"Beans Porridge and Custard: A Delicious Combination of Sweet and Savory!"

Greetings to everyone in the Hive Learners community. I decided to join the Hive Learners creative Sunday today and I hope you find my content interesting.

To most people who follow my blog, they would have read in a few of my posts where I mentioned that I work from home. It is one of the best things that has happened to me this since late last year because I don't have anyone bossing me around. Nobody likes being bossed around honestly.

I still work for someone though and have my boss but I work at my home conveniently and don't deal with the struggles of the road and traffic anymore hehe. That's by the way.

I had plans to cook beans porridge and enjoy it with a nicely prepared custard during the weekend. However, I knew I had to finish the job I had in front of me first before going to buy the items and finally prepare it.

When I finished what I was doing, I got dressed and went to the small market near my house.

Also, I had made a list of what I needed to buy, which were the black eye beans, palm-oil, crayfish, pepper, checkers custard, and milk.

I had the rest of the ingredients at home, and they are the onions, salt, and seasoning cubes.

As soon as I got home, I made sure my cooking utensils were clean and the kitchen was okay for me to start cooking.

This post is going to show the steps I followed in cooking my porridge beans and how I prepared my custard. Watch the video attached to this post for the live and detailed explanation of the cooking. Thank you.

The ingredients I used for the beans porridge were;

• Black eye beans
• Crayfish
• Onions
• Palm-oil
• Pepper
• Salt
• Seasoning cubes.

The steps to cooking the beans are below;

• I started by selecting the beans so as to take out the first and stones that may be in it.

• After selecting the beans, I poured some clean water into the bowl of beans and rinsed it to make it clean.

• I transferred the beans to my pot and poured in some clean water which was slightly above the level of the beans. I covered the pot with the lid and left the beans to cook till it was tender.

However, while I waited for the beans to be soft, I adjusted the water by adding some more a little above the level of the beans so it would cook well. It simply means that you can adjust the water when necessary.

• When the beans were tender enough just as I wanted them, I poured the chopped onions into the pot of beans, I added the crayfish, pepper and seasoning cubes and salt.

• Lastly, I poured the palm-oil into pot beans that were still cooking and covered the pot with the lid for another 5 minutes on medium heat.

Finally, I turned off the heat, left the beans to cool for another 5 minutes before mixing it with a patular.

People usually enjoy bean porridge with sweet potato, plantain or yam. However, I will enjoy mine with custard and milk.

For the custard, I had my powder checkers custard ready, the milk and the sugar. The images below shows the custard powder before and after I poured water in yo mix it.

The steps to preparing the custard are below.

• I poured some of the checkers custard powder into the plate I intended to use for it.

• I added an equal volume of water to the custard powder in the plate.
  The next thing I did was to mix them together smoothly.

• I brought a moderate amount of water to boil, when the water was boiled, I poured on the mix while stirring well.
  Finally, I added in some sugar and milk to taste.

Below is the image of the beans porridge and custard. I did not spend so much time getting this beans ready. Also, the black eye beans seems best for me considering the fact that after cooking for a little while, it became soft.

Before I end this post, I would like to tell you to use a big bowl when you want to make your custard so it doesn't end up being so thick. I hope that you enjoy watch my video and reading this post.

Thanks for your time.