I cooked tonight to give Susan a break. I made pepper steak—I usually use green and red peppers, tomatoes, garlic, Vidalia onion, preserved black beans, oyster sauce, and soy sauce but, she doesn’t like green peppers, so a yellow, orange, and red pepper were used. I prefer to use flank steak for this dish, but, we ended up picking up some cheaper meat at the supermarket earmarked for “Stir Fry.” I totally spaced and forgot to pick up tomatoes. I spaced further, because we have cherry tomatoes on hand (I often use plum tomatoes for this). In all my years of cooking, this may be the first time I’ve made this dish without tomatoes. Oh well. It was still decent, but, as I was eating it, I thought, “Sonething’s missing.”