21: Week 21

Hello dear Reader, I sincerely apologize for the lack of posts. I didn’t post around the end of May due to my finals and wanting to focus on school and on keeping my grades up. I may have lost track of time ever since summer started but I’m back to posting weekly.

I hope everyone’s summer has been good so far. Make sure to wear your mask if you aren’t vaccinated and if you’re in a public area where it’s required. What has everyone been doing so far? I haven’t done much. One of my best friends and I had our first sleepover; a friend came over on Friday so we went swimming; I’ve been world building for a new story - more on that later - and Mother and I are going thrifting on Tuesday. I also planted some new plants for myself. Not to mention dance stuff is going on, so there’s that. 

Now, on to my new story. In the spring semester of this school year, I had creative writing. During the class, we had workshops, where we would write a short story - around four pages - and read it out loud to the class, receiving feedback on what was good and what the writer had to work on. When I was writing my first workshop story, I could see it being a fully developed novel. I had my parents proofread it for mistakes and they both said they wanted to read more. My teacher said she could sense there was more to the story, so here we are. I’m working on it. Well, I’m world building for it actually. I don’t have a plot yet and I haven’t met my main character and there are still details I need to fix. But regardless, I’m pretty excited to see where it goes. 

A while back, I made a really good udon stir fry, so I’m going to give that recipe to you, dear Reader. 

Ingredients:

• 1 pack of udon noodles

• Sliced mushrooms

• Quarter onion, diced

• 1 green onion

• 1 leftover piece of fish, chopped

            Sauce

• ½ tbsp soy sauce

• ½ tbsp oyster sauce

• ½ tbsp hoisin sauce

• ½ tbsp sesame oil

• ¼ tsp chili oil

• ¼ tsp sriracha sauce

• 2 tbsp water 

Directions

1. Slice mushrooms and green onion. Chop up the fish and dice the quarter onion. Get sauce ingredients and mix the sauce. 

2. Turn on the pan, add olive oil and cook the vegetables and fish for 1 minute.

3. Add the udon noodles and cook for 2 minutes. 

4. Pour in the sauce and cook until the sauce is gone and noodles are separated and fully covered in the sauce. 

    Of course you can add whatever vegetables you want. You can add carrots, peppers, tofu. It doesn’t even have to be fish either, I just wrote it because at the time, we had leftover fish in the fridge so I added it to the recipe. Adjust it to your liking and whatever you want. If you try it, please let me know what you thought of it! I’d love to hear if you liked it and if you added anything else. 

    Well, that’s all for this week dear Reader. Make sure to get outside at least for a walk, have some fun, enjoy yourself. Try something new. 

Until next time, dear Reader. 

Signing off, 

Mother and Eliot