November 26, 2017 Brunch – Chicken and Mushroom Frittata. Dinner – Brats with Apple and Pear Cabbage and Green Beans

November 26, 2017 Brunch – Chicken and Mushroom Frittata. Dinner – Brats with Apple and Pear Cabbage and Green Beans

This was a lovely restful day with few carbs.

I woke at 5:00 and began working at my desk on the docketing statement.  At 7:00 I started looking at the news programs, which today were mostly about sexual harassment.

At 9:30 I began cooking breakfast.  I diced ½ chicken breast, three oz. of red onion, 2 oz. of green bell pepper, ½ avocado, four small cloves of garlic, four portobello mushrooms, and five or six slices of Swiss Gruyere cheese.  I sautéed the vegetables in butter and olive oil and when the had softened, added the chicken and five small whisked eggs eggs with a dash of salt and pepper.  After a few minutes we added the Swiss cheese and the Suzette suggested we make a frittata, so we added a handful each of grated Cheddar cheese and Parmesan cheese and the baked the top of the frittata under the broiler in the oven.

Suzette made a Bloody Mary and I drank chamomile red lotus root tea.

After breakfast I went back to bed and slept until Suzette awakened me at 12:30, so we could ride bike to Rio Bravo.

When we returned from our bike ride at around 2:00 we decided to go shopping.  We drove to Goodwill where I found a pair of Italian dress pants for $5.49.  We then drove to Sprouts so Suzette could buy her favorite turmeric and black pepper capsules for her joint pain.

After Sprouts Suzette was looking for trash cans for her mom and suggested we go to Sam’s Club, so we drove to Sam’s Club in Renaissance, where she found a set of trash cans on sale and Gruet still Rose for $7.98 per bottle.  We bought two bottles.

We then drove home and snacked on Jarlsberg cheese.  I toasted a slice of rye bread and covered it with slices of cheese.  Suzette ate slices without bread.

We had not seen any fish we liked so we had decided to cook the Brats I had bought at Sprouts last week and braise Cabbage with Apple and pear and steam some green beans.  Suzette sliced the small head of cabbage and started sautéing it in olive oil while I cored and diced an apple and a pear.

She then boiled the Brats in Negra Modelo beer and then sautéed them with the apples and pears.  We snapped the green beans and sautéed them with the cabbage.  I fetched the mayo, mustard, catsup, and horseradish and put them on the table and opened a Negra for Suzette and an Especial for me.  Suzette plated two plates with cabbage and green beans on the bottom then piled a brat and sautéed apple and pear on top.

Here is a picture.

We found the food to lack a lot of flavor but began feeling better as we realized that was just our bodies responding to the lack of carbs.

After dinner we soaked in the hot tub for a long time and then went to bed around 9:39 after watching a really good Green Bay vs. Pittsburgh football game.  We slept really well.

Bon Appetit