Coconut alfredo sauce

Hi Natty honey!  How are you today, beautiful and precious lady?  I hope you are doing and feeling great.  What was that?  Did you suddenly feel a moment of satisfaction?  I love it when God grants us glimpses of happiness.  Just remember that perfection is a reward for the righteous in the next life.  Since we are still stuck in this world, then it's back to the toil after the brief high.  What's for dinner?  My Mom gave me a box of low fat milk a while ago, and I've been figuring out what to do with it.  I didn't want to drink it, and it's so thin I can't cook with it.  Then a few days ago I harvested some coconut, and I thought I would try to make coconut alfredo sauce.  It's simple really, just blend the coconut meat in the low fat milk until smooth, then cook it as alfredo sauce.  So dinner was spaghetti in coconut alfredo sauce with chicken.  It looked and tasted good, so I think it works as an alfredo sauce.  It tastes like alfredo sauce without tasting cheesy.  Does that make sense?  I made it too thick, though.  So thick it sticks to your lips.  I also made too much.  Alfredo sauce is a heavy sauce, and I made too much, I couldn't finish it.  And pasta doesn't keep as leftovers, so I had to throw the rest away, which is a shame because it really did taste good.  Next time I'll thin out the sauce and use less.  I made 2 pints of sauce for only the cost of the garlic and half a tomato (the coconuts were from my yard), compared with 2 pints of heavy cream which would run at about RM30 or more.

Sunday is BLACK!

Beans

Hi Natty honey!  How are you today, my beautiful lady?  I must say that you are looking as wonderful as ever.  You and your buddies look comfortable- neither hot nor cold.  Not much of a clothes dilemma there.  Here, it's hot.  It's disgustingly hot.  The days are hot, the nights are hot, my room is hot, and I have to work in here.  Ya Allah, please have mercy on me!  I am amazed that my cats seem to handle this heat better than me.  They don't even bother for water.  As for me, Canada sounds really good right now.  It's so much easier for me to heat up than to cool down.

But I can't afford air conditioning, and right now my food budget sucks.  So I have decided to master the art of cooking beans.  Beans are cheap!  Lentils, red beans, and soybeans.  My first project will be chili, and I have some red beans soaking right now.  I think I'll try to make tofu.  I actually have some soy lecithin, which I bought 8 years ago, thinking I could use it to harden chocolate.  It's actually for hardening tofu, so I'm going to give that a try.

The fridge rules the menu

Hi Natty Honey!  Wow, that's a pretty lake you have at school.  With nice, calm waters.  Is your heart and mind as calm as those waters?  I hope so.  But it's the modern world, and everyone's in a big hurry to go nowhere!  I had a very busy day today.  I left home as early as possible to pay some bills, bought some groceries, then spent a very successful morning in the kitchen.  The lite soy sauce I made turned out very close to the original.  The curry I made (after harvesting some coconuts) turned out awesome.  The fried rice I had for lunch, made with my lite soy sauce mix, was perfection.  But my food budget is still poor, and I have to make sure I use everything up.  There was still some "sambal tumis" (onions, chillies, and "belacan" (fermented shrimp) blended then fried in oil until saturated) left, and it had to be used up immediately.  I was thinking eggplant, so I had to go to the big supermarket on the other side of town, because it was almost sunset, and it was the only one selling fresh produce this time of day.  But eggplant was RM6.99 a kilo!  Yikes!  I was prepared to spend only RM4 a kilo for eggplant.  But tomatoes were RM3.79/kilo and hot dogs were RM2.79 per pack.  So that's what I spent my money on.  I made "sambal tumis hot dog with tomatoes and onions", with steamed rice.  Alhamdulillah.  I was having such a good day in the kitchen today, that my dinner was a success as well.  Very delicious.  Here's a snapshot of it.  You can see the hot dogs under the tomatoes and onions.

Lite soy sauce

Hi there, Natty honey!  What are you up to?  Did you go to the UN summit?  Neither did I.  I had to sing.  It looks like next month is going to be tight on the food budget again, so no pizza.  **Sigh**  I did try to make my own lite soy sauce today.  Well, I didn't really "make" it.  Soy sauce is basically fermented soybeans, wheat and water.  Plus salt.  I figured if I just buy the thick stuff, then I can make my own lite soy sauce by adding salt and water.  The thick soy sauce is sweet, so I'm guessing that it has no salt.  So I gradually added water to a tablespoon of sauce, until I got the right consistency.  Then I guessed the amount of salt I had to add.  It was very close, except the original stuff had a certain sourness to it.  Is that what fermentation is?  Fermentation adds sourness?  Hm.  I think I'll try to add some vinegar to it next...

Hi Honey

Say, that is a beautiful snapshot.  Very artistic.  You must really list the photo credit for everyone to know, because it is truly a work of art.  I have been a musician for a long time.  38 years.  I thought I would be dead at 30, but God keeps saving my life for some reason.  Now I certainly have work to do, and I put my trust in Allah to protect me and my loved ones.  😃  It may seem to the ignorant that I have a death wish, but what else is there to do?  My mission is to please Allah with music.  InshaAllah.  While it is true that I have a terrible weakness for pretty blondes, I have already chosen who I want to marry.  You should know by now what a stubborn person I am.  However, Allah still hasn't granted me wealth enough to be and stay married.  It's really up to you if you have the patience and faith enough to put up with me.

By the way, did you know that I am color blind?  Red green blindness.  For today's outfit, I felt like being an American high school dance queen.  I think I matched the colors acceptably.  The shoes match the lipstick.