Today I made baked salmon with sweet potato mash, with a side of fresh zucchini, for dinner. I've never been a fan of salmon due to the tendency of the meat to dry easily during cooking, but man I'm a convert now! I baked it for 15 mins with some butter on top to prevent it from drying, wrapped in aluminium foil. Here's a pic :-)
Now something totally unrelated. Yesterday I went back to Melaka to see my family. My nephew is out of the hospital alhamdulillah, and my other sister and her family came from JB. It was so good seeing everyone, and as per tradition we ate and talked way too much. We talked about many 'out of the ordinary' things yesterday, like should we get a lorry and start a transportation business, how to make organic cat food, and oh, my favourite, what to do if the Malaysian economy crashes and paper money becomes useless? Do we start buying gold now? In the event of emergency, how do you 'break' gold to buy rice? We came to the conclusion that the safest thing to do is to have your own emergency food stashed (canned food, flour, rice etc) and at the same time, grow your own food.
I think I'm going to start doing something about that. I'm sure Greece didn't think that their economy would collapse one day, but it did. Every time I go grocery shopping, I'm going to buy a can of tuna/sardine/baked beans etc, things that I do eat sometimes but don't usually buy because I prefer fresh food. This way, my stash will not expire should dooms day not happen/gets delayed because I will eat the ones that are close to expiration and at the same time, keep stacking.
Speaking of growing your own food, hmmm this is tough. I've tried to do the research so many times before but was so daunted by the complexity of it, I didn't even start. I think I should start small, like a small pot of ginger, or onions. Those are easy enough, my grandma used to plant them in pots around her house. Her method can't be simpler, 'Dig, shove in, leave it alone'. How hard can it be?
Now something totally unrelated. Yesterday I went back to Melaka to see my family. My nephew is out of the hospital alhamdulillah, and my other sister and her family came from JB. It was so good seeing everyone, and as per tradition we ate and talked way too much. We talked about many 'out of the ordinary' things yesterday, like should we get a lorry and start a transportation business, how to make organic cat food, and oh, my favourite, what to do if the Malaysian economy crashes and paper money becomes useless? Do we start buying gold now? In the event of emergency, how do you 'break' gold to buy rice? We came to the conclusion that the safest thing to do is to have your own emergency food stashed (canned food, flour, rice etc) and at the same time, grow your own food.
I think I'm going to start doing something about that. I'm sure Greece didn't think that their economy would collapse one day, but it did. Every time I go grocery shopping, I'm going to buy a can of tuna/sardine/baked beans etc, things that I do eat sometimes but don't usually buy because I prefer fresh food. This way, my stash will not expire should dooms day not happen/gets delayed because I will eat the ones that are close to expiration and at the same time, keep stacking.
Speaking of growing your own food, hmmm this is tough. I've tried to do the research so many times before but was so daunted by the complexity of it, I didn't even start. I think I should start small, like a small pot of ginger, or onions. Those are easy enough, my grandma used to plant them in pots around her house. Her method can't be simpler, 'Dig, shove in, leave it alone'. How hard can it be?
Happy clean living peeps!
