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Tuesday, April 20th 2021

01:35 A.M.

Dear cheerio,

Tomorrow we’re going to hospital since my dad’s continuing chemotherapy. He lost 30kgs in total because of his decreasing appetite, resulting in saggy skin and weak body—we had to hold his arm when he walked. Update: His health improved, he was able to eat meal. I hope things will become better, even if it’s a small progress.

I was supposed to make kimchi days ago, but my red pepper flakes I ordered online hasn’t arrived yet. I think it’ll arrive today. It’ll be a rush though since I had to make it today and we had to prepare things for hospitalization.

Istg my sister is slowly becoming my 3rd aunt. She kept saying she wanted kimchi, but was hesitant to buy some local kimchi here cause who knows what they’d taste like?

I made kimchi before, using local ingredients, which resulted in mega super spicy kimchi. I blended local red curly dried chilies instead of the traditional gochugaru (korean red chili flakes that isn’t spicy at all).

We barely could eat it by itself, so I had to put it in dish. Made kimchi fried rice a lot of times, my mom said it was still super spicy but at least more edible.

So I suggested my sister to make homemade kimchi, of course her contribution is none, I’ll make it all by myself again. She’s allergic to cooking/baking. She thinks it’s a hassle, she’d rather purchase food outside.

She had the audacity to complain to me, “When’ll your kimchi be ready?”

“Uh the gochugaru hasn’t arrived yet, probably tomorrow.”, I replied.

“Ugh it’s taking so long. And after you make it, you have to ferment for a week right? Whatever, I don’t care anymore.”

I want to slap her. I WAS CHARITABLE ENOUGH TO OFFER YOU MY HOMEMADE KIMCHI EVEN THOUGH I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO OBLIGATION TO. Bitch, go buy outside then. Do taste test here and there to meet your palate. Go find the most sour kimchi available in this town.

Oh we have many bananas laying in the freezer. Our bananas are good af, my 4th aunt said my cousin wouldn’t eat bananas unless it’s our home-grown ones.

Using my whole wheat flour that arrived today, so happy the flour turned to be fine & good

Okay first time making these and tasting these. I don’t know what graham crackers taste like, but this recipe is too sweet. Why are all recipes state sugar more than they need? I always have to subtract grams of sugar from the recipes, especially American ones.

Still forgivable though, but I thought graham crackers were more like digestive biscuits? These ones tasted like snickerdoodle (cinnamon + brown sugar).

Ignore my ugly cuttings of the crackers. I can never do shortbread style neatly.

Kinda random but I like making videos of me baking or cooking. Especially when it’s super quiet and I can only hear the Alexa playing my Spotify playlist.

But my house is never quiet lol. You wouldn’t want to do things like ASMR cooking.