Saturday, August 24, 2019

All that cooking and still no dinner

Hi there, my wonderful Ladies!  How are you feeling today?  I hope all is well, and smooth sailing for you.  It's a relatively nice day here, not too hot.  I did go out in the morning to get some eggs, chillies and gasoline, but otherwise I spent the whole day pretty much in the kitchen.  All that cooking, and I still haven't had dinner yet!  My first project (besides lunch, which was chicken curry burritos) was "sambal tumis" (blended chillies, onions and "belacan" (fermented shrimp paste) fried until saturated) which I often talk about because I always use it, as you one day will experience inshaAllah, because it's a great go-to hot sauce.  I put it in pretty much anything and everything.  I don't often make desserts, which I'm sure I will make many desserts when we marry inshaAllah, because I don't have much of a sweet tooth.  Today, I made a first attempt at "pulut seri kaya" (glutenous rice with a top layer of coconut egg jam).  It wasn't perfect, it's my first attempt, I think I know what I did wrong and next time should be better.  I bought the stuff ready for the fasting month, but I only got to it now.  It's very sweet.  It smells very sweet.  Then I made chilli and garlic sauce, for hot wings and dipping fried won tons or chicken nuggets and such.  Peeling all that garlic took a long time.  It's very tasty though.  Garlic is very tasty but oh so unromantic.  What, no kiss?  Finally, I made my dinner which is chicken noodle soup, with rice vermicelli for the noodles.  It has mint, chives, garlic, onion and honey in it.  It's still on the stove top, I haven't had the chance to finish it yet.  So I'm going to eat my dinner now.  Want some?