Ginger

 Hi Natty!  How are you?  I hope you are healthy and enjoying yourself.  It's Wednesday here, and it started out a bit wet but it soon got hot again.  I like it better when it's cold.  I bought a bunch of ginger yesterday, I thought I would experiment with it a little.  Ginger is costlier than I remember, so I planted some in a pot.  That will take a few months, but they are able to grow around here.  I wanted to make ginger chicken, so for the fond I chopped up a lot of ginger with some garlic, browned it up, then added the chicken.  I made it too salty though, but with white rice it balanced out.  I figure I don't even need it to balance out, just cut out some salt and everything would turn out on the sweet side.  Next time, perhaps.  You want to try some ginger chicken on rice?

 

Qur'an 20201028

 In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

47.  And they used to say, "What!  When we die and become dust and bones, shall we then indeed be raised up again?"

48.  "And our fathers of old?"

49.  Say, "Yes, those of old and those of later times."

The Inevitable 56:47-49

Bedbugs

 First off, I would like to apologize for the interruption during Mary Unknown7's set today.  The Internet cut out at 45 minutes into the set, and returned at 25 minutes left to go in the set.  Service seems to have been restored right now, so tomorrow there should be no such interruption inshaAllah.

Hi Natty!  How are you, my darling?  Is it nice and warm over there, or have you gotten soft from being away from Canada and it's still too cold?  It was a hot day today, you must come and live in the tropics with me since you like warm weather.  Do you get bedbugs in LA?  You can get bedbugs anywhere especially in hotels, I think they're attracted to body heat.  I discovered a couple of days ago that my rug has bedbugs.  I like to sleep on the floor, as you know.  I find that sleeping on the floor to be more comfortable, and it's great for my lower back.  But I don't exactly sleep on the floor, I have an old rug that dampens the cold of the concrete floor a bit, and that's where the bedbugs were.  So I fumigated the rug on both sides with industrial strength pesticide that I use on crops, and baked in under the sun for a few hours.  I also sprayed my bedroom floor.  At least I don't sleep on a bed, that would be more difficult to fumigate.

Monday

 Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope all is well with you.  It's Monday here for me.  It rained all morning, and I even felt slightly cold, which is very rare for me around here.  The rain stopped in the evening, I guess God gave the night market a break.  I didn't do much of anything other than prep food.  I didn't want to do any yard work, I just didn't feel like it.  Instead I made some shepherd's pie pups (basically curry pups without the curry.  I've become weary of curry seasonings.  I could have added peas or even broccoli, but I didn't want to go out), and watched "One Punch Man", which I intend to watch more of after getting my usual responsibilities out of the way.  Anyway, you take care my love OK!  I love you!

Popular

 Natty, I'm more than happy that you are having fun!  I guess you are still in LA, and that's fine as long as you keep yourself safe and healthy.  That's a nice clean street too, but I'll bet the scenery changes at the end of that street.  You like being popular, huh?  Just don't forget who you are: you are MY girl, and I love you.  I will marry you, inshaAllah.  I'll have to admit that it's all the same to me, because I don't really enjoy socializing.  Popular or unpopular, they're both the same to me.  Anyway, please don't party.  LA is a party town, and partying is very dangerous.  And just because you don't go to parties, being popular means the parties follow you.  The same rule applies: DON'T PARTY.  All it takes is ONE mistake, and the Public Eye wants you to make that mistake so they can be entertained.

I made fried flat noodles for dinner tonight.  Below is a stock photo of the stuff, I made mine with chicken.  It's a different dining experience from the fried noodles I made last night, and a different flavor.  And today, I ate the whole wok.  It's less filling than the other stuff, Honey.  Did you want some?

Fried noodles

 Hi Natty!  How's it going?  I hope you are healthy and peaceful.  Is there a lot of snow there yet?  It doesn't snow here, but it's not obnoxiously hot right now.  The weather cooled down since morning.  Allah gave me the evening off again, so I made my dinner slowly.  It's actually very enjoyable and relaxing to cook very slowly.  Of course it's not practical in food service to take an hour to fry up one wok of noodles, but I don't work in a restaurant anymore!  Thank God!  I don't miss it one bit.  So I made some fried noodles.  It looks like the stock photo below, but my version has chicken and prawn fritter cake along with the other stuff.  There were a couple of grains of sand in the plankton sized shrimp that I used to make the prawn fritter cake, but otherwise my fried noodles were a success.  At least it stopped me from over-eating.  I could put down a whole wok of noodles.  Not easily, but I could.  Next time if I'm going to use that kind of shrimp, I will need to take the time to sift it first.  Want some fried noodles?  My recipe is great when cold.  Perfect for a midnight snack.

Relax

 Hi Natty!  How are you?  I guess you are very excited at this time, but you must learn how to relax.  Yes Honey, you are becoming very popular.  But don't let it control you.  Fame isn't worth the suffering it causes.  Relax and you will enjoy your success more, and have more fun.  You wouldn't go surfing all tense and stressed out, would you?  Relax, and ride the wave.  Not that I actually surf, but I do a lot of spiritual surfing, if I may call it that.  And life is so much more enjoyable when I relax.

Are you hungry? I made rice for dinner.  Rice is more laborious than bread for instance, not just from prepping and cooking but eating and cleaning is extra labor.  So I prefer rice with only one dish.  Like teriyaki chicken.  That's what I had for dinner.  My teriyaki chicken recipe is getting more stable.  I like it with raw onions, but we could use tofu or something else you like.  Teriyaki chicken doesn't go with hot sauce.  It becomes salty, because the hot sauce overwhelms the teriyaki sauce.  So if you like it hot and spicy, you have to use fresh hot peppers.  Want some teriyaki chicken?