December 14, 2025 Snack - Pain au Chocolate Breakfast - Scrambled eggs with chard and cabbage, toast, and bacon. Snack - knackebrod with cheese Dinner - Sandwiches

December 14, 2025 Snack - Pain au Chocolate  Breakfast - Scrambled eggs with chard and cabbage, toast, and bacon. Snack - knackebrod with cheese  Dinner - Sandwiches

I awakened around 8:30. Willy was watching Chelsea v. Everton PL soccer and I joined him and ate a pain au chocolate with a cup of chai.

Then around 10:00 Willy made breakfast. He scrambled eggs with chopped red cabbage and rainbow chard and fried five slices of thick cut bacon. I toasted and buttered three slices of baguette and smeared them with berry preserves for a lovely brunch.

I spent most of the day peeling the zest from 13 lemons. Yesterday we went to Total wine and bought a. 1.75 liter bottle of grain alcohol. Today i added the peel of the 13 lemons to the alcohol. I then took a two hour nap. At dinner time Suzette took the infused alcohol to the basement to infuse for 20 to 30 days. 

Suzette also made three large tropical fruitcakes today using Martha Stewart’s recipe. She made the batter with eggs butter, molasses, and flour and combined the dried fruit that had been brandied overnight and chopped pecans. Then she baked the fruitcakes at 250 degrees for three hours.

When she took the fruitcakes out of the oven she wrapped them in cotton fabric soaked in rum and drizzled rum over the fruitcakes before putting them in the basement.

Dinner - We did not wish to cook dinner so when Willy called we asked him to pick up a loaf of sour dough bread, avocados, and sprouts. He also bought sauerkraut, chicken salad, and a container of olive and feta salad.

We each constructed our own sandwiches. Suzette made a melted  chicken and cheese sandwich in a skillet. 

I made the Zardoz sandwich that Nick used to make at his bar in Fort Worth. I toasted two slices of bread, spread Mayo on one slice and then lay a layer of avocado slices on the Mayo and then warm chicken slices. On the other slice of bread I smeared cream cheese and lay a layer of alfalfa and mixed greens sprouts and then several leaves of romaine lettuce. I then joined the two slices together. I also ate a green onion, several olives, and three slices of dill pickle with my Zardoz sandwich.

Willy was the most creative. He made a sardine, chicken salad, sauerkraut, Greek Yogurt, salad for his sandwich and added sprouts.

After dinner we watched Dallas lose to the Minnesota Vikings and exit the running for the play offs, as did Kansas City today.

At 10:00 I played with my Coweries and then finished this blog and went to bed.

We usually cook on Sundays and today was no exception. We will have fruitcake for Christmas.

Bon Appetit