Letter to Julia 20131207

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

Good Saturday, my dearest Julia and Erin.  How are you feeling today?  Are you keeping safe, and taking good, loving care of yourself?  Please remember how important you are and are to me, Mrs. Global.  I am waiting as you are waiting, for Allah to bless me with the wealth I need to give you a happy and secure married life.  That is my commitment, and I intend to keep it, inshaAllah.  Please pray with me that it will be soon.

I had fish for dinner.  It's the mackerel I bought for Batty and I had to finish it, now that's he's all grown up and gone female hunting.  The pulverized shrimp I told you about worked excellently for stuffed wontons, and it was OK for stuffing grilled fish.  It took only 2 days in the cooler for it to ferment, and after it did, it can only be used as flavoring or fond.  Which I did use for fond for my fried rice, which would have been perfect if I hadn't put too much water in the rice when I steamed it.  It was the normal amount of water I normally use, but this time I put bamboo shoots into the rice when I cooked it.  Perhaps that was what made it sticky.  I plan to work on my dessert skills in the future.  I don't eat much sweets: I prefer savory over sweet, but I want to make many chocolate goodies for you, because I love you, and I want to pamper you.  Please don't overdo the munchies, and we will have a home blood sugar level tester, inshaAllah.