The all-white cat is not all-white after all

Hi Erin and Natty!  How are you?  How's business?  Your bosses should give you the big bucks for all the attention you're bringing to their business.  Please stay fit and keep calm.  We've only just begun.  I had a coconut omelet for dinner, and it turned to be successful.  Kitchen work actually exasperates me.  Maybe it's brain damage from working at the pizza joint all those years.  Or maybe I got it from my mother.  But it is a blessing, since I like my own cooking and I'm not likely to poison myself, so alhamdulillah.

Little Yoolie is growing up so fast!  She's not squeaking anymore!  I should have recorded that squeak when I had the chance, but it didn't occur to me to do so, and now the squeak has become a high pitched meow.  You don't know what you've got until it's gone.  😢  It seems that the all-white cat is not all-white after all: she has a dark snout.

At first I thought it was dirt, and I tried to scrape it off, but it turned out to be the color of her skin.  So the all-white cat is not all-white after all, but she's all wight with me!  Yoolie came to me the night of those 2 mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, what was that... the 6th of August?  Then on the 9th, a tornado ripped off my roof.  But the all-white cat of death has a dark snout.  What does it mean?  That the cat of death isn't the cat of death if she were well fed?  Then it's a good thing she's fat.  She's a chubby kitten now.

Attention

Hello again, my wonderful Ladies.  How's life treating you today?  You're not getting too much attention, are you?  Your bosses will only love you more for that.  Well, try to relax and enjoy your success.  You are beautiful, and I love you.  Somehow I wish that fame equals bucks, but that's not the case.  I didn't even have enough money to buy a chicken today.  It's not really that I didn't have the money, the ATMs for my bank were down.  That's what I get for getting a bank account...  I guess I will have to buy that chicken tomorrow maybe.  I did have RM10 in my wallet, so instead of a chicken, I bought a 6 pack of curry pups and a bag of prawn crackers.

Monday

Hello there, my most beautiful Ladies.  How is your day today?  I hope you ar feeling great, and having a wonderful time.  It's Monday today.  Nothing special going on, plus everyday is Monday or Tuesday or whatever day because I work everyday.  Alhamdulillah.  There is a night market over at the crossroads every Monday, but I don't have the money to spend on it so I cook my own food today.  I still have all that coconut to finish.  It made a great coleslaw for lunch, and I boiled the rest.  It softened up nicely with boiling, but I haven't experimented with it yet, I just used the water to dilute my home made generic curry paste, which I had with a few tortillas.  The tortillas here are good lately, so I don't mind eating that all the time.  Otherwise there's not much to report, just still alive alhamdulillah.  You take care now.  I love you.

What am I going to do with all these coconuts?

Hi there, my precious Ladies!  How are you feeling today?  Nice and cool, I hope.  What with all the hubbub and activity, let's keep our emotions under control.  It's a nice cool day over here.  I like cool weather, so I'm in a good mood right now.  My parents were hankering for young coconut juice.  Young coconut juice is medicinal, they say.  So I had to take that big heavy saw on a long stick, and harvest some young coconuts.  These coconuts were a bit older, so they didn't produce that much juice.  It usually takes 3 coconuts to fill up my Mom's jug, but today it took 6.  That's because the juice turns into meat as the coconut matures, so that means I had 6 coconuts worth of meat!  What am I going to do with all these coconuts?  I'm sure you are familiar with mature coconuts, the meat is too hard to bite into so people usually scrape and squeeze it for milk.  These coconuts are not at that stage yet, one can still bite into them and eat them raw, with the texture of carrots.  I had over a kilo  of meat, I can't keep it all in my freezer!  It's full of chicken!  Then it occurred to me, why not treat it like a staple, like rice or bread?  Except that young coconut doesn't need to be cooked.  So I diced them all up into 1 or 2 bit Lego sized chunks, stuffed most of it into my freezer, then fried some up with some onion and a diced up burger.  With just salt it wasn't flavorful enough, so I added a spoon of my generic curry paste and that turned out to be the perfect flavor.  So I ate that all up, and now I'm waiting for my stomach to perhaps have a bad reaction to the food.  It shouldn't inshaAllah.  The coconut could be smaller in size though and use some softening up, so tomorrow I'll maybe blend the stuff into hummus then steam it like rice, and we'll see what happens.

How do you like my Mom dress?  Big pockets for carrying kittens!

All that cooking and still no dinner

Hi there, my wonderful Ladies!  How are you feeling today?  I hope all is well, and smooth sailing for you.  It's a relatively nice day here, not too hot.  I did go out in the morning to get some eggs, chillies and gasoline, but otherwise I spent the whole day pretty much in the kitchen.  All that cooking, and I still haven't had dinner yet!  My first project (besides lunch, which was chicken curry burritos) was "sambal tumis" (blended chillies, onions and "belacan" (fermented shrimp paste) fried until saturated) which I often talk about because I always use it, as you one day will experience inshaAllah, because it's a great go-to hot sauce.  I put it in pretty much anything and everything.  I don't often make desserts, which I'm sure I will make many desserts when we marry inshaAllah, because I don't have much of a sweet tooth.  Today, I made a first attempt at "pulut seri kaya" (glutenous rice with a top layer of coconut egg jam).  It wasn't perfect, it's my first attempt, I think I know what I did wrong and next time should be better.  I bought the stuff ready for the fasting month, but I only got to it now.  It's very sweet.  It smells very sweet.  Then I made chilli and garlic sauce, for hot wings and dipping fried won tons or chicken nuggets and such.  Peeling all that garlic took a long time.  It's very tasty though.  Garlic is very tasty but oh so unromantic.  What, no kiss?  Finally, I made my dinner which is chicken noodle soup, with rice vermicelli for the noodles.  It has mint, chives, garlic, onion and honey in it.  It's still on the stove top, I haven't had the chance to finish it yet.  So I'm going to eat my dinner now.  Want some?