Monday, April 12, 2021

Ramadan starts tomorrow

 Hi Natty!  How are you ?  I hope all is well with you and your family.  I am doing OK over here, I'm still stuck in the kitchen, getting ready for Ramadan which begins tomorrow.  Fasting during Ramadan is a task for Muslims only, folks.  So if you are not Muslim, then don't fast.  Not even to be polite or show support.  I cannot be married to a non-Muslim so Natty, I need you to memorize this prayer by the time we marry inshaAllah.  In Arabic, please.

I wanted to make "sambal tumis" (chillies, onions, and "belacan"(fermented shrimp paste) blended then fried in oil until saturated) to go with rice, eggs and crunchy anchovies.  I made too much spicy mango dip aka "garam belacan" the other day.  "Garam belacan" is "belacan", sugar, soy sauce, chillies and crushed peanuts.  So I thought I would dump some of that stuff into my "sambal tumis".  After blending it with fresh onions and rehydrated chillies I tasted it, and hey!  It's pretty darned good!  I don't need to even cook it up nor add grease!  So I packed it up and stuffed it into the freezer.  My cooler is full right now, especially the freezer.  It's still full from the 6 kilos of fish I bought for Adolf Kitler.  Well, 3 kilos.  I used half already.







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