Peppersoup from scratch INGREDIENTS Freshly boiled and seasoned Meat/Chicken/Fish depending on what you are making. Pepper soup seeds - (2) Big ones you crack open, (1) garlic-ike seed and (2) long black thin ginger-spice with seeds inside (will try and get pictures). Meat/chicken/fish water (from the boiled meat). 1 Tomato (optional). 1/2 Onion (optional). Pepper (ata rodo) or ground pepper. Pepper soup seasoning/any seasoning cubes. - Pour some or all of the meat water (depending on your desired quantity) into a blender and crack open the two big pepper soup seeds and add to the water. Also add the garlic-like seed. Make sure the blender is filled up to a point where you know it wont spill whilst blending. - Blend these together (you will be able to tell the seeds have blended because the water turns creamy whit). - Sieve this blended meat water on to your meat (this is sieved so that the bits and peels of the seeds are seperated from the actual mix) in a pot. - Cook this until you can tell it is cooked and in the process add the seeds in the two long black spices into the pot while the soup is cooking. (These long spices are usually hard to crack so it is advisable to soak them in hot water to soften and crack them open with a wooden spoon to get the tiny black seeds out). - Add some pepper and crayfish to your taste. - Also add your peppersoup cubes or seasoning cubes and let it cook till you get a good flavour. NOTE - all the seeds are required in order to get the right taste. You can also use ready-made pepper soup powder as an alternative. Another alternative is the stew-y peppersoup where you will need pepper, tomatoes and onions. These are blended and added into the pot at first as though you were cooking stew and then the above step by step procedure is also followed. You add your meat water to the blended tomatoes/pepper to make your peppersoup. One's discretion is used in determining the ratio of pepper/tomatoes to meat water. To email me your recipe or for any questions or comments, please email aramide (at) gmail (dot) com