Friday, July 17, 2020

Sambal tumis ikan bilis scrambled eggs on pita bread

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are healthy and happy, and enjoying yourself.  I can see that you are way more social than me, especially on your birthday, so please be cautious.  Please make sure you neutralize even the slightest sensation of a cold or flu symptom immediately.  I've been so lazy lately because of pizza.  Well I am lazy, just lazier than usual.  Yeah pizza is important, but today I had to get back to doing yard work now that I've run out of cheese.  So I cut the grass in the evening.  Whenever I have to do labor, sometimes I can sound like Scarface.  Labor brings out the Scarface in me.  Maybe it's because I watched "Scarface" the other night.

Some people like to experiment with food by eating centipedes and bats, I like to experiment with simple ingredients.  Maybe it's because I'm poor.  Maybe if I had lots of money, I would start eating centipedes and bats.  Anyway, I recently made a successful batch of "sambal tumis" (chillies, onions, and "belacan" (fermented shrimp paste) blended then fried in oil until saturated) and I had some dough left over from making pizza.  So I made some pita bread.  Then I had some crunchy anchovies which were so hard because they were cheap, so I ground those up into a powder.  I refried that, added the "sambal tumis", then scrambled a couple of eggs over that.  It turned out quite well.  I also had half a chub of ground beef left over from making sausage, so I mixed that with chopped onions, cooked potatoes, salt and pepper.  I took out half of that mix then added curry powder and spices to make a mix for stuffing curry pups.  From the mix that didn't have curry, I made a couple of burger patties.  I fried those up and it turned out quite well as well, so for dinner I had a couple of beef and potato burgers.