Friday, August 17, 2018

The kitchen rules the day

Hi Honey!  How's it going today?  How's business?  I'm sure everyone is fussing over how beautiful you are.  Oh!  I'm feeling a bit neurotic today.  I spent most of the day fussing over the kitchen.  It started off slowly, I had planned to make fried noodles for lunch.  But all I had available for the sauce is chicken broth.  The noodles turned out fine, but I much prefer a blended chillies sauce.  Then I had the idea of using parsley in combination with scallions: I had some parsley left over from making marinara sauce, which was awesome by the way.  The marinara sauce tasted like a blended gazpacho.  Very flavorful.  But parsley in fried noodles, though it tasted fine, kept on getting stuck between my teeth when I ate the noodles.  Not that scallions don't get stuck either, but parsley is more annoying somehow.  I won't do that again.  So I had to go out and get dried chillies, so I can make an all-purpose hot sauce like "sambal tumis" (which is blended chillies, onions, and belacan (fermented shrimp) fried in oil until saturated, if you don't remember).  It was too hot during the day and I had to attend Friday prayer anyway, so it was evening when I was available to go shopping for the few more items I needed for the kitchen.  Rush hour.  So I'm feeling a bit neurotic right now.  I had planned to make bread to eat with the last of the curry, but the marinara sauce is so good I want that instead.  But my Mom gave me some corn on the cob, so I'm full for now.  Maybe later.

Natty honey, from the looks of your teeth, I think you have been eating too much candy.  Those are milk teeth?  I'm going to have to stick my fingers into your mouth and wiggle each tooth to see which ones are loose, so I can pull them out, so you won't grow up having crooked teeth.  You're not going to like that one bit.  Please make sure you floss regularly and wash your mouth with salt water to dissolve the sugar.  I'm afraid I don't have any candy in the house.  Would you like some chocolate instead?  I have a huge bar of chocolate in my cooler.  All girls love chocolate.
OK OK I'll go out and get you some candy.  Not the hard candy, that can break your teeth.  This stuff only gets stuck to your teeth.  You know what?  I think kids need to earn the right to eat candy and sweets.  Do a good deed before you get any candy.

Nice boots, by the way.