That "smoky" flavor

Hiya Nattikins!  How are you doing, my beautiful precious one?  I hope you are doing great and everything is going great for you.  I'm doing all right.  It's been raining, so I stay indoors because I can't do any yard work.  I did my laundry in the morning.  Then I had BBQ chicken for lunch.  I have a little stone grill (stone lasts so much longer than metal) and I fire it up on the porch, out of the rain.  Ah, one of life's little pleasures, is grilling chicken and eating it at the grill.  It must be a primal sight, my squatting at the grill gnashing at a drumstick with a cat beside me waiting for scraps.  But few things are as blissful as eating fresh off the grill at the grill.  I have a great routine at making BBQ sauce.  I won't list the procedure here, but somehow it has that smoky flavor without using artificial smoke, like mesquite flavor etc.  One may argue that since I'm sitting at the grill, I get that smoky flavor from the actual smoke of the fire.  But no, the flavor is there even before I light the fire.  I don't know how it happened, it's just there.  One of life's mysteries.  I love BBQ chicken.  The tryptophan helps too.  I always sing well after enjoying a BBQ chicken lunch.  It calms my heart and thenceforth, my voice.  Want some?

More soy

Hi Natty honey!  How are you feeling today, my dearest?  I hope you are feeling peachy and having a wonderful time being you and doing what you do.  I'm posting this letter earlier than usual.  It's Tuesday, and I have to be at the mosque before sunset.  Nothing much going on here today.  This month's food project is the mastery of legumes, namely red beans, lentils, and soybeans.  I still have a lot of soy meal from my last experiment.  I always have to experiment with food, to gain knowledge, and to not bore myself.  Soybeans have no gluten, so the soy meal disintegrates when cooked.  So I added flour and eggs, with chopped salt, garlic and onions, to make a batter for croquettes.  Croquettes are normal food around here, usually with shrimp.  Soy meal is actually quite tasty when cooked, after all they make veggie burgers with the stuff.  So my soy meal croquettes turned out quite good.  I need to make the batter thicker next time.  Oh so healthy food.  But greasy.  Maybe I can make a sweet batter and bake it.

Anyway, I have to go!  Please take care, and have tons of fun!

Hi Natty!

Hi Honey!  Hi Sweetheart!  Did you hear me say hi?  Hi!  HI!!!  😄  You're so beautiful!  I love you!

Nothing much to report today.  Just the usual stuff, chores in the morning.  Then made my lunch, it was fry bread with chicken liver curry.  After voice training, I took the chainsaw and cut down all the big trees in what was my mango farm.  I ran out of motor oil, and I can't afford more for another 10 days, so there are a couple of trunks still standing.  Good thing I took off the crowns first.  For dinner, I bought some fried chicken over at the night market.  I guess I'm too lazy to cook my dinner.  How about you?  What are you having for dinner?  You never share your menu with me!  I would love to know.  Anyway, I hope you are doing and feeling great, my beloved.  Please take care.

Sunday

Hi there Natty honey!  How are you feeling today?  Are you having a nice weekend?  Hugs from me too, my love.  I do so long to embrace you, my beautiful lady.  Today is Sunday, and I always have a busy Sunday.  Sunday mornings I have to clean my mother's bedroom.  Then I make my lunch, and try to get some rest before voice training.  In the evening, I continued to dismantle the mango farm.  Only the bigger trees are left, so I will fire up the chainsaw tomorrow inshaAllah.  I kind of spent too much time so I was late making my dinner, which was steamed rice with fried chicken and onions.  I just barely got done with the sunset prayer before I post this letter, and now it's almost time for the night prayer.  I don't wear a watch.  I used to check the time on my cell phone, but that died recently so now I don't have a watch nor a phone.  😊  Anyway, I hope you are having tons of fun.  I love you, and have a great weekend.

Sunday is PINK!!!

Power and excitement

Hi Natty honey!  You look so beautiful, my beloved.  And you look like you are getting wealthier.  That's awesome.  Please try to save the money you are making now for when you are older.  If you can, do it without consuming interest.  Perhaps people are pressuring you to spend money, but you don't have to do what they say.  You don't.  Perhaps people are pressuring you to get plastic surgery, perhaps they say that you should "share the wealth" or something like that.  Don't buy into that.  You don't need plastic surgery.  Even as you get older, you don't need it.  Don't worry about me, I won't abandon you inshaAllah.  Age with dignity and grace.

Power and excitement is sexually arousing, we all know that.  If it seems to follow you everywhere, I'm sorry about that.  It's the nature of our marriage.  Holding back your lust is painful, I know that.  I really do, you not the only one who has to abstain.  You might think that I'm used to it, but we never get used to it.  Pain turns into anger.  We either abstain, or we don't.  You are a grown woman, if you were to give into your lust, nobody will stop you.  But it won't be something you would be able to hide.  Please have faith in our marriage, and be patient.  Protect your chastity.  I love you, and I will marry you inshaAllah.

Announcement of Endorsement Withdrawal

Hi Natty honey!  How are you feeling today, my precious love?  I'm guessing that you are feeling better and calmer.  I want you to have a great life and a great time, because I care for you so much, my beautiful Princess.

I have decided to officially withdraw my endorsement of the Perlis Harumanis mango.  I had spent 5 years or more nurturing trees and raising them in the compact space which is my yard, and had gotten the knack of it.  Although this type of mango is expensive, I was more into the research and endorsement of it.  My baby mango trees, though growing in peat pots, had become thick, strong, heavy and dark green.  I managed to fit at least 30 trees in my front yard, and it was looking like I was seriously able to make a productive mango farm.  This land belongs to my aunt, and she wants me to remove the mango farm.  At first my usual stubbornness activated, and I didn't relish the thought of giving up on my attempt of making a "halal" (lawful) income.  Then I realized, "What if I were successful?"  30 trees bearing quality fruit means about 20 grand a year income!  Of "halal" money!  That would certainly attract greedy relatives.  So I saw my aunt's logic, and I will destroy the mango farm.  But more than that, I'm supposed to be a chick singer, not a mango farmer.  It dawned on me that I'm actually too lazy to maintain a farm.  I would rather be making love to my beautiful wife.

Soy

Hi Natty honey!  How are you feeling today?  I hope you are feeling good...  Please don't be sad, because I love you and care for you.  How about you watch a movie?  The computer wants you to watch a movie today.  "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006).  I'll admit that's it's not much of a distraction, but it is a good movie.  Lots of beautiful shoes in this movie!

My food project for this month is to conquer the legume, specifically lentils, red beans and soybeans.  Because beans are cheap!  I had soaked half a kilo of soybeans yesterday, and they bloated quite nicely.  I wanted to try making tofu and soybean milk.  I didn't get much tofu from half gallon of soy milk that I had.  It didn't harden up too well, either.  It tasted like tofu, but it was a tofu pudding.  Perhaps I used the wrong lecithin.  The label didn't say magnesium chloride, so perhaps that was the problem.  My soy milk turned out gritty.   My strainer wasn't fine enough, I needed cheesecloth.  What I had left was a lot of soy meal.  I had never cooked with soy meal before, but I do know that it's supposed to be healthy food.  Cattle eat it.  So what could go wrong with soy meal, garlic, onion and salt?  I fried it up and it tasted good, but it disintegrated.  I guess I need to add flour.  How do they make veggie burgers and soy cheese?  I need to study that, they must add some real flavoring somehow.  Anyway, my stomach didn't like it.  Health food.  Back to the old drawing board.  I still have a lot of soy meal left.  The good news is I didn't spend a cent today!