Happy New Year

 Hi Natty!  Happy New Year!  I hope all is well with you, and you are healthy and confident.  I suppose it's time for you to head back to SoCal.  I don't really like what's going on over there, so please be careful and try to avoid people.  2020 turned out to be a drag, but I believe the law of balance that things have to get worse before they get better.  Thus 2020 wasn't all that bad for me.  Imagine the people who get richer and more powerful every year.  Death is going to really suck for them.

I finally used up all the soybeans I bought, was it 2 months ago?  A lot of failures, but I have 4 types of miso and soy meat as successes.  So the New Year's dinner is veggie burgers!  I went to the burger specialty store in the morning to get burger buns, but they were closed.  For some reason, around here you can only buy burger buns from burger stores.  It wasn't always like that, only ever since McDonald's came into town I estimate.  No big deal, I like sliced bread better for making burgers.  Something about soy meat makes great burgers.  It's not the same as real beef, but it's not worse either.  With mayo, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, onions and ketchup, my veggie burgers were a success.  I think I'll have the same thing for dinner tomorrow.  You want a veggie burger?

Them bones

 Hi Natty!  Are you excited?  Well, it's the New Year!  You are so beautiful, you are MY girl, and I love you!  2020 was a big change for sociology, don't you agree?  Don't you worry about a thing, my beautiful darling.  Everything will work out absolutely great for us inshaAllah.

When I was the supermarket yesterday, I saw some beef marrow bones going for cheap so I bought a pack.  Australian beef.  Usually you would season and bake this stuff, then spoon out the soft gelatinous marrow with a tiny spoon as a delicate treat.  I used it as a soup base for my noodles.  It was successful, as you may expect beef stock would be.  Plus there was still a good amount of meat sticking to the bones.  I guess I would be wasting the marrow this way, but my noodles in soup was good so it wasn't a waste to me.

Busy day

 Hi Natty!  How are you today, my love?  I hope all is well with you, and you are having a good time.  It's been a busy day for me today.  I had to get up early and do my laundry.  While waiting for that, I did my usual chores like cleaning up after the cats, collecting water etc.  After my laundry was done, I took my motorcycle to the repair shop to replace the chain and sprocket set.  Then I went to the bank and to the water utility to pay the bill.  After that, I went to the supermarket.  I got home barely in time for Mary Unknown7's vocal session.  After that was done, I went out again to a different supermarket then to the hardware shop to get a new tube for the wheelbarrow.   Yeah, I blew the tire again.  I get so tempted to put more air in that tire, when I know I shouldn't.  I just got home, and am waiting for them to call the sunset prayer.  Nothing going on in the kitchen today, I ate out for lunch and bought takeout noodles for dinner.  Next after the prayer, I need a nap so I can do computer work until midnight.  Whew!

I don't particularly like too much glossiness on the avatar skin because I think it makes her look like a plastic doll, but other people really seem to like that.  What do you think?

Beautiful girl

 Hi Natty!  How are you, beautiful girl?  You know that I love you with all of my heart, right?  I hope you do.  I'm going to marry you inshaAllah.  I hope you are healthy and having a wonderful time over there.

After cutting the grass this evening, I planned to try making a fake steak out of soy beef.  I bought some Enoki  mushrooms yesterday, thinking I could duplicate the grain of the steak.  Unfortunately, it was a failure.  No, I'm not serving any of my experiments to you!  You only get the perfected stuff, because you are my Princess!  Oh, you want to taste?  It's gross!  The inside was a gooey mush of mushroom goo.  Perhaps if I deep fried the mushrooms first to dry them up, it might work better.  But no, not with soy beef.  Soy beef is only good for making burgers.  But maybe I might be able to make chili with soy beef...

Eggs

 Hi Natty!  How are you, my darling?  How's the food?  Lots of turkey left over?  Turkey sandwich?

Making poached eggs made me realize that I haven't cooked that many eggs in my life.  Sure I've cracked countless thousands of eggs to put in dough or batter, but I never had to cook eggs on a per order basis.  Here I found a really nice video about cooking eggs, a knowledge everyone should learn, especially potential mothers:

I found some hieroglyphs that made excellent backdrops for Mary Unknown7's photo shoot.  I took care not to choose anything that depicted anthropoid figures.

Poached eggs

 Hi Natty!  How are you?  How's your health?  Many people get lonely and depressed during the holidays, and it affects their health.  I don't really celebrate public holidays because I have to work everyday, so it's all the same old day to me.  I hope you are healthy and happy.  I want you to know that I love you with all of my heart, and I will marry you inshaAllah.  Don't you worry about a thing, everything will work out just awesome for us inshaAllah.  You are so beautiful.

It occurred to me last night that I have never cooked poached eggs, so I decided to try making some for dinner today.  So I looked at YouTube, and followed the video above to poach 3 eggs to go with my fry bread.  My first attempt failed, but I managed to get the other two correct.  So I had a couple of poached eggs and one somewhat poached egg swimming in curry with fry bread for dinner.  Would you like some poached eggs, my love?

Sundays are supposed to be black but I forgot, so Mary wore gold instead.

Adventures in fake beef

 Hi Natty!  Did you enjoy your Christmas?  You have a beautiful family.  And that is a beautiful ugly sweater.  I didn't see your sister there though.  Was she the one with you in the bathroom?  That can't be...

Allah gave me the evening off, so I used the time to make soy meat again.  This time I added mushrooms with the blended soybeans.  The mushrooms didn't make much of a difference, though.  What made a difference was limiting my use of flour.  I used brown gravy mix to get the flavor of beef.  Technically, brown gravy mix isn't vegetarian because it has beef fat in it, but I am not a vegetarian.  I just happen to have a lot of soybeans right now.  The soy burgers were a success, but I couldn't get all of the whiteness of the soybeans to go away.  It was inside the burger, so you can't tell from the stock photo above.  But definitely, soybeans are better than tofu at making burgers.  My next attempt will be to make soy steak.

This was supposed to be a red and white outfit, but it turned out pink and white.