Wednesday, January 10, 2024

12:00 Got heart problems. For now they go away with aspirin. Two aspirins stuck with a patch on my chest last for 24 hours. Then it's pain again starting on my left side of the chest that goes to my left arm. Not the first time within last year.

Earlier tonight i thought i was clear from it. Until i sat at now Angela's computer to read the news. Cause it's like 10 times faster than this Lenovo. (wow price went up 60 bucks).

When i saw the news with the success of Part Time Dad in Romania, exactly in that moment the woman upstairs made a terrible noise, surpassing herself in the past. Like she threw herself on the ground or jumped from a chair. And she's like 250 pounds. And i put another two aspirin patch and several hours later pain is almost gone.

I said she. But i think i saw until now several different ones, like in the past. One single person generally looking the same, on the same ticket. Or ID. Using the same car. Though one of the cars is now gone. Same goes with boyfriends. Last night i thought i saw that guy who is now Prime Minister of France.

Soon after the pain started. What i think it is. I think it is inflammation that passes from my esophagus to pericardium.

Yesterday i went crazy and started to beep one of my finders. Got it from Amazon. Six loud sounding labels and a remote. It helps me find the keys, wallet, etc.. So i don't waste anymore up to half hour a day searching for those, my beanie and everything else. Kidding. Don't have one on my beanie but i found it tonight. It was in the laundry.

So i put one beeping label near the ceiling and every time she was stomping hard enough to bother me i beeped. And i think it's over 100 dB. After a number of series of beeps, maybe 20 or 30 she finally stopped. Today she was kinda shy but still did it quit a few times.

12:25 But the reason i came at this computer was to write what i was thinking earlier. We screwed the zacusca again.

After Angela bought at Trader Joes some made in Bulgaria, which had sugar added and is too boiled, (i'm certain they got smart and know what Americans want), we decided to make our own. So we bought eggplants, peppers, had some onion, didn't have tomato paste, replaced it with sauce which is not good cause it adds water to it, and in the end you want to reduce a lot of the water.

This is what we call lazy man's zacusca. The original recipe calls for roasting and peeling and then very small dicing the eggplant and peppers which adds flavor but looses nutrients. And it's a lot more time consuming.

So i just grated everything with my huge grate i bought on Amazon (yes with patience it is possible to grate eggplant, peppers and even onion though it seems a bit awkward at first LOL) though in the past we had a Braun mini food processor which was really good for this particular job (though i needed to shake it like a cocktail shaker while chopping to do it uniformly), but the second one broke. Got one at Walmart which is so badly designed you can't do nothing with it.

So i just grated everything, threw it in a big thick bottom pot and then i was so tired i fell asleep and Angela lost patience coming every 10 minutes from her Netflix to prevent it from sticking on the bottom of the pot and stopped the boiling after a little more than one hour and it came watery.

Though in Romania and neighboring countries it is not a dish but a preserve, traditionally made during fall where there is (was) an abundance of fresh vegetables, it is the best food i ever had. Second best is Teriyaki from a good place, like Best Teriyaki in Beaverton.

Some call it vegetable caviar or eggplant caviar. Though i never had caviar. Angela bought once a tiny jar from Grocery Outlet with 7 bucks or something but i did not want to taste it knowing it is preserved with boron which i use mixed with sugar for ants (though i know it is not toxic for humans, just for insects).

If you balance your reducing boiling time to keep some of the texture, maybe using a double wall pot with water in  the walls and bottom, to prevent sticking, and you won't boil it too much to turn it into a paste, it is indeed something you might wanna surprise your guests with at your next party.

Back to the Beelink to continue binge sampling Lost in Space. BTW i think i recognized the fast metabolism sexy legs mini woman with a hound/lab cross maybe i keep seeing in the alley.

2:10 Sun god...

5:52 Aspirin is holding. But will not drink tonight no matter how hard are pissing me the guys from upstairs.

I remembered a video i saw online today. About a bison that checked into a monastery and left unimpressed. Romanian word for bison is zimbru which reminds of Xenu also spelled Xemu, Zânu, Zmeul, zimaza, etc..