January 29, 2018 Lunch – PPI Roast Pork and Catalan Spinach Tapas, Dinner – PPI Stir fried Roast Duck in Five Spice Sauce with Mixed Vegetables and deep fried tofu

January 29, 2018 Lunch – PPI Roast Pork and Catalan Spinach Tapas,  Dinner – PPI Stir fried Roast Duck in Five Spice Sauce with Mixed Vegetables and deep fried tofu

The usual yogurt, blueberries, milk, and granola for breakfast.

Then an annual meeting for Vindacia at 10:00 with Ioana and Aaron.  Aaron was not feeling well, so he left after the meeting and Ioana stayed for a cup of Earl Grey tea and a small slice of Blueberry Clafoutis.

Then a bit of work and at 11:45 I reheated the PPI dinner from about 1 week ago, namely the Roast Pork and Catalan Spinach Tapas.  I ate the large bowl of food with gusto and probably ate an apple, since both dishes have apple as an ingredient, plus onion, piñon nuts, raisins, spinach, and one small piece of roasted pork.

I then napped for about two hours and then after a couple of calls, rode to Rio Bravo in the balmy sunny 55 degree weather.

When I returned home around 4:30 Suzette had arrived home and had brought in the Mu Shu Pork, roast duck, and Deep Fried Tofu and Mixed vegetable PPIs from our Chinese dinner last Saturday evening and was munching on the last of the Mu Su Pork.

I diced the 1/3 of an eggplant, ½ of a small onion, and ten stalks of PPI steamed asparagus from the fridge plus about 1 T. of fresh ginger root and 2 tsp. of garlic, while Suzette detemmed the last 1/4 lb.  of snow peas and chopped about 1/2 cup of roasted and salted cashews from a jar of Kirtland Mixed Nuts. Then Suzette started stir frying those ingredients, while I removed the approximately ½ cup of roasted duck meat from their bones that Suzette had heated in the microwave, after which Suzette added with the tofu and mixed vegetables to the wok and heated the entire agglomeration.

When thoroughly heated Suzette filled two pasta bowls with 1/3 of the mixture and we had a lovely dinner.  I drank a cup of green tea and Suzette drank a beer.

When we finished our plates we called Willy to see if he wanted to come by to eat the final third and he declined because he had started his salmon filet dinner, so we shared the final 1/3 of the dish.

We watched the news and then two episodes of Antiques Roadshow.  At 8:30 I toasted three slices of baguette and spread them with peanut butter and honey and ate them with a cup of green tea.  Suzette ate a bit of Clafoutis.



We retired to the bed at 9:00; Suzette to sleep and I to read the new book club thriller, Deadly Cure by Lawrence Goldstone.

We have adjusted our diet to a reduced amount of carbohydrates, by eliminating most, white bread, rice, pasta.  Suzette has done better than I have.  I still will eat an occasional slice of bread with peanut butter and honey as I did this evening.

Generally, we are feeling better and Suzette has lost over ten pounds.

Bon Appetit