BBQ beef ribs

Hi Honey!  How are you, my beloved?  I'm doing great today, alhamdulillah.  I just had BBQ beef ribs for dinner.  Oh so good!  Nothing matches the experience and the flavor of BBQ beef ribs.  Messy food, probably not the healthiest food, but oh so good!  Even the experience of having BBQ ribs in a restaurant is enjoyable- I recall many a good meal at those "All-U-Can-Eat" beef rib places.  Not all of them are the same- some of them slap some BBQ sauce on boiled ribs then microwave them.  Ugh.  Lately my butcher has been selling nothing but veal.  From his chatter, I gather that the tenderness of veal competes with imported beef, local beef is very lean as it is.  But veal, though tender, is leaner than that.  But the ribs are nice and fatty, which is the only cut of veal I probably like.  Now the locals have realized that ketchup makes a splendid BBQ sauce base, and the supermarkets have been frequently out of the big packets of ketchup.  So I bought chilli sauce instead, which is chilli flavored ketchup, and made my BBQ sauce from that.  I didn't want to travel far for the ingredients, so I improvised with local staples.  So instead of butter, I precooked the ribs in "kerisik" which is coconut shavings reduced in oil until brown, and garlic.  Add the chilli sauce, sugar and soy sauce, and we're in business.  I sat and enjoyed my BBQ beef ribs right at the grill in a cloud of smoke.  I'm a sight to see, sweaty and covered in charcoal dust and splatterings of BBQ sauce.  Messy food.  Happy food.  Then I washed it down with a freezing cold bottle of Coca Cola.  I didn't take a snapshot though- I can't handle a camera and deal with BBQ ribs at the same time.  But you know what BBQ ribs look like, right?  What we need is "Smell-a-vision".  No Honey, I don't know how to make vegetarian BBQ beef ribs.

Hi Natty Honey!  Do you want some BBQ beef ribs?  It's as good as pizza!  How's business going?  Are you having tons of fun?  Natty, people have been bitching at me that models can't act.  I want you to prove them wrong.  Take acting classes and more importantly, get in tune with your emotions like a good singer.  Express your emotions more.  Use your Instagram, and express your emotions to me.  Anyway, today the computer wants you to watch "Star Wars Episode 2: Attack Of The Clones" from 2002.  I like this movie, but I admit it's kind of cheesy.  You don't need to be a good actress for this movie.  Just be pretty and wear the right clothes.  Big name movie, though.  Some people got their "big break" from the Star Wars episodes 1 and 2.

Monday

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  How's work coming along?  Let me guess what you're up to...  Are you doing something for GQ?  Are you in Germany?  Just guessing.  I'm still kind of grumpy, and emotionally wasted from being angry.  I hate being angry.  But the weather has cooled down, because it rained just now.  So I'm pleased about that.  Alhamdulillah.  I spent the morning paying bills, bought a gallon of bleach and some gasoline, then got a haircut.  Nothing special on the menu.  I don't have much of an appetite, so I bought some pastries from the supermarket, then for dinner I had some fish sausage from the night market.  That's it.

Hey Natty Honey!  Has life gotten crazy and hectic again?  Are you having fun?  I sure hope so.  Don't forget this when you work, you are MY girl.  Do you like comedy?  The computer wants you to watch another movie.  Please do so, Movie Star.  The computer is very clever about these things.  From 1971, Monty Python's "And Now For Something Completely Different".  It's basically a collage of comedy sketches from the TV show.  Why are there mostly guys in comedies?  Hm.  You can't fake good humor, you know.

Full moon

Yeah Erin, I know who the culprit is.  We all know her, but I'm not naming any names.  I want you to know that it's you I will marry inshaAllah.  I love you, Erin.

I'm in a bad mood today.  Not it's not that, it's something else.  I woke this morning knowing it is going to be one of those days.  Maybe it's the full moon.  Dinner wasn't that great.  I'm still clearing out my fridge, and using up the food that's in there.  I had eggs on rice with spicy eggplant for dinner.  Nothing exciting.  Filling.

Hey Natty Honey, how are you?  Are you working today?  I know the past week has been very emotional for you, but everything will turn out great inshaAllah.  You will be fine Honey, I'm with you always, and I won't abandon you.  So hang in there, and have a great time OK?

Full moon

Hi Honey!  How's it going today?  How's work?  I'm sure you are busy as usual, so please take good care of yourself, and get plenty of rest, and don't forget to pray.  I would like to remind you to not treat your enemies as friends.  Avoid them if you can, but if you are forced to socialize with them, then don't treat them as friends.  You can be gentle and polite for that is the Mercy of Allah, but don't trust them.  Dinner today is nothing special.  I still need to make room in my cooler, so I had fresh tortillas with scrambled eggs and spicy eggplant.  Well the eggplant didn't smell off, so I decided to eat it.  I didn't take any snapshots though, dinner was unphotogenic.  But tasty.

Hey Natty Honey!  Oh, are you working this Easter?  You are looking so awesome!  I like Armani stuff: if I had money, I would wear Armani.  It would be nice to not have any enemies at all, but that's not real life.  Our enemies are the enemies of Allah, and those who oppose our marriage.  That's pretty blunt yeah, but not so simple.  So hone your senses.  Today the computer wants you to watch a movie.  "The Usual Suspects", from 1995.  Erin referred this movie to me, now the computer wants you to watch it.  It's a very brainy movie, even though it's just a bunch of guys.

What's for dinner?

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  I hope you are feeling and eating well.  What's for dinner today?  As I mentioned yesterday, I have a lot of eggs in my cooler.  So I have to finish those off.  Plus I have some potatoes that need to be used up, so for dinner today I made eggs and hash browns.  But I don't have any sauce of any kind!  No ketchup, nothing.  Well I still have some salad cream and vinaigrette, but I don't want to put that on my eggs and hash browns.  So I heated up some spicy eggplant.  Of course I can make an omelet!  But I wouldn't get that smiley face on my plate.  It looks more like a bearded smiley face, though.  I should have given it better lighting.

Hey Natty Honey!  I'm still thinking about that photo, that camouflaged with the forest photo that you posted.  Could it be that you DON'T want to be the center of attention, that's why you retreated to school?  I find that hard to accept.  You want to be a movie star, that's the impression I got.  Anyway to continue about the X-Men, I was obviously a huge X-Men fan back in college.  My life was from one issue to the next, pathetic huh?  Lonely geeks fall in love with cartoon women.  My favorite X-Woman used to be Rogue, then I found out she was an atheist.  Ugh.  Now my favorite is Rachel Summers.  Marvel would never give her a lead role, but it doesn't matter.  I like her as she is, even though she is more emotional than intellectual.  I would never survive her rage fits, though.  I would get fried.  Check out that comic book body.  Would you like to do a superhero movie?

The Chicken Nugget and Egg Theory

Hi Honey!  I'm home!  Well, I am at home, I hang around here all the time.  I don't go anywhere much, I stick to my routine as work that someday soon Allah will have me married to my Honey.  InshaAllah.  How are you feeling today?  What's for dinner?  I have a lot of food in my cooler right now, and I'm not flat broke at this time.  But I have to empty out the fridge a bit before I buy more food.  Let's see... what goes first...  Those chicken nuggets and burgers have been in there for a while.  I bought a tray of eggs last week, so I have a lot of eggs.  I tested all of them, they were all good (if an egg floats, it's no good).  So I had chicken nuggets and eggs for dinner.  With no dipping sauce whatsoever.  Sounds bland, right?  It gave me the runs!  What happened there?  Oh, it was the Coca Cola that I slammed after cutting the grass, before I had dinner.  I can only drink Coca Cola on an empty stomach or with snacks, and not with a full meal.  Sounds odd, but that's a sensitive tummy for you.  Coke is sooo good though, after hot work and served freezing cold out of the freezer.  Ugh, I want more...

Hey Natty Honey, did you like the X-Men movie?  Most hits nowadays are superhero movies, I guess that would be an actor's "big break", so to speak.  Which sucks, because action movies are so dangerous.  And I don't want a scratch to happen to my Natty.  The Uncanny X-Men comic books of the 1980's made the X-Men famous enough to make movies, and that's the era that I truly love.  The artwork back then wasn't very sexy though, so I was riveted to the stories.  Nowadays, you must have the ladies look absolutely voluptuous.  For the pleasure of teenage male nerds who spend most of their time alone in the bedroom.  Ahem.

Oh how mysterious

Hi beautiful Erin!  Hi Honey, how are you today?  How's work?  I guess everybody is trying to hook you up.  Wow, they are so concerned about their American Princess.  Well, I hope I am man enough for you.  Let me flex... (flexes).  Hm... I skipped workout today.  But I did labor in my mother's garden this morning, and I did cut the grass in the evening.  Ah, maybe you would like some dinner?  I made spicy eggplant with mini pocket breads and crunchy anchovies.  It was yummy!

Hey Natty Honey, I've been pondering on that photo you posted, the one of your sitting on a short wall and blending in with the forest.  Maybe you should have kept working, then you would definitely be standing out.  But whatever the case, you will not be able to escape attention because you are MY girl.  MashaAllah.  Anyway, today the computer wants you to watch "X-Men: First Class" from 2011.  This is my least liked X-Men movie.  I don't really like any of the X-Men movies, except maybe "Logan", compared to the comic books- they really should have been truer to the Uncanny X-Men comics, issues 120-213.  The best years.  The best stories.