July 8, 2018 Brunch – Shrimp Omelet. Dinner – Baked Squash stuffed with Black Brandywine Tomato and Sausage and Mushroom sauce

July 8, 2018 Brunch – Shrimp Omelet. Dinner – Baked Squash stuffed with Black Brandywine Tomato and Sausage and Mushroom sauce

I woke up a little after and watched an interesting show on PBS about consciousness, which correlated with The Michael Pollan book I am reading on consciousness: How to change your mind.

I am beginning to think that spiritual consciousness is a universal that we can connect to through meditation and other heightened experiences such as the use of psychedelic drugs.  That is why the Buddhist Sanga is such a strong bond, because we share the collective experience of spiritual consciousness when meditating in a group.

At 7:00 I ate a bagel with cream cheese, with slices of red onion and Lax garnished with a few capers and watched the morning news shows interspersed with news of the rescue of the trapped youth soccer players in Thailand.

Suzette got hungry at 9:00, so I thawed out about 8 or 9 heads off shrimp.  I diced two slices of red onion, four or five cloves of garlic, and the last ½ avocado.  Suzette peeled the shrimp and made the omelet with onion, garlic, shrimp, and some chopped black Brandywine tomatoes.  The omelet was delicious.  I loved the black Brandywine’s rich satisfying taste.

I diced a medium onion and Suzette then made a tomato sauce with it and the rest of the fresh black Brandywine tomatoes, two Italian sausages, oregano, garlic, and sliced mushrooms.

At 10:30 we drove to Michael’s to pick up Suzette’s framing order of eight pictures.

Afterwards we went to Istanbul Café and bought lots of middle eastern foods.  I bought a 2 lb. container of halvah, a quart of  yogurt drink, a small jar of taramasalata, and both black dried olives in a plastic container and a jar of green cracked olives in thyme. Suzette bought grains for her baker to use to make breads.

We then drove home.  I drank a yogurt drink and spread some taramasalata on rye hard bread for a snack.

Stuffed Squash

At 5:15 Suzette said, “I am hungry.” So, she started cooking.  She removed the seeds from the three large squash she bought at the Farmer’s Market yesterday for $1.00 each, filled the emptied area in each squash with the tomato sauce she had made and garnished the squash with Pecorino Romano and Monterrey Jack cheese and baked the squashes in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes until the squashes were tender and the cheese melted.

When the squash were removed from the oven Suzette asked for a Chianti, so I went to the basement and found a 2014 Ruffino Chianti , which I uncorked and poured into the glasses Suzette had set on the table.

The wines were returned to the basement after the basement was mitigated after the water heater flooded the basement in no particular order, which has allowed me to see bottles I had forgotten I had, such as the 2014 Ruffino Chianti.  The Chianti was very smooth and yet had a commanding acidity that was not bitter,  mature would be the better description.

I could not resist the baked squash filled with the wonderful dark delicious black Brandywine tomato sauce.  I ate two and Suzette ate the other one.

We watched Sixty Minutes , which had a story on the Voyager space craft that was launched in 1977 by NASA that is still transmitting information back to Earth from 13 Billion miles away.  It flew by Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune and is now traveling through interstellar space at 39,000 miles per hour toward our nearest neighboring star.  Pretty impressive what man on Earth has achieved.  Then another great story about Christian Pulisic, the young super star soccer player from Hershey, Pa, who now plays for Dortmund and for the US team.
His parents were interviewed extensively and both played soccer in college at James Mason and his dad is a soccer coach and coached Christian when he was little.  A very intimate and heart warming story.

We watched our favorite PBS Masterpiece Series of the summer, “Endeavour” about the young Morris during the early years of his
Career as a detective for the Oxford police.

We read a bit after the show and then went to bed.

I awakened at 12:30 and blogged this blog and drank water to help digest my dinner.

Bon Appetit