November 29, 2024 Lunch - Turkey and cheese sandwich. Dinner -Turkey Divine

 November 29, 2024 Lunch - Turkey and cheese sandwich. Dinner -Turkey Divine

When I woke up I watched the market open and ate a Romanian cheese turnover made with phyllo dough and a French chocolate croissant with a latte Machiatta. 

Perhaps the abundance of food choices we have is reason enough to be thankful.

Nvda was up $3.90 to $138.90 per share, so I decided to make my Required Minimum Distribution from my IRA. I called Wells Fargo around 10:00. There is no precise way to make a distribution of the kind I wanted to make that was a transfer of shares from an IRA account to a personal account because you must file a form and Wells Trade processes it and then within a day makes the journal entry at whatever price there is at that time. So I signed the form and guessed a number of shares that would approximate the distribution amount based on $138.80 per share and the price went down from there and closed at $138.25.

So I will need to make another transfer and perhaps several to hit the RMD amount.

At noon Suzette was hungry and asked me if I wanted a turkey sandwich. Of course, I said, “Yes.”

So she put Mayo on two slices of bread for each of us and turkey and slices of Jarlsberg cheese inside and buttered the outsides and grilled the sandwiches on both sides to a golden brown. It was a wonderful sandwich. The soft bread, avocado, and cheese melted in my mouth. We put lettuce leaves in the sandwich and slices of avocado We drank the last of the Le Pont Bandol rose, which was really heavenly.

Then I rested until 2:00. When I awakened I checked the market close and was delighted that my portfolio had made up almost half of its recent drop in prices from the all time high.

At 3:00 we walked around the block. It was good to get some fresh air.

When we returned home we put a new screen on our back door using the kit Suzette bought at Home Depot.  It was really easy after we watched a video.

Dinner - We then watched a lovely movie on Netflix titled “A Family Affair” and then football with a break at 7:00 to cook dinner. Suzette made my family’s favorite day after Thanksgiving dinner, Turkey Divine, a dish my mother cooked almost every year.

Suzette started by cutting the flowerets off a head of broccoli and steaming the flowerets. She placed a layer of cooked turkey dressing in a 9 x 9 inch Pyrex baking dish and then lay a layer of cooked Turkey on top of the dressing.  Then she heated broth to re-emulsify the dressing and poured that diluted leftover Turkey gravy with some added broth over the ingredients. The.n she chopped the broccoli flowerets and added them and finally I grated about a cup of cheddar cheese and sprinkled the cheese on top of the other ingredients. We actually made a change to the recipe and added about 1 cup of sliced portobello mushrooms.

 Suzette baked the Turkey Divine for 30 minutes in a 350 degree oven until the cheese melted and the ingredients started to Bubble around the ends.

                                       The dish before the cheese topping and baking

                                                      The finished dish after baking

I opened a bottle of Acrobat Oregon Pinot Gris and we had a lovely dinner. The dish was simple and delicious. This version was more like a stew with standing broth in the bottom.

Turkey Divine is a complete meal in one dish using normal leftovers from Thanksgiving that my mother created and that we ate every year after Thanksgiving, . I even think those large 16 lb. turkeys and extra baked stuffing were designed with this dish in mind more so than the desire for abundance at the Thanksgiving table.

Bon Appetit