November 17, 2024 Breakfast - BLT Sandwiches Lunch - PPI Chicken Curry. Dinner - Stir Fried Vegetables with Red Pork

November 17, 2024 Breakfast - BLT Sandwiches Lunch - PPI Chicken Curry. Dinner - Stir Fried Vegetables with Red Pork 

I woke up at 7:00 and watched news programs until 10:00.

I then fried four strips of bacon and went to take a shower and Suzette took over.

When I returned to the kitchen the bacon was fried and drained. Suzette wanted a BLT, so we toasted slices of whole wheat sandwich bread and I fried two eggs and then we made our BLT. As usual mine were open faced ad Suzette’s was a standard sandwich.

After breakfast at around 10:30 we talked to Luke for a while. He is planning to come to Albuquerque for Christmas with his friend and then live in L.A. for January and February.

At 11:00 we drove to the recycling center and then Costco. Suzette bought cranberries, Collagen protein powder, smoke alarms, and brown sugar to make cookies. We bought olive oil, mushrooms, a beef roast, flowers, goat cheese, and a balsam pine wreath for Christmas decorations.   And I bought a bottle of Kirkland Gigondas and a Pinot Grigio and another package of French Chocolate Croissants plus eye vitamins and eye drops.

It was starting to rain as we left the parking lot and drove home.

When we got home I watched some football and Suzette worked until 2:30 and then we heated the PPI chicken curry Suzette thawed yesterday. It was a little spongy in texture but the flavor was good and we enhanced with our apricot chutney and I added some Swad mixed pickle.

                                                The end of the meal

We shared a Carlsberg beer.

Then I rested and napped until 4:30 when we hung the Helmuth Naumer 30 x 40 inch pastel we bought at the Santa Fe Art auction last week that we picked up on Friday over our bed. It looks great.

Suzette watched her HG TV shows and I read about the Celts until 6:00 when I started chopping vegetables for dinner. I sliced a zucchini, 1/2 of a yellow squash. 1/3 of an onion, the last four baby bok Choy, about ten sugar snap peas, four mushrooms, 1/4 of a yellow bell pepper, and some ginger, and garlic.

I also diced the approximately 1/2 lb. pork shoulder we thawed yesterday and marinated it in soy, Mirin, and Cornstarch to coat it so it would be red cooked, which gives the meat a slight crust that is a pleasant variation in texture.

Suzette fetched the wok and heated peanut oil in it and stir fried the hard vegetables and ginger and garlic

She removed them from the wok and then cooked the red pork, then she added the soft vegetables and mushrooms to the wok.

I made a seasoning sauce with sherry, soy, rice vinegar p, salt and sugar, and sesame oil that we added to the stir fry after Suzette returned the cooked hard vegetables to the wok. She covered the wok to steam everything to cook it into a lightly thickened stew. We plated some of the dish in pasta bowls.

I made green tea and Suzette drank a Negra Modelo as we watched the finale of the Marigold Murder Club on Masterpiece Theatre.

After the mystery we watched The L. A. Chargers beat the Cincinnati Bengals and talked to Willy for a while.

After we said goodbye to Willy went to bed at around 9:45.

I stayed up to watch Sophie and Luna, a very smart German detective mystery and then blogged this entry and then went to bed.

Bon Appetit