Lentils

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, Honey?  I hope you are feeling great and having a marvelous time.  Please keep safe and healthy.  I'm doing OK over here, just missing you as usual.  Isn't that a nice Mexican pop song above?  It seems different to me, perhaps I listened to Mariachi only back in those days.

I recently discovered by accident that lentils can be used to thicken noodles.  Today I planned for it, and blended lentils, onions, garlic and carrots to be used as a fond.  It definitely worked.  My fried noodles had the effect of a spaghetti with an extra thick sauce, except the flavor is Eastern/Middle Eastern.  I used to dislike lentils, but now it's going to become a kitchen staple for me.

Mary's outfit is:

LIVIA::Just Reds // Lipstick 1

::MA:: FIONA Knee Boots

CR - Enchant Earrings - Blue Topaz

ELIKATIRA Orra hair

~LIA~ Meshdress Micky Maus

Here are my picks from the 16Arlington FALL 2022 READY-TO-WEAR collection:

Together

 

Hi Natty!  Oh, lots of pretty pictures to look at!  Yes, I like that second shot too.  You are beautiful, my love.  How are you today?  I hope everything is going smoothly for you, and you are safe and healthy.  I didn't get much sleep last night.  I must have been excited about something.  And I had that song in my head...  Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Check out the video above.  The Italian guy met his wife in Phuket while she was studying and he was on holiday.  Then she returned to Japan, and he decided to go there too and be with her.  He didn't have any money, and he didn't know a word of Japanese.  He survived because of his wife, and now he makes Italian style ramen.  I don't know abut Italian style ramen, though.  I would rather have spaghetti, and my ramen be ramen.  You know what I mean?

Mary's outfit is:

LIVIA::Just Reds // Lipstick 1

"Your Majesty" Diamond & Pearl Earrings by ~TEMPESTUOUS~

-FABIA- Mesh Hair < Aly>

DZ 15-1 shoes by MillionHeels

Emilia Halter Gown Elly

Here are my picks from the Zuhair Murad FALL 2022 READY-TO-WEAR collection:

And I love you too

 

Thank you for your love.  Oh Natty, it's been such a long time.  I'm so sorry it's taking so long, I sincerely am.  Please forgive me.  The fashion industry needs to hurry up and give me money so I can afford to give you a good married life.

Are you hungry?  Dinner turned out quite well, alhamdulillah.  I was blending lentils, peppers and onions for snacks later, and I had onions and garlic next in line to be blended to make fond for fried noodles.  There was a lot of lentil mush at the bottom of the blender, but I was too lazy to scrape it out so I included that in the fond.  Lentils brown nicely and impart a nutty flavor, and when water is added the mix becomes thick.  I cooked up cubed eggplant and whole bok choy in the soup, added beef then the noodles.  The result was a thick fried noodles, add an egg made it even denser.  A very satisfying dinner.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

26.  Say, "O Allah!  Lord of Power, You give power to whom You please, and You strip off power from whom You please.  You endue with honor whom You please, and You bring low whom You please.  In Your hand is all Good.  Verily, over all things You have Power."

(The Family of Imran 3:26)

What is a BAFTA?  Obviously it's an important enough event that the Crown Prince and his wife showed up.  With all those people competing to be the prettiest girl on the red carpet, I suppose I should judge it.  Now girls, a beautiful dress isn't automatically going to make you the winner of the red carpet!  The woman must make the dress even more beautiful!  So if you looked like Jabba the Hutt then you're definitely not going to win this competition, no matter how much money and power you have!  Anyway, the winner of the 2023 BAFTAs is Sheila Atim!

I was pleasantly surprised at how many outfits I liked from the Zimmermann FALL 2022 READY-TO-WEAR collection.  Here are my picks:

The Terror of the Washer: "Water is a very complex thing" featuring Anna the kitten

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today, Honey?  I hope you are having a fabulous time over there, and keeping safe and healthy.  I just had spaghetti with beef and mushrooms for dinner.  There's a weekly market about a couple of miles away, and I got about 10 bucks of produce.  Oyster mushrooms, bok choy, Chinese cabbage, carrots, tofu and a little bit of salt fish to make ramen broth.  No life without ramen!

It was laundry day today.  Anna had a little adventure with the laundry.  Oh dear!  I keep water in a couple of reservoirs in the bathroom, one being a large red tub the size of my bass drum which happens to be made of a large red tub.  I have to fill the washer with water by carrying it there bucket by bucket, the washer is by the back door.  Anna decided to jump onto the rim of the large red tub which happened to be slippery, so she fell in .  Good thing I was close by, and heard her struggling.  The water level wasn't at the rim, but it wasn't low enough so her feet could touch bottom, so if I hadn't fished her out of there she would have drowned.  You can see the photo above of her curling up feeling sorry for herself, after I dried her off with a towel.  It kind of reminds me of how Elisa Lam fell into the water tank on the roof of that creepy hotel by Skid Row after being gang raped and drowned.  Kind of.  How long ago was that?  I guess everyone's forgotten about it.

Mary's avatar has a big butt today!  It's the clothes that make her look fat.  I like her better with a smaller butt.  Mary's outfit is:

:*BABY*: Sparkling Barbie Lipstick

Alli&Ali Designs Laura Hair

.::E.D.D.A::. Maniae SET

*NEW HOPE DOVE MOONSTONE/DIAMOND EARRINGS

Phedora ~ Shelbie Heels

Here are my picks from the Zero + Maria Cornejo FALL 2022 READY-TO-WEAR collection: