November 16, 2024 Breakfast -Mushroom and Asparagus Omelet. Lunch - French Onion Soup for Suzette and Pasta with Chicken and Yellow squash for me. Dinner - Fabada

November 16, 2024 Breakfast -Mushroom and Asparagus Omelet.  Lunch - French Onion Soup for Suzette and Pasta with Chicken and Yellow squash for me. Dinner - Fabada 

I woke up around 7:00 and typed the rest of the book club notes and then when Suzette awakened around 8:30 I made us breakfast. I sliced 4 mushrooms, a slice of red onion, I diced 3/4 inch slices from the tops of  six or seven asparagus stalks, I cut thin slices of two green onions and sliced 8 to 10 slices of Jarlsberg cheese.

I then sautéed the red onion, asparagus, and mushrooms in 2 T. of butter and 1 T. of olive oil until cooked. While the vegetables cooked I sliced strips of Jarlsberg, two pieces of Trader Joe’s Ciabatta, filled the tea kettle and turned it on and whisked four eggs.

When the vegetables seemed be cooked, I added the egg and let it cook until it started to firm. Then I added the cheese slices and let it melt and started toasting the bread and fetched the French cherry preserves and started the water boiling . I then sprinkled the green onions on top and flipped 1/2 onto the other half by using a lift of the pan to get the 1/2 airborne so I could flip 1/2 without having to lift the egg out of the pan; just a flip. 

The result was a perfect omelet. I made chai and buttered the toast and plated 1/2 of the omelet and a piece of buttered toast on each plate and we had a wonderful breakfast.

After breakfast Suzette went shopping for Christmas trees and I sent out the book notes and started watching Kuzuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech until 10:30 when I started watching the Texas v. Arkansas football game.  Texas was ahead all the game but it was close and about 1:00 Texas went ahead 20 to 10 and won, which was went Suzette returned.

We were getting hungry and Suzette filled a French Soup crock with onion soup and I sliced two slices of Ciabatta and several slices Jarlsberg cheese that she put on top of the soup and baked the crock in the oven to melt the cheese.  I put the container of leftover pasta, chicken, and yellow squash in a pasta bowl and Suzette sauced it with PPI Cream of Asparagus soup. I then heated it and poured a glass of the open Côtes du Rhône white and I sliced two corn muffins in half that I heated and buttered and put honey on.

Suzette opened the recently purchased bottle of Portuguese red wine I bought at Costco.

After lunch i lay down to read and nap and Suzette watched HGTV home remodeling shows, which she probably will do for the next four years.

Suzette came in later and napped.

I awakened at 4:30 and walked down the block and back to get some fresh air.

When I returned at 5:00 Suzette awakened and reminded me that we had tickets for the symphony at 6:00.

We dressed and drove to Popejoy Hall at UNM. The program was The opera, Tosca, written by Puccini and premiered in 1900, sung without scenery in front of the orchestra. We are not choral music fans. The music was lovely but not lovely enough to stay past the intermission at the end of the first Act.

We drove home arriving around 7:15. We watched the end of Have I Got News for You, the new CNN comedy show. And then watched Bill Maher at 8:00 and the rest of the comedy show at 10:00. I also switched back and forth from the big game of the week, No. 11 Georgia against No. 7, Tennessee. It was 17 to 17 at the half but Georgia pulled ahead toward the end to win.

At 9:00 I heated a bowl of Fabada and a buttered corn bread muffin for my dinner. Suzette was not hungry and went to bed.

I stayed up and watched the first episode of Masterpiece Theatre’s production of Sherlock Holmes until 11:30 when I went to bed and blogged this entry.

I accumulated about 3700 steps thanks in large measure to walking three blocks from the car to Popejoy.

Bon Appetit