I toasted one 1/3 slice of bagel and spread cream cheese on it and lay thin slices of onion on that and finally pieces of smoked whitefish and ate it with a cup of green tea.
At 12:30 I heated the PPI brat with onions and apple cider glaze with some PPI Couscous and drank the last glass of French apple cider with it in an effort to clear out some of the things in the fridge.
After lunch I went to Costco and picked up several prescriptions. When I returned home I called Willy and discovered his friend was arriving early and we were delaying the moving of his art until tomorrow.
The roofers finished the repair of the roof around 3:30 and I paid Chapado and thanked him.
Also, I finished reading Lawrence of Marrakech and downloaded Bad Blood by Gerreyrou, the book club selection for this month, and started reading it. Suzette came home around 5:00 with a bag of 36 live oysters. I put them in a baking dish and covered them with a wet dish towel and put them in the fridge. Suzette then brought in a large bowl with baked squash. I transferred the tropical fruit salad to a small bowl and put the squash into the larger bowl that had been vacated and then ate the last bit of pickled herring to eliminate another bottle from the fridge. After I consolidated a number of items, we decided to cook the chicken leg quarters I had bought yesterday at Smith’s and heat the remaining Couscous with Chard with some green beans I had bought last week at Lowe’s to reduce the load in the fridge further.
We had a bottle of Gruet Chenin Blanc chilled, so we decided to drink that with the meal.
The Bobby Flay method of cooking is to rub the chicken with a combination of paprika, fennel, cinnamon, and cumin and then to braise it in a skillet weighted down with another skillet filled with water for about fifteen minutes and then to bake it for 20 minutes in the oven. This crisps the skin and cooks the chicken much faster.
Suzette snapped the green beans and sautéed then in a skillet with the PPI Couscous with Chard and heated the last of the creamed parsnips.
After dinner we set the dining room table and Suzette fetched three bottles of Gruet champagne from the basement and put them in the garage fridge to chill. During dinner it started to snow and by the time we went to bed there was a blanket of snow on everything including our newly roofed roof. We toasted my decision to get the roof repaired five hours before the first snow of the year.
A lay down to read my new book at 7:30 and Suzette followed at 9:30.
When I awakened at midnight there was a glow from the snow and street lights.
The front yard
Bon Appetit
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