Sunday, November 12, 2017

Sardines

Hi Honey!  How are you doing today?  I hope everything is going smoothly and absolutely great for you.  I've never been much of a one for the holiday season myself, even when I did spend the money to buy presents for the occasion.  Now I simply adhere to Muslim and family occasions, not just for because I know who I am.  Which makes you much more marketable for the USA than me.  Sure Allah makes me somewhat interesting mashaAllah, but you are my wife inshaAllah.  You're my girl.

Hey Natty honey!  How are you?  I do hope you're not overworking.  How's your big brother, by the way?  I don't really keep up with what he does, my interest is in you.  I sure hope he goes for being the next James Bond like I suggested.  In showbiz, there's really no respect for the piddly roles so he might as well go straight for the big parts.  But he is his own man, of course.  No Honey, you are not upstaging him.  You're getting married, that's all.

Sardines are certainly common man's food, but unlike mackerel the bones are soft, and can be chewed.  The innards are easy to eat too.  Sardines go great with tomato sauce, thus they go great with Italian food.  You must have noticed that sardines are cooked and canned in tomato sauce.  So I went to buy a can of sardines for my dinner.  There were so many different brands to choose from, the 400g portion ranged from RM3 to RM7.60.  But what's the difference?  Sardines are sardines, there is no gourmet type of sardine- it's just an ordinary fish.  The price difference must be in the sauce the fish is cooked in, and whatever sauce it is, the sardines must impart most of the flavor.  So I bought the cheapest brand.  For dinner, I had baked fettucine with sardines in a spicy marinara sauce.  The black sprinkles you see are crispy sardine bones.  Delicious!  Filling!  Alhamdulillah!