Ugh

Tonight I made curry for dinner. Curry is quite easy, you just chop up onions and carrots and chicken and throw them in a pot with the curry mix. I did not take pictures of the curry. I'm posting now pictures of dinner from last night.
I've got a sinus infection. Antibiotics take a lot out of me when I'm on them, so I let the thing go for weeks and weeks before I finally dragged myself to the doctor. Now I'm on antibiotics. For the first few days after I start them, I feel so much worse than I do even when I'm sick. But when I've spent a month waking up several times throughout the night simply because my sinuses are drowning me, there's a line that needs to be drawn.
Anyway, perhaps it's because I'm on medicine and feel sick and sensitive right now, or perhaps my husband is really is particularly critical today, but I feel like he's done nothing but complain at my cooking today. He says he can do it better. Yes, surely he could, if he did--but he DOESN'T. That's kind of key. I actually do it--if dinner was up to him, we would have udon or eggs every night. So I feel like I'm trying my best, but he's being overly critical right now. Tonight I've made watery curry, included onion skins (guilty, but I tried my best to get them all peeled off...), and wasted food because I didn't scrape the pan out very well. *sigh* I'm in a can't-do-anything-right kind of mood. It may just be the antibiotics and general lowness they cause are making me hyper-sensitive. I look forward to getting better and back in to the gym tomorrow--today vaccuuming left me lightheaded and ill.
/rant
Yesterday I made sanma (saury). I felt quite sick, and couldn't eat it, but it was fun to make. I served it with hakusai-ume pickles, spicy gobo pickles, egg drop soup, and a cucumber salad. I also ate the leftover papaya-kiwi-daikon salad, just to get rid of it.


I couldn't really eat the gobo pickles either. I made them mainly because we're having yaki-niku tomorrow when my parents come, and I think the spicy goes well with that.
I made egg drop soup because it's so nice when you're sick. And until I'm through the first three days on anti-biotics, I am "sick." It was easy and yummy, although maybe a titch too salty. I think I made it very well, however, for a first attempt.
And I also had some honey-garlic tea. I made garlic pickled in honey a week or so ago, and I'm waiting for it to finish. The honey the garlic is pickled in is ready to drink after a few days, however, and it is supposed to be excellent when you're ill. So I took a spoonful of garlic-honey and added it to hot water. It was nice, and it did make me feel a bit better. But I'm still going to bed early tonight.