Rice salad

 Hi Natty!  How are you feeling today, my love?  Please try to keep calm, just relax and enjoy the ride OK?  I hope you are keeping yourself safe and healthy.  I was driving home from the gas station yesterday, when I noticed this guy sitting alone at the side of the road, selling produce.  I knew instantly that it was home grown produce because of the shape of the eggplant: factory farm eggplant is always perfectly straight and shiny.  So I turned back and checked on the prices.  I went home with over 3 kilos of produce for RM5.  I love home grown produce!  I bought tomatoes, eggplant, and large hot peppers.  And the guy threw almost a kilo of green beans in my bag.

I'm not really attracted to fresh greens because I hate salads, but the girls loved my salads when I was forced to make them at the pizza joint.  My mother told me to just fry the green beans.  I bit into one just to taste what it was like raw.  It wasn't bad.  Tasted refreshing, like jicama.  When I fried the green beans, it was only for about 20 seconds because I didn't want to lose the snap and the flavor of jicama.

The locals are absolutely hooked on steamed white rice with mixed entrées.  I find this eating to be extremely tedious and laborious, because each entrée can be complex and messy, and has to be prepared and seasoned individually.  So if you were to have 5 entrées on the table to go with your rice, that would take at least 3 hours and a stroke to prepare, not to mention the time and labor of eating and cleaning up.   I thought perhaps I could simplify the entrées then serve them on white rice like a salad, with a salad dressing.  So I fried the eggplant in chilli powder and salt, the chicken in salt, pepper and sesame seeds, and the green beans with just salt, put them together with the rice like a salad, and used the hot sauce I made this morning as the salad dressing.  I got the entire task done in about half an hour, including steaming the rice.  I'm happy to report that it was a success.  Dinner was filling and refreshing, with a lingering taste of fresh, clean water.  I think you would like this, Natty.  You can even use Italian or Ranch dressing, and it would taste great.

Someone kept shooting Mary Unknown7's avatar today, so she wasn't able to be on stage at the karaoke joint.  The stream was unaffected though, so I doubt anyone outside of Second Life would have noticed the disturbance.  We went back to the karaoke joint an hour later and the varmint had cleared out, so Mary was able to sing and dance onstage again, and show off her new boots.