Adventures in tater tots

Hi Natty!  How are you?  Aw don't you feel lonely my darling, I'm always with you and I always think about you.  Don't you know that I've given the rest of my life to you?  I love you with all of my heart.  So don't you worry about a thing, everything will work out just fantastic for us inshaAllah.  Please be patient and pray.  You're probably caught up in the whirlwind of our business of marriage, and it's hard to do it alone.  Tell me about it!  I'm an emotional wreck!  Patience is truly from Allah.

Are you hungry?  Please remember that as my wife inshaAllah, you are automatically a professional endorser of food products.  This may or may not have any emotional value to you, but be aware that other people go insane over it.  This may be something you need to discuss with your agent, so you don't miss out on the bucks.  My project for this month is beef and potatoes on a small budget, namely my budget.  The food that crossed my mind today is tater tots.  You can't find tater tots anywhere here.  Tater tots is an American phenomenon.  It's basically precooked  potatoes plus flour mixed into dough, shaped into tater tots then fried.  I don't think it's wise to get creative with that concept, because the human brain may not find anything other than what is perceived as school lunch to be palatable.  But I had some leftover curry pup stuffing, which is basically precooked potatoes with onions and meat (in this case chicken) mixed with curry spices, which turned out kind of bland as curry pups, so I turned them into tater tots.  It worked out to be too exotic for tater tots, but not a failure.  Next time, I'll make it as close to school lunch as possible.

Upgrade to bland

Hi Natty!  How are you?  You must be living it up as a glamorous supermodel.  Please have tons of fun!  But always be vigilant about protecting your good health, OK?  There's not much going on over here with me other than the usual.  Even the menu is bland: eggs and baked beans for lunch, chicken nuggets and fries for dinner, and no snacks.  Seems like a downgrade, huh?  But my tummy is very happy, so what may seem like a downgrade is actually an upgrade from another perspective.  My food project for this month is beef and potatoes, using average quality ingredients.  Tonight I made home fries.  It was OK.  Frozen fries are better, but my home fries wasn't a failure.

Free food

Hi Natty!  What's going on?  I hope you are having tons of fun, and keeping safe and healthy.  It's Sunday here, and I'm usually busy all day Sunday.  In the evening however, as I was running errands the restaurant at the corner gave me some free food.  Someone threw a moving banquet, and I got some free food.  Alhamdulillah!

Bihun goreng (fried rice vermicelli):

Rendang (spicy savory beef):

Lemang (glutenous rice grilled in bamboo)

Not to be confused with "siamang":

No, we don't eat bush meat here!

Go Natty, go!

Wow you look all polished and ready to rock, Natty.  I absolutely love how you look.  I just want to kiss you and kiss you and kiss you.  You are excited, huh?  I can see it in your eyes.  Now that you are being a super social butterfly, please be aware that these are dangerous times.  Even the slightest sensation of a cold or flu symptom must be neutralized immediately, and it can occur at any moment, so please make sure you have that medication with you at all times.  Oh yeah, wear a mask if you have to.  It helps to block coughs and sneezes.

It's nice and cool right now, and it was a cold morning, so I've been in a good mood all day.  I like being in a good mood.  Since it was so comfortable, I got lots of sleep.  Plus I naturally stay away from people, so I don't worry so much about the virus.  I dusted out my house in the morning, and I harvested bananas and jackfruit for my mother in the evening.  For dinner, I had a sausage and raw onion pizza.  Thick crust.  Oh, check out today's Jap kids video!  There's a candy pizza!

Cat chaos

Hi Natty!  How's it going?  Staying busy?  Please be careful with your health.  It's Friday here today.  It's nice and cold, and I should be in a good mood.  But trying to avoid the crowd kind of frustrated me a little.  It's almost sunset now, and I'm feeling good now.  My cats are extra chaotic nowadays.  I expect that while I'm trying to cook, but during feeding time I have a system so everybody gets to eat.  You know cat politics right, what they all want is somebody else's food.  The kittens are most passionate about this.  I've seen them eat.  What they do is stuff their mouths first as fast as they can without swallowing so they can't swallow, so they have to spit some food out in order to swallow, then someone else gets the spat out food if they don't swallow fast enough to reclaim the food that they could not swallow.  Make sense?  So I isolate the kittens in the kitty litter room while I feed the adults first, then bring their food to them last.  Today they burst out of the room like a cat explosion and attacked Lookie's food bowl, so I had to put their food in front of Lookie so she can eat somewhat of something.  Such passion.

The rainbow cobra

Hi Natty!  How are you today, my darling?  I hope you are keeping safe and healthy.  What are you having for dinner?  I'm fasting today, and I bought some takeout rice for dinner.  Most people like lavish spreads for breaking fast, but I prefer to chug some water, pray, then eat whatever.  Buying takeout means I don't have to cook, so I cut the grass in the evening.  Now I'm just waiting for them to call the sunset prayer.

Have you ever seen the rainbow cobra in your dreams, Natty?  Here's how to gauge snakes in dreams:

1.  Small snake: treachery and deceit.

2.  Human sized snake: serious illness.

3.  Giant snake: trouble between countries.

If you see a snake in a dream, you must kill it!

Featuring Mary Unknown7 as Little Red Riding the Hood!

Hi Natty

How are you today, Honey?  I hope all is well with you.  I don't have much to report today.  It's another lazy day for me, I'm just not motivated to do any labor.  I did my laundry, today is laundry day.  It was a cold, rainy morning.  I like it cold, but my poor cats don't like the cold.  It warmed up in the afternoon, though.  No yard work in the evening, like I said.  I did set up the grass cutter for more work tomorrow perhaps.  Tomorrow I will be fasting.  It's an optional fast, for the day before the Eid which is Friday.  It's a public holiday, but people aren't as fanatical about this Eid as they are about the one at the end of the fasting month.  This Eid marks the end of the Hajj ritual, but I don't think there was a Hajj this year because of the virus.  Anyway, I made poor man's pizza gain, with breadsticks.  I thought it would be an adventure to coat the breadsticks with breadcrumbs, but it wasn't.  It tasted like breadsticks.  Want some?