Pounded Yam; My Favorite

The best food subject is one that absolutely got me excited. For so many reasons. Talking about it alone is like eating it again and more so I’m happy to share it with you guys. Food are chemicals that nourish the body and make the body healthy. We have different things food does to our body. Some are to give carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, minerals and water. The combination of all these gives the body a balanced diet and makes it stronger and healthier.
Apart from all these, we take food before showing how joyous and happy we are when we taste them. It’s not only to fill our belly or to nourish our body. But we take them because we love it. I think jollof rice is one of the foods people take because of the love they have for it. We all have the best food or variety of food we love. For some of us, it’s just a food, for others a combination of food.

For me, I love pounded yam and egusi soup a lot. My loyalty to this food has been since I was a kid. As an Ekiti indigene, that’s what we love best and my parents loved it enormously.At least in a week, we do eat it at least 3 times, especially on Sundays. It’s like a ritual when we eat it. Since it’s a cultural food and it blends well.One thing I love pounded for is the stress you go through before you can eat it.

Before the advent of popular machines, yam was pounded by mortar and pestle. It’s a very rigid exercise and it can't be done by lazy people. You have to pound with strong hands for some time.This in a way makes the pounded yam very deserving. I can’t remember the first time I tasted it, how I must have felt about it and if I loved it immediately. It’s been a long time and that must have happened when I was a kid.But one thing I can say now is I don’t mind having to eat it everyday for the rest of my life. I would love to recommend pounded yam to a lot of people who can try it.

For those that don’t mind heavy food. Pounded yam is heavy. But it compliment with its sweetness.

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