January 24, 2021 .brunch – Sausage, Potato, and Egg Burrito, Dinner - Poached Coho Salmon with Dill Cream Sauce, Steamed Green Beans, and Sautéed White Sweet Potatoes

 January 24, 2021 .brunch – Sausage, Potato, and Egg Burrito,  Dinner -  Poached Coho Salmon with Dill Cream Sauce, Steamed Green Beans, and Sautéed White Sweet Potatoes

I awakened at 7:40 and watched the news programs until 10:00 while I stripped dried lavender flowers from their stalks.

Then we made brunch.  We sautéed Jimmie Dean sausage and a cubed Yukon gold potato and ¼ onion.  When they were cooked we added three eggs whisked and scrambled the mixture until cooked.  I then toasted two large flour tortillas and filled each with half the mixture.      I doused my burrito with Cholula hot sauce. Suzette made a Bloody Mary and I made a cup of Tilapia teas with honey and lime juice.

After brunch we put up dishes, took bottles to the basement and worked on assembling the puzzle Cynthia brought us and I ate the last of the tzatziki.

At 1:00 we started watching the NFL Divisional Final between Tampa Bay and Green Bay, which Tampa Bay won.  We zoomed with the family at 2:00 for an hour.  

Then at 4:30 we watched the AFL Divisional final between Buffalo and Kansas City and shared a bag of popcorn.

We also prepped dinner.  I chopped a 1/3 cup of dill and minced ½ shallot and snapped about a lb. of green beans and put the beans in the steamer basket.

We drank the last 1/3 bottle of still slightly fizzy Gruet Brut champagne at 5:30 as we watched the game.  

Dinner

At 6:30 we began to cook dinner.  Suzette poached a 1 lb. fillet of wild caught Coho salmon ($9.95/lb. 

at Sprouts) in a poaching medium of white wine, water, butter, dill, and shallot. When the salmon was cooked she made a roux of flour and butter and used the poaching medium to make a cream sauce.

While cooking the salmon Suzette also sliced three the previously baked white sweet potatoes in butter until the edges crisped and turned brown and steamed the green beans.

I opened a bottle of 2019 Hungarian Gruner Veltliner ($6.99 at Trader Jie’s) and poured glasses.

 

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Willy came over at 6:45 and ate dinner with us-p as we watched Kansas City beat Buffalo decisively.  Willy left at 8:00 and we watched All Creatures Great and Small Masterpiece episode and went to bed.

I slept until 11:15 when I took my pills and awakened at 2:00 to write this blog and read a bit of Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris.

Bon Appetit