Hello My creative Friends And Community,
How are we doing today, thank God it's Friday!!,
There comes a time in everyone's life when you need to go extra miles all alone, creating some positive energy. It's also a time for reasoning and thinking deeper and through in your mind, to make some sensesible new things happen all alone and by yourself..
At such times, it could be that nobody is around to help you achieve your aim, or someone you had hoped on is far away from your reach or totally unavailable. At this awkward point too, it's compulsory that you have to try either your skill or a new skill just to achieve your purpose....
These and more are ways to create positive changes which levels us up to becoming a creative person by then acquiring new skills or sharpening up our already owned skills to boost our energy.
Today, i want to talk about, and show us how i, all alone completely turned a huge heap of cassavas into garri.
My children had left for their different places of learning, i mean they have left home to their different boarding schools and dometries. I and my husband were all alone at home and I decided to harvest my cassava turning them up to garri for the family's food bank. On that particular day, i had decided that morning to process cassava to get some garri, you know you have to pull the whole cassava plants one after the other till you are okay!.
Steps taken to process cassava tubes into garri.
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Get to your cassava farmland with your basin or wheelbarrow for carrying your harvest home
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Start pulling your cassava trees to get the tubes.
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Arrange your cassava tubes in your carrier ready to go home.
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Start peeling the outer back with your kitchen knife, you now see the whitish colour that's what you need.
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Wash all your cassavas with water and arrange again for grinding process.
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Push or carry to the grinding man near to you.
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Bargain your grinding price, let them grind for you.
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Bag the cassava flour into your bag ready for draining.
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Your grinder man will compress the bags for starchy drainage.
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Three or four days gone, take it home sieve and fry.
Make up your wood fire, place your frying pan on the fire.
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As it gets hotter, add the cassava flour and start frying.
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Add your red oil to get the garri red in colour or do not add red oil to get it white garri.
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Your garri flour is very ready now.
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Make it in a bowel with hot water and enjoy with any soup you desire.
My cassava farm
My cassava farm from where i harvested.
My harvested cassava tubes ready to turn to garri.
After which i started peeling them, washed them and pushed them through the wheelbarrow to a cassava grinder in our neighborhood to grind them up to achieve my garri purpose. After which, i have to bag them up before setting the bag into a compressor engine to remove/ release the starchy water from the cassava bags because they were three different bags of cassava i finally made that day!!.
My peeled cassava tubers being washed and pushed with wheelbarrow to the grinding shop in my neighborhood.
Turning cassavas into garri is a hard work to do. But very beneficial for the family, i had to go through the process, i'm glad to have achieved it.
Grounded cassava from the grinding machine.
My cassavas being grinded in grinder's shop.
The grinding machine in the grinding shop in my neighborhood.
The grinder man doing the grinding job for me after which i paid him.
Doing anything by yourself is a creative way to have a life time skills.... It makes one to sit-down to think, reason, observe, deveop your inner mind and then create. Bringing up someone's completeness as creators like God himself, remember, God told us that he has made us...
The humans in his own image, and in his likeness... He went further to say, "we are gods". That's to say, we can do extra things than he had done. Creativity is no doubt inbuilt, embedded into us, the human beings. Let's keep achieving creativity!!
Transferring the grinded cassava into the bags for the starchy drainage. You know cassavas has starchy water that can even be used as clothes starch, to boost the beautiful looks of some clothes. But that's a story for another day!
This is the compressor machine that drains out the unwanted starchy water from grinded cassava tubes.
After three or four days, you get the cassava bag to process garri, by sieving them through a big cassava siever to get a smoother cassava flour that will be fried into garri which is the last stage of the process.
My bags of cassava ready to be sieved to get the cassava flour for frying to become....Garri !.
Dried cassava being sieved with the big siever in other to get the flour that will become garri.
Already sieved cassava flour ready for frying.
Natural red oil being added into the frying pot to give the garri a red and oily colour. If it's not added the garri will become white after frying. ( Not magic but real).
Cassava being fried to turn to either red or white garri.
Stiil being fried to achieve the garri process.
Yeah, my regards to everyone for your time and presence in my blog.
This is my first time in @hivediycommunity, thank you all for accepting me here.
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All pictures are mine.
@ijebest.