Sunday Rice

In the average Nigerian home, there's an unspoken culinary code. Jollof is for parties while rice and stew is for sundays. The kind of hunger that accompanies church goers back from church on sundays is indescribable. Sometimes, the pastor forgets that people are hungry and stretches Sunday service so long that even the most devout member is almost brought to his or her breaking point

So Nigerian mothers have come up with different ways of solving this problem. The stew may be prepared on Saturday night so that only the white rice and probably plantain or whatever else is to go with the rice is prepared on Sunday. This helps in saving  a lot of time and ensuring that the family's patience is kept in check.

Another way is to have the member of the family responsible for cooking lunch on Sunday attend an earlier service than the rest of the family. This way her service ends in time, and she can go back home to prepare lunch before the rest of the family gets back.


Once the Sunday rice thingy has been resolve d, and is everybody full to the teeth, another Sunday afternoon unspoken code sets in. Siesta.