What can you do if you cannot cook?

I have always been the kind of person who paid little or no attention to the kitchen, but must also mention that I love eating, not a chronic lover, but I do alright eating good foods. I don't fancy eating outdoors if it's not urgent or perhaps, I am away from where close ones or I can make my food.

At a stage, when I was done with my secondary school education, my family members started making commentaries on how I was going to survive living in the university without knowing how to cook so well.

Get your mind off it!
Not like I didn't know how to cook.
I always knew within myself counting the many times that I had helped my mummy and siblings in the kitchen to cook, but never had I prepared food for the whole family asides from jollof rice, yam, beans, and some fries too.

On a good day, I decided to surprise them.
My mum already bought foodstuffs for soup and instructed my elder sister to cook it.
She was to start cooking by noon so I had to resume earlier.

It was a tough time I must confess, having to cut/squeeze the vegetables, pound lots of pepper and prawns, the ede too, and all other processes that I had to put in balance.

After several hours, I was done cooking. Normally, it would take my sister less than an hour to do that.

They were left speechless when I called out that they should gather in the dining so I would serve them.

My dad was first to go, he swallowed down a bolus while the rest watched.
He stood and stretched his hands which were sticky at me to shake as he congratulated my cooking skills. The rest couldn't believe the taste of the soup when they tested it.

Now I am finally in school and bet me, I make the best tasty meals.