30 days of iftars: #4 &5

A'salaamu alaikum ya'll. So night #4 was a fail. I made lentil soup, addis abba, but of course with my own spin. I've made it like this before, especially last Ramadhan. I used chicken, carrots, onion (we ran out of garlic!), red lentils, and celery. So kinda like a chicken soup with lentils but always turns out nicely.

This time I used too much chicken and it just had a funky chicken smell. I can't stand that! I tried putting lemon juice in it but to no avail. Really it's best made with bone-in chicken not boneless breasts which I used. At any rate, the family ate it but I didn't. I have a thing about meat and meat smells now and it's just really hard for me to stomach them. It's a kidney thang, I guess.

Anyway we had the soup, salad (a staple) plus leftover samosas, reheated in the oven. The kids ate some leftover cheesecake as well. I nibbled at a samosas and had some olives, another "condiment" on our table. :-)

I haven't been feeling well today; I had planned to make the shorba I've shown on here before, yummy with lots of veggies and beef cubes. Alas my body isn't co-operating so that's not in the cards. I drug myself to the store to get the tomato paste and then by the time I got home, I was waaay too tired to cook.

So A hauled himself and the bigger kiddos to the masjid for iftar; Aaminah and I indulged in a very gourmet repast of frozen cheese pizza. Here we sit now, Aaminah watching "Lady and the Tramp" and mama resting, finishing her blog post.

Qur'an update:

I've worked on my surah (114 An-nas) and have made great progress. Except... I am so shy to say it out loud while practicing. I always have an audience and, as everyone else in the house has a native Aarbic accent, it does make me shy. I know this is my issue but there you have it. I want to have the surah completed before this time next week. I know it's plenty of time just the practice issue. Insha'allah it will work out. :-)

Ma salaama ya'll