Just another average day

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, my precious love?  Say, that pink suit looks fabulous on you!  I hope you are keeping safe and healthy over there.  It's just another average day here for me.  I spent most of it in the kitchen.  The other day I was at the grocer, and eggplant was on sale.  It was a bit shriveled, but I could still use it.  I managed to score almost 2 kilos for RM2 which is great, because usually a kilo costs RM8.  But I had to cook it up and freeze quickly, which I fried in some oil until soft but still kept its shape.  I didn't need to spice it up but I did, which was a mistake but not an extreme one.  Spicing it up put a limit on what I could do with it later.  I put a small portion in the cooler which I used over the past couple of days with grilled chicken and burger.  Today I made "sambal tumis" (blended chillies, onions and "belacan" (fermented shrimp paste) fried in oil until saturated) but with added eggplant in there.

The eggplant made the stuff closer to green than red.  It didn't help that I use green hot chilli peppers instead of red hot chilli peppers, but the green stuff is cheaper.  The eggplant made the sauce creamier, which went well with crunchy anchovies and sunny side up eggs on steamed rice.  I think it was a success, alhamdulillah.  Want some?