Haven’t cooked in a long time. It’s been a while. Recently I’ve started trying to handle the whole shopping-and-cooking routine. Picked up shrimp at the supermarket — actually a “green peas and shrimp” combo pack — and also grabbed okra, cherry tomatoes, cabbage, and cucumber. The last three are for a fruit salad. The weather was nice today, so I made the shrimp and the okra. The okra is dead simple: chop the garlic, drop it into medium-hot oil, stir it around, take it out. Make a dressing with light soy sauce and a spoonful of sugar. Blanch the okra in boiling water for 1 minute, and after taking it out you can run it under cold water to make it crisper — I didn’t, because I forgot. Then plate it and pour the dressing over. Done.