SLC-S28/W1-"Local Taste, Global Twist!"| Creative Breakfast Challenge!

ninapenda (77)modin Steem4Nigeria • 22 days ago

Welcome to this week’s culinary journey!

Before I begin my work proper, I want to express my sincere appreciation to the Steemit team for finding my topic worthy. Thank you for the recognition and for creating a platform where creativity is celebrated.

In this challenge, my goal is to blend creativity, culture, and simple cooking ideas that anyone can try from home. Each week, I explore a new theme, experiment with flavors, and learn something fresh about food from different parts of the world.

This week’s presentation reflects not just the recipe, but the inspiration, the process, and the joy behind creating it. I hope it brings you as much excitement as it brought me while preparing it.

Now, let’s dive into my work for the week.

Week 1: “Reinvent a Local Breakfast”

This week, we are starting with something simple, familiar, and close to you. Everyone eats breakfast and we know breakfast as a simple meal for the morning.

This week is all about:
✨ Creativity
✨ Experimenting
✨ And seeing food in a new way, not your regular.

Have you tasted "french toast" with pepper sauce? It's delicious! French toast is prepared using bread; mix your eggs and milk with a pinch of salt and whisk. Deep the slices of bread into the whisked egg and fry in low heat. Flip over and remove when it's golden brown.

Pepper sauce is prepared with everything used in cooking stew! Just make sure it has a little oil and not dripping. A glass of milk is adequate to go with this combo!

	Preparing french toast

	My final presentation

French toast didn’t actually begin in France as we were told. But a long time ago, people in Ancient Rome were simply trying not to waste food. So when their bread got old and hard, they soaked it in milk and eggs, fried it, and suddenly it became something warm and comforting.

As years passed, this simple idea traveled across different countries. When it reached France, people called it “pain perdu,” meaning “lost bread,” because it brought old and lost bread back to life.

From there, it spread around the world, and everyone gave it their own twist. Today, we call it French toast, and even though it started as a way to save stale bread, it has become a sweet, enjoyable treat loved everywhere. Just giving you a little secret on how to save stale bread.

You don't need to buy something new, just make use of what is available for you and let the creativity flow!

_{Task for the week}

• Share your before-and-after dish (original + global twist) you can add the processes and give the name and origin of your local breakfast.

• What global element or idea did you add to give it a twist?

• How did the new version taste or look compared to the original?

• What inspired your creativity in this dish?

_{Week 1 Challenge Guidelines}

• Be intentional with your creativity, presentation and the global twist.

• Show your processes and the final presentation with your username and date attached.

• Answer all questions explicitly!

• The title of your entry should be| SLC-S28/W1-"Local Taste, Global Twist| Breakfast!"

• No two participants are allowed to reinvent the same dish. Everyone must create something unique, as there are so many dishes available.

• Post your entry in steem4nigeria community or on your blog!

• Use tags as follows; #creativebreakfast-s28w1 #steemexclusive #creativity #food #country. You can use #burnsteem25 tag if you have set 25% beneficiary to @null.

• Your word count should be 500 minimum.

• You must check out other users entries to give meaningful feedback and interactions, that way you learn new twist pattern from others.

• Use clear images and all images should be the author's own no copyright source! You can add a video (optional).

• Promote on socials like X and share your link in the comment section of your post.

• Drop the link to your entry in the comment section of this post and invite 3 active friends to participate.

• This contest is flagged open from Monday (17:11:2025) 00:00 UTC, and closes at 11:59pm UTC on Sunday (23:11:2025).

_{Contest winner's reward}

At the end of each week, I will choose six (6) top users who have followed the rules. These users will get an upvote from @steemcurator01 as a reward for their effort!

Generally, users may also get a random upvote from SC02. However, receiving an upvote is not guaranteed!