Flat noodles

Hi Natty!  How are you, my angel?  I think you are doing a splendid job, being a beacon of light to all out there, especially the children of the music.  I can't interact with them, but at least they have you.  I love you.  I hope all your business is easy and fruitful.

I made fried flat noodles for dinner, if you want to try some.  It's nice and soft, and easy on my jaw that had been attacked by the lentils recently.  I used to eat fried flat noodles all the time when I was a kid, from this Chinese man at the restaurant by the old theater.  I would watch him cook up the stuff, and until this day his technique is what I use today.  That guy is dead now, and the restaurant is now a hotel with glass doors.  I love fried flat noodles with cockles, but I'm grown up now and I know what cockles eat so I avoid them.  I can get somewhat the same flavor with chicken.  First, fry up some chopped garlic in about a tablespoon of oil on medium low heat.  When the garlic is brown, add some hot sauce then mix in  When hot enough, add some sliced chicken.  Next add the flat noodles.  Flat noodles here come greasy when fresh, because the grease keeps the noodles separate.  If it's not greasy, it's not fresh!  Dump the noodles into a strainer, rinse and separate them with your fingers.  Then add it to the wok.  Add soy sauce to color, then mix gently by folding.  The soy sauce isn't enough to flavor (unless you use a lot) so I sprinkle some anchovy bouillon.  When hot enough, make a crater in the middle of the mix, turn the fire down to low, and crack an egg in there.  Add salt or soy sauce to the egg, stir and wait for it to harden.  Then fold the noodles over the egg, mix in then shut the heat off.  Add the vegetables on top, and mix them in one last time, just like a salad.  It's ready.  Serve it.

Qur'an 20200613

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

65.  Say, "Truly I am a warner: no god is there but the One God, Supreme and Irresistible."

66.  The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all between, Exalted in Might, Able to enforce God's Will, Forgiving again and again.

67.  Say, "That is a Message Supreme."

Sad 38:65-67

Emotion

Hi Natty!  Oh, was I wrong?  Are those emotions still raging?  I'm sorry.  Don't you worry about a thing, my precious Princess.  Everything will work out just fine for us inshaAllah.  I want you to know that I love you with all of my heart, and I will marry you inshaAllah.

Are you hungry?  Dinner tonight was tortillas, stuffed with teriyaki chicken and mushrooms, with a local bitter bean hot sauce I bought from the corner restaurant.  I marinated the sliced chicken breast in a simple teriyaki sauce- sugar and light soy sauce.  First I fried up the sliced oyster mushrooms and ginger, medium heat!  Don't shrivel them up, just enough to make them soft then pour the teriyaki sauce over it.  Yes, the sauce you marinated the chicken in.  Make sure the mix is hot enough, then cook the chicken until it turns white then it's done.  The tortillas were a bit fat today.  That's my fault, I made the dough balls too big.  I couldn't roll them out any thinner or they wouldn't fit on the cooking pan.  I'm full.  Boy, I'm stuffed.

Chili

Hi Natty!  How are you feeling today?  I suspect your emotions have calmed down somewhat, and you are back in the real world.  Well, I hope you are feeling healthy and happy and everything is easy going for you.  I have had enough of lentils!  Today it's back to chili.  I had a pot of beans slow cooking off and on the stove top for the past couple of days.  The key to great chili folks, is to focus on the beans.  Make sure the beans taste great THEN add the beef.  It's a good idea to wash the beans first before you soak them.  I think I did that, I don't remember.  Don't throw away the water that you soaked the beans in!  Cook the beans in that water!  Add more water as you need it.  I haven't been adding tomato paste into my chili lately, but today I decided to do that.  I dunno, I just felt like it.  The result is, that it tastes like chili.  It doesn't taste unique, it tastes exactly like chili.  It tastes so NORMAL.  I think those lentils really messed with my head.  And my jaw.



I have a white rose bud in my yard growing bigger.  When it blooms, I'll have Mary Unknown7 start wearing other colors again.  Sunday is still black, though.

Lentil soup

Hi Natty!  How are you today, Honey?  I hope all is well with you.  It's just the usual going on here with me.  Today is laundry day.  I cut the grass in the evening.  I had ramen for lunch and *sigh* lentil soup for dinner.  The lentil soup was thick and rich, it was so good that I could cry.  I'm not crying because it was good, I'm crying because I'm despondent.  I'm despondent that I couldn't find anything new and exciting to do with lentils, and got the best results by sticking to old-fashioned ways.  I didn't have to do much to it.  I bought some curry at the corner restaurant and heated it up, blended the lentils then added it to the curry, cooked it at low heat and stirred often to stop the lentils from sticking to the bottom of the pot.  That's it.  Yes, the cats were fighting over it.

Defeated by lentils

Hi Natty!  How's it going today?  Is everything cool and peaceful?  That would be awesome.  So what would you like for dinner?  Lentil salad?  Yuck!  Lentil burgers?  Are you kidding?  I have to concede that at this time, I have been defeated by lentils.  Lentils will NOT be prepared in non traditional ways.  Maybe in the future, I might have the stubbornness to try again.  But today, my jaw still hurts from yesterday's lentil fiasco.  I couldn't sleep last night because of the pain.  I had to take a couple of aspirin just to get a couple of hours sleep.  Of course, I was scheduled to do some chores early in the morning.  That and I just bought a kilo of snack peanuts that I can't eat.  It's a good thing I portioned the peanuts out into mini ziploc bags, and put them in an air tight metal container.  Hopefully they won't be stale when I attempt to eat them again.  So what's for dinner?  I managed to choke down a couple of sandwiches.  But tomorrow, it looks like soup.  Lentil soup.

Lentils

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are happy and healthy.  I have a feeling that you are socially idealistic nowadays.  Which is fine, of course.  It should be be public knowledge how beautiful you are and that you are benevolent and generous, but perhaps you are feeling extra loving lately.  I wish I could be there with you to absorb your love because it would be great for me.  But since I'm not there with you, please use your brains when interacting nowadays.  It is more likely that people are feeling the exact opposite of you.  I would hate it if you got suckered, and I would hate it even more if you got suckered into self-destruction.  So please be cautious.

The fridge rules the menu in my house.  Yesterday I bought a loaf of bread, a 5 pack of ramen, some mushrooms and fish cake.  I was planning to cook ramen for lunch, then my Mom gave me some fish curry.  So I ate that with some bread, and I just had mushroom cheeseburgers with fries for dinner.  I'm full!  I have a bag of lentils in my cooler that has been sitting there since the start of Ramadan.  That's more than a month ago.  Lentils are cheap, but the problem with lentils is that you can't get too creative with it, or it will taste like hell.  My mother has a great recipe for lentil fritters, plus there's lentil soup/curry and hummus, but what else?  I thought I would take it as simply as possible, and fry up some lentils with salt.  Simple, right?  It tasted great hot fresh out of the wok with a nice texture, but after a few it became unpalatable.  Not chewy, gritty, hard or anything like that.  It hurt my jaw.  Right at the right hinge.  It still hurts right now.  What do I do with these damned lentils?