Friday, December 7, 2018

Standard recipe plus extra stuff

Hi Natty!  How are you doing today, Honey?  Keeping busy, I suppose.  You shouldn't be feeling disoriented or overwhelmed, because you've been on this crazy carousel for a couple of years already, you should be used to it.  If anything, I think since you're such a resilient girl, you might be getting too tough or paranoid.  Don't be too strong or paranoid Honey, it will ruin your fun.  Do what you can to keep safe, then let go.  Pray, and put your trust in Allah.

I couldn't get back to sleep after the dawn prayer this morning, so I went to the market downtown.  There wasn't much choice for fish.  I hope it isn't from overfishing, but most likely there is another temporary market happening somewhere else.  I wasn't there for fish anyway, I was getting some fixings for fried noodles.  I also bought some tofu and won ton skins, so it's going to be stuffed won tons tomorrow inshaAllah.  I had some extra vegetables in my cooler like cucumber, broccoli and mustard greens plus the meat I got from the chicken carcass I stewed yesterday, plus I bought a kilo of fish balls.  Fish meat shaped into balls then precooked.  😑  So I put all that extra stuff into my usual fried noodle recipe.  Alhamdulillah.  It turned out OK, certainly not unpalatable.  It tasted like fried noodles with extra stuff.  I guess I'm just used to its being a certain way.  I guess some people would charged extra bucks for that.  But next time, I'll just stick to the standard recipe.