I have a five year old son and I am raising him by God’s grace to be the best version of the man God has destined him to be. He loves to cook with me in the kitchen and I encourage him. We made this meal together and even made a video tutorial on How to wrap moinmoin in leaves.

I found a very inspiring post on Facebook that underscores the reason why I’m raising my son this way.

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“I’m Worried About Our Sons” By Funke Egbemode.Today, I am worried about our sons, today’s young men. I am truly worried and every mother should pause, take a closer look at her sons and daughters and answer this question: are you empowering your son for the journey ahead of him? Answer truthfully, after all you are alone and you don’t have to let anybody hear you…I think Nigerian mothers have not done well raising future husbands and fathers. Let’s admit it, we have not scored above average, that is if we achieved average at all…Take a closer look at your beautiful daughter and your handsome six-footer son. Who is better prepared for the task ahead? I know some of us had realised this and have done better than others but most Nigerian mothers need to buckle up. Our sons are not what they should be and we cannot have the society, the country we desire when we put unprepared men and overgrown boys in positions of authority….
It does not matter if women produce the next president and Central Bank Governor and 20 state governors, the achievement of Nigerian women and indeed women world over will continue to be marred if all we do is churn out half-baked and ill-equipped fathers and husbands. We cannot have a great society with just great women and less than good fathers and husbands…
We’ve got to pay more attention to the quality of sons we are raising. Are we teaching them the right values? Have you sat your boys down and told them only impotent men beat their wives? Have you told your sons a man is not man if he cannot provide for his wife and children, that the ‘dangling modifier’ in between his legs is not really what proves his manhood in his home? …Since this year’s theme for International Women’s Day is ‘Inspiring Change’, let us change the way we have brought up our boys. Let us teach them the skills that will protect their manhood beyond using the right condoms.

(First published in 2015)Culled from Facebook

Recipe

Ingredients

(Serves 8 – 10 persons)

• 3 Cups peeled Beans (Honey Beans/ Oloyin)
• 1 cup Vegetable oil
• 1/2 Cup Crayfish
• 1 or 1 1/2 cup Stock (Fish/Beef/Chicken stock)
• 4 Hard Boiled Eggs (chopped)
• 500g Mackerel; boiled and Flaked
• 1 onion
• 8 (or more) Jalapeño (Bawa) Pepper or Tatashe
• 2 Bouillon Cubes (Any season cubes of your choice e.g knorr) *or to taste
• Salt (to taste)

Procedure

• Blend Beans with pepper and onions to a smooth paste

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*Tip* Don’t ever add tomatoes to your beans paste, the acidity in the tomatoes will not allow you paste to set when it is cooked

• In a mixing bowl, stir the paste well for at least one minute, then add your oil and stir thoroughly until the oil is properly incorporated.
• Add your salt, crushed bouillon cubes and mix thoroughly till well incorporated.

• Add the flaked fish and chopped eggs and mix.

• Scoop into your leaves. (I have a preference for wrapping moinmoin in leaves as it is not only tastier in leaves, it is healthier. Cooking your food in polythene bags allows harmful chemicals to seep into your food. You can cook your moinmoin in ramekins)

• Add about a cup or two of water to a pot, (preferably a steaming pot) if you don’t have a steaming pot, you can place the stalks you cut off from your leaves at the base of the pot as a barrier between the water and the wrapped moinmoin . Place the wrapped moinmoin on the barrier, cover the pot, you can cover it with more leaves to trap steam , cook on medium heat for at least 20 – 25 mins.

• Your moinmoin is cooked when the paste sets and it’s cooked all the way though.

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