Hi Natty! What's going on? How's your weekend so far? I hope you are keeping safe and healthy. Not much going on here, just the usual. Except my Mom gave me the day off today, so I had a leisurely morning. She also gave me a chicken, so I portioned that out. It's not cat food anymore, the cats have upgraded to rice and fish, so I portioned it out for my own taste: boneless chicken breast, legs and wings skin on, all other skin put aside (usually for artificial bacon bits), liver sliced up, and the rest of the carcass divided into 5 personal serving soup stocks. So I was itching for noodles and soup for lunch. I simmered a portion of the soup stock in miso broth, using the chilli bean oil. I let that stew with basil, green hot chilli peppers and cubed tofu until the time was right, then added some anchovy bouillon (with MSG). I pulled out the soup stock, peeled off the meat I wanted, then gave the rest to the cats. I used rice vermicelli for the noodles, and served it piping hot with dried fried onions, hot sauce, artificial bacon bits and salted radish. The saltiness could have gone overboard, but it didn't: it was just right. A little bit of honey would have made it perfect, but I forgot. Getting the saltiness right for noodles in soup takes practice. My noodles in soup was complex when I wanted simple, but it was a success so alhamdulillah. Dinner wasn't as successful. I made a tofu omelet with sautéed sliced chicken liver marinated in tamarind, with fries. I used the chilli bean oil for the omelet, so it didn't harden very well. Even my fries didn't harden very well, I don't know what's up with that. I think I got the debris at the bottom of the batch in my bag of frozen fries. And I should have used beef liver, not chicken. I'll have to grade dinner as "strange but edible".
