November 24, 2020 Lunch – PPI Fish and Chicken Noodle and Rice Soup Dinner – Tandoori Roasted Chicken with Sautéed Asparagus, cherry tomatoes , Shallot, and Pinon Nuts

 November 24, 2020 Lunch – PPI Fish and Chicken Noodle and Rice Soup Dinner – Tandoori Roasted Chicken with Sautéed Asparagus, cherry tomatoes, Shallot, and Pinon Nuts

I slept until 8:00. When I turned on the TV everything in the Market was moving up.  By the end of the day at 2:00 the Dow had set an all time high of breaking through $30,000 and my portfolio rose 1 ½ % to within 1 %  of my portfolio’s all time high.

I spent the morning with a bowl of granola, fruit salad and yogurt re-filing the pleadings I tried to file yesterday and learned two new skills I did not previously know, one technical and one procedural.  The technical one was how to compress a file.  There is a free app at smallpdf.com that compresses your file for you.  The procedural lesson learned was how the court clerk requires one to package a pleading.  With the guidance of the clerk and Aaron’s assistance in merging several documents into one package behind a lead document I was able to file the 14 documents in three packages that were accepted for filing.

This took until lunch so at 1:20 I heated the PPI Fish and Chicken Noodle and Rice Soup and ate as the market closed.

This was also a great day for America.  Biden introduced his picks for his National Security team state Department and Kerry as his Climate envoy. 

I could not be happier.  The market seemed to respond positively.

I worked until 4:30 when Suzette arrived and then prepped the chicken she brought home from Costco this morning by dusting it with Tandoori seasoning and impaling it on the Spandex vertical cooking rack in a Pyrex 9 X 9 inch baking dish filled to ½ inch with water.

At 5:00 I left the roasting to Suzette and took a ¾ mile walk around the neighborhood. Suzette roasted the chicken for 15 minutes at 425 degrees and then 1 hour 45 minutes at 350 degrees. The chicken was mostly done except there was some redness in the inner thighs, so I cut the hind quarters off and Suzette microwaved the for 2 minutes to completely cook them.

 

  

  Sautéed Asparagus, cherry tomatoes , Shallot, and Pinon Nuts

We cooked another amazing tomato dish.  Tonight Suzette halved about 1 lb. of the ripened cherry tomatoes from our garden plus about seven stalks of asparagus chopped into ½ inch pieces, a medium shallot minced, and a handful of pinon nuts and sautéed those ingredients in a large cast iron skillet in butter and olive oil. As the ingredients sautéed I added six or seven of the oven dried tomatoes we prepared a few days ago.  The result was very delicious and a lovely way to celebrate the end of our harvest.

 

  

 

I opened a bottle of white Bordeaux that went well with the chicken. 

After dinner Suzette made more Pecan Dream tarts for dessert for the Thanksgiving meal at the Center, while I re-watched the episode of Finding Your Roots that traced the family trees of Larry David and Bernie Sanders.  They were almost 100;% Ashkenazi Jews with roots in Poland (Galicia) and Prussia (East Germany) and the big surprise at the end was that they shared enough DNA to be cousins.  

At 8:00 we watched another episode of The British Baking Show and went to bed at 10:00.  Suzette to sleep and I to blog.

Suzette made a grocery run this morning to Costco and purchased lots of cheeses, sausage, Belgium chocolates, mushrooms, butter, peanut butter and chocolate kisses for a cookie she wants to make, cream, and several other items we needed and some extravagances.

Bon Appetit