November 23, 2024 Breakfast - Granola, milk, yogurt, and Tropical fruit salad. Lunch - Costco Hot Dog. Dinner - PPI Pot Roast with Mashed Potatoes and Steamed Snow Peas

November 23, 2024 Breakfast - Granola, milk, yogurt, and Tropical fruit salad. Lunch - Costco Hot Dog. Dinner - PPI Pot Roast with Mashed Potatoes and Steamed Snow Peas

I woke up at 6:00 and watched Leicester lose 2 to 1 against Chelsea and ate a chocolate Croissant with a Latte Macchiato.

Then at 8:30 I and watched Arsenal beat Nottingham 3 to 0 while I made a bucket of tropical fruit salad by peeling and slicing a papaya, a pineapple, 2 1/2 mangos, and three oranges and adding the juice of two limes.

Suzette woke up at 8:00 and exercised as usual and then worked on Christmas decorations.

When the fruit salad was finished we each at a bowl of fruit salad with granola, milk, and yogurt.

                                         Sectioning a peeled orange

Then at 10:30 I watched Texas beat Kentucky 31 to 14.

We drove to Costco at 12:30 and ate a hot dog and ran into Karim and Nizar and sat with them and spent some time talking to them. We then shopped, purchasing, a 2016 Rioja Gran Reserva rated 94 points for $15.00, a bag of seasonal Ghirardelli chocolate wafers on sale, Yukon Gold potatoes, two wreaths, a pecan pie for Thanksgiving, eggs, butter, and a bag of garlic, 

We drove home and Suzette rested and I watched football. There were several significant upsets, including Alabama losing a third game in one season for the first time in decades and Texas A & M losing to Auburn.

At 5:30 I diced five small Yukon gold potatoes and started them boiling and de-stemmed a handful of snow peas.  

Suzette took over and heated the PPI Pot Roast, steamed the snow peas, and whipped the potatoes with cream and butter in the Kitchen-aid to make mashed potatoes and stacked a pile of snow peas on a pile of roast beef on a pile of potatoes.

I opened a bottle of Embroidery California Pinot Noir and we quickly decided it had been sweetened and mixed with another grape , such as merlot. We were spoiled two nights ago by the 2018 Calstar Sonoma Ridge Pinot Noir that was 100 Pinot and smooth as silk with a long lingering finish. The Embroidery had a very over-produced flavor.

During and after dinner we  dinner we watched Bill Maher and at 7:00 Have I got News for You on CNN.

Then we watched Father Brown and Death in Paradise and split a bowl of Chocolate Cherry Truffle ice cream with spoonful of brandied strawberries and whipped cream.

Suzette went to bed at 10:00 and I watched the contemporary Masterpiece Sherlock Holmes until 11:30 with a cup of chai and then blogged this entry.

Bon Appetit