November 26, 2024 Breakfast - Granola, milk, yogurt, and Tropical Fruit Salad. Lunch - Bologna Salad with melted cheese sandwiches, Dinner - Lamb Kebabs with Mediterranean Salad on Lettuce.

November 26, 2024 Breakfast - Granola, milk, yogurt, and Tropical Fruit Salad. Lunch - Bologna Salad with melted cheese sandwiches, Dinner - Lamb Kebabs with Mediterranean Salad on Lettuce.

I worked all day today. Henry arrived just after 8:00 when I was still in my pajamas. I threw on a robe and met with him on a complicated residential house purchase for and hour and explained the elements of a purchase and the financing and title policy.

After he left I ate a bowl of granola with milk, yogurt, and lots of tropical fruit salad.

I checked the mail and reviewed and responded to scheduling queries for the LRGA hearing. The market was down and up today with a slight sell off at the close that left my portfolio just under where my portfolio finished two days ago. I guess you would call this market volatile with spreading gains in unloved stocks and the rest of the market moving sideways.

At 1:30 I made a salad with sliced Cucumber, radish, red onion, and romaine lettuce, and a diced tomato.

I also toasted two slices of baguette and melted slices of Jarlsberg cheese on them in the microwave.

I thawed a lb. of ground lamb at lunch and at 6:00 we decided to make lamb kebabs and a Mediterranean Salad. Suzette prepared the lamb by mixing the lamb with an egg, some minced onion, z’atar, ground cumin, and ground basil from our garden. She then sautéed the small meat loafs in olive oil. 

I diced two vine ripe tomatoes, sliced 1 1/3 cucumbers, peeled and seeded, and minced about 3 oz. of red onion and about 1/4 cup of fresh parsley, to which I added 2 T. of olive oil, 1/2 tsp. of salt, 1/2 cup of yogurt, lemon juice, and a pressed clove of garlic.  The result was a soupy salad.

When everything was ready Suzette laid four kebabs on a leaf of lettuce on each plate and each of us added several spoonfuls of Salad. I added more lettuce to create more of a salad.

I opened a bottle of bottle of 2020 Chateau Courac from Cotes Du Rhone that was amazingly smooth and which garnered a 95 rating. I knew it was a really good wine the minute I tasted it. I guess I am finally developing my wine palate. Suzette agreed that it was a very good wine. I think I bought it at Costco.

This is the best wine we have drunk in a long time and I highly recommend it

This meal is a perfect example of how we quickly cook delicious meals. We discussed the menu and decided upon a Mediterranean salad with lamb kebabs. 

Since the salad required a lot of chopping and no cooking I prepared that dish. We decided to cook the lamb into little meatloafs seasoned with ground basil, cumin, and z’attar and an egg. Since the kebabs were to be sautéed, Suzette prepped them, because she usually makes our meatloafs.

That division of labor produced two excellent dishes. I toasted three small slices of baguette but our decision was to serve the kebabs on fresh romaine lettuce leaves to make yhe dinner more of a salad and less of a sandwich.

We watched Finding You Roots and some news, that was finally positive today because Israel and Lebonan signed a cease fire in their war.

Bon Appetit