Roast beef

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today, my love?  I hope you are healthy and keeping safe.  I'm doing OK over here.  Not much going on, just the usual.  Oh, I made a fresh batch of my generic roast beef!  The ingredients are so simple.  I don't really want to go into the details of the procedure, though.  As I mentioned before, I don't want people selling ¥500,000 bowls of Zam-style ramen.  Well, this is roast beef.  I will reveal one important ingredient: beef.  What's so hard about roast beef, anyway?  Just slow cook it in a covered pot until done.  If you like it rare, then you must use the best cuts of beef.  In my roast beef the gristle and fat are the best parts, so I don't want the expensive cuts.  There's a snapshot of today's batch above, swimming in the drippings.  I use the drippings to make my world famous Cowboy beans.  Famous among cats, that is.

Qur'an 20211030

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

32.  Say, "Who has forbidden the beautiful of Allah, which God has provided for God's servants, clean and pure, for sustenance?"  Say, "They are, in the life of this world, purely for them on the Day of Judgment."  Thus do We explain the Signs in detail for those who understand.

33.  Say, "The things that my Lord has indeed forbidden are shameful deeds whether open or secret, sins or trespasses against truth or reason, assigning of partners to Allah for which God has given no authority, and saying things about Allah for which you have no knowledge."

(The Heights 7:32-33)

One

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are well, and having a blast.  Today is Friday over here.  The morning was pretty chill.  I did my laundry, then had ramen for lunch as usual.  Oh my God, I'm so serious about my ramen.  Right now I'm using beef neck bones for soup stock.  The chunk I used today turned out to not have any bone in it at all!  It was all meat!  What's up with that?  The flavor was OK, though.  Well, the mind and the stomach have a close connection.  Perhaps the flavor was psychosomatic.  The evening was busy, however.  But I managed to get everything I needed done by sunset, so I don't have to go downtown anytime this weekend inshaAllah.

Wow, it looks like Climate Justice is en vogue right now.  It's because of you, my Precious Princess!  Good job, Honey!  I'm a big fan of Bootsy Collins, especially the stuff he did in Parliament/Funkadelic.  Metallica is a big supporter of Climate Justice too!  Isn't that right, guys?

Stuffed

 

Oh Honey, I'm sorry!  I didn't notice those fashion pictures from Paris were old news until today.  This means you haven't been back to France ever since... well, you know.  I'm still quite displeased at what happened back then.  But it's been a while ago, and I guess there's no need to make a big stink about it now.  As long as it never happens again, and they always treat you very cautiously.

I'm stuffed right now.  I just ate banana fritters, prawn fritters, and a kilo of fries, and I'm so damned full.  I wanted more of those banana fritters that I had last Friday, I thought they were quite good.  My mother didn't like them, though.  My mother is a ruthless food critic.  She gets the hawkers scrambling for cover, while she doesn't even need to leave her kitchen.  It turned out that the banana fritters weren't as good as last Friday's.  The last time was greasier, this time it tasted too cautious.  I suppose I can't expect excellence from such a standard recipe.  My mother liked the prawn fritters, so I thought I would try some.  They tasted average to me.  But anything tastes better in my latest blend of hot sauce, that's why I also downed a kilo of fries.  I used a bottle of cheap chilli sauce, the type that wasn't based on ketchup.  Then I blended it with green hot chilli peppers, chilli puree, and pickled soybeans.  So it still has sugar in it, being the bottled sauce that it is, but now it has so much extra kick to it.  The key to a great savory dipping sauce is pickled soybeans.  I swear by it.

Qur'an 20211028

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

28.  When they do that which is shameful, they say, "We found our fathers doing so," and "Allah commanded us thus."  Say, "Allah never commands what is shameful.  Do you say of Allah what you know not?"

29.  Say, "My Lord has commanded justice, and that you set your whole selves at every time and place of prayer, and call upon God, making your devotion sincere as in God's sight.  Such as God created you in the beginning, so shall you return."

(The Heights 7:28-29)

It's mostly downhill from up here

 

Hi Natty!  How are you?  Are you enjoying the ride?  How's your back?  Please be careful and aware, because habitual injury can be irreversible.  Try to find a comfortable way to labor.  Sleep on the floor.  I sleep on the floor, and I don't get back pain.  Alhamdulillah.

It can get lonely at the top, but at least you're at the top.  The good news is that nobody can ever reach God, so there will always be steps to climb.  But if our agenda were anything other than God, then we're shit out of luck.  Only one direction to go.  So please be righteous.  I  love you for the sake of Allah.

Cowboy beans

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today, my darling?  I hope you are feeling great, and having a marvelous time.  I'm doing fine here, alhamdulillah.  I didn't have to go anywhere other than buy some breakfast for my mother, then lunch for myself, and that was just to the crossroads.  Traffic is constantly murder there nowadays.  It wasn't like that 10 years ago.

Are you a cowboy, Natty?  Do you eat beans?  Everybody knows that real cowboys eat beans!  Look at Blake Shelton!  After I cut the grass this evening, I had beans for dinner.  I had only 3 slices of bread left, including the butt end.  So I laid down some hot sauce in the pan, and heated it up.  Then I put my burger on that and cooked that up.  I dumped my beans on top of that and heated it until the whole mess was steaming hot, then I made a cavity in the beans and cracked an egg in there on top of the burger.  I put a lid on it and when the egg was done, I scooped it out with the burger and that was my sandwich.  Lookie and Adolf Kitler were all over me throughout dinner.  My cats love my beans.