We had a pleasant morning watching all the talk shows and then some of the Manchester United v. Chelsea
By lunch time we were hungry and the meal I had planned for dinner became lunch. We cut up one of the fresh mild Italian sausages (we had bought at Sunflower Market last Sunday) and ¼ cup of onion, two cloves of garlic and several sliced portabella mushrooms, about ten canned black olives from California
The whole cooking process was pretty quick, probably less than thirty minutes and very tasty with a glass of Chianti (Trader Joe’s $4.99).
We started watching the Super Bowl at 4:30 p.m. and this year it was engaging, so rather than making the Shish Kabob’s we had discussed before lunch, we opted for a simpler and healthier Cesar Salad with steak. I had made a Cesar Salad dressing several days before, so at half time, after Madonna sang, Suzette spun the lettuce, while I sliced up one of the new boneless rib eye steaks from Lowe’s ($3.99/lb.) and shaved some Romano Peccorino cheese.
While Suzette sautéed the steak in a pan, I poured glasses of the Chianti opened for lunch and set the table near the fireplace and just after the end of half time we were eating our Cesar salads with steak.
After the game we were hungry for some dessert so I made chocolate chip cookies, but instead of two cups of Nestle’s semi-sweet chocolate chips I used one cup of chips and 1 cup of raisins and added ½ cup of barley flakes to two cups of flour. I also used one cup of brown sugar and ½ cup of white sugar. The cookies flattened somewhat but did not go completely limp. They had a good chewy texture and the raisins and barley flakes provided the cookies a texture of both chocolate chip and raisin oatmeal cookies. Very interesting
Bon Appètit
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