ahh The Nerve of him!

I've never thought someone could be so stubborn to not take care of his body and blame me when he's sick. The people who say they never get sick because they have full immunity? That is a lie. People who seem to never get sick will be in a worse state than people who normally feel under the weather in the case that sickness prevails.

So what happened? My housemate somehow got viral bronchitis and since we use the same kitchen, he infected me with his germs and bacteria. So for most of the day my brain felt like it was traveling through turbulence, my butt hurts when i sit down for more than 30 minutes and I am sleepy? It's been almost two years since I've took a nap because my body went through meltdown. But enough with that.

I made somewhat a 80% recovery from today's state.
In times of sickness even if you do not feel like eating, the important thing is to never skip a meal. Do not force your body to reject food because you feel like you are unhappy when you are sick. You must eat like your life depends on it! First pick your favorite food that is easy to digest to get your stomach warmed up (I chose bananas) As soon as you have the appetite to eat, scarf easily digestible food down until you are satisfied. (I had cottage cheese, bread, and tomato soup) I've never tried tomato soup before but I have heard others say it's good for when you are sick *It's not bad, but I would have prepared cream of mushroom* But I do know cottage cheese is packed with protein and is low in fat, and being the cheese lover I am, I had great helping till I am satiated.

Now I am gleaming in energy to write angry blogs. So yes, make sure you find some way to stuff protein, iron, potassium and grain in your body when you are sick.

Btw, I do not like Bananas. I'm just reading over my post right now.
You see, when people get sick, they say stuff they do not actually mean. I mean I was half sick and half asleep while I was typing that. This would not go very well if I ever held office. No sir. But, it is not that I do not like the shape bananas are (that would be ... profiling). I just simply do not like the somewhat damp/soggy/mildly sweet taste they have. But heck, I like Banana Leaves, and Flambe! Banana Bread? Half the time people make me banana bread I wonder to myself what I am suppose to say. Point of truth, bananas are not my favorite food.

New Wave Pastries

Today I had the sweetest thought on my mind yet google search provided no luck. Why have people not thought of making a honey-filled bread before? Surely you cannot just put pure honey inside as it would just destroy the pastries while it's baking and the filling would ooze out everywhere. I suspect raw honey would also behave the same once it is heated up.

Something so delicious is a problem if it has not been ventured before. There must be someway to change the thermal and material properties of the honey such that the bread can bake nicely and the honey does not just drip out of the bread when eaten.

This will have to be put on hold till I can design a simple and fun solution to satisfy my hunger pleas.

My Perfect Curry

At last I found out what it needed for it to be absolutely filling. Sweets!

This was the best test ever. I forgot to mention that I am only an avid spicy food eater, yet the curry I made last week was probably 3/5 in spicy levels when it was cold. In my opinion, cold spicy food is suppose to drop half to 1 level from when it is hot because it does not taste as spicy for some reason. Yet The first time I tried it my tongue was somewhat heating up so I decided to not put as much in my lunch. (for the record, raw jalapeno would just put my tongue on fire for a few minutes).

Look how much of a wimp I am, the curry is in the middle

For me to find the right condiments to take the spiciness off of the curry and make it taste delicious when it is cold makes me relieved and happy at the same time.
What I made was a Macanese style chicken curry that my mother passed down to me.  As for the sweet, I had dried raisins, sweet pickled daikon, gluten pouches which you can find in any oriental market (they are sweet), tamagoyaki (Japanese egg rolls), and vinegar seasoned rice.
For the seasoning I had Aoi-nori (seaweed flakes), and sweet soy sauce. These are usually the material you would find on an okonomiyaki. (you can google that :])
The separate dishes, some of which I cooked in the weekend takes about an hour or so, but the set up only takes like 15 mins for three boxes. (I pack lunches in boxes of three for three days.)

 Yea this time I'm not afraid of putting more, since my first lunch was just delicious!

 
I am not a candy lover, but the sweetness of each sides and the curry mixed with the rice makes this a mouth-drooler. Which reminds me, I had to do something earlier today and bit the chopsticks in my mouth to hold off on eating. Few seconds later, my drool traveled across my chopstick and landed on my elbow, then I was like O.O.

Oh Yes, usually I would break out with sweat/stress as I eat spicy food, but I was okay.

I'll share this recipe if I have time.

Simply Fish

There are times in the morning when a person does not feel their best, for me my body is super tired and I do not  feel like getting up. 

However, my quick fix, which is probably the simplest recipe ever is a good fish stock. The prepare process is not all that bad as you do not even have to watch the fire (as often). 

Fish Soup (Maybe I should have better naming for these sort of things)

okay. How about,

Sunny Morning Fish Broth?

makes 4-6 servings 

1 tablespoon oil for pan (somewhat necessary but amount does not matter)

6 normal dried anchovies depending on size
1 medium to large size potato

water I used a 2 quart= 8 cups pan? and I used 7 cups, and it is already pretty rich

salt and white pepper to taste

1) in a pot of medium heat, throw in the oil until the oil can slide smoothly on your pan

2) wash dried anchovies and throw it in to grill until all oil dissipates and add in some salt and pepper to season the anchovies. Grill to the point where the pot would sizzle if you dropped an atom of liquid in there. While you are waiting, keep stirring the anchovies around until they disintegrate and try your best to pick out their intestines for they make your soup bitter if you left it in. Make sure to keep heat at medium so you do not burn the fish during this whole time.

3)  sprinkle in (1/8 to1/4) cup of water to steam the anchovies. The water should be boiling before you add more water.  Keep sprinkling till the water covers the anchovies. 

4) Slice the potatoes however you like, normal is 1/2 inch. The thinner you slice the faster they cook. Throw the potato slices inside and add enough water to cover potato

5) wait for boil and add in more water till you're satisfied

6) season to taste.

6 ingredients 6 recipes

Going to grab more soup now

Note to self:1

- when making fish stock out of dried anchovies the guts should be removed first. Heads can be kept for maximum flavor.

Dear Journal,
I have been wondering ever since last week on the type of curry I can produce that can taste good even when it is cold. This has gotten me stumped for the longest time yet I think I am reaching an answer. Speaking of curry, every nationality has their own type of curry even though they might not call it curry because it does not contain any of the spices that would make it a curry. Out of all the recipes I have analyzed cold curry is possible; Infact, curry filled bun or even curry flavored samosa is truly delicious when it's cold.
Curry is delicious, yet it has grease which might taste disgusting when it is cold as it's just one lump of fat. Yet in the case of the bread, the grease gets absorbed by the bread and it is not noticeable. With the samosa, it is the same thing, since it was deep fried you would not notice the difference anyway.
Maybe, frying is the solution. A fried good can keep well in the refrigerator
now I just need something that has properties similar to bread to feel good about eating that cold piece of grease.