January 19, 2021 Lunch – Chicken Dumpling Miso Soup with Fish Balls and Scallop. Dinner – Spaghetti Sauce and Cheese Bruschetta

 January 19,  2021 Lunch – Chicken Dumpling Miso Soup with Fish Balls and Scallop. Dinner – Spaghetti Sauce and Cheese Bruschetta 

Today I started at 8:00 with a bowl of granola, blueberries, ½ of a banana sliced, yogurt, and milk.

I worked in the morning and at 1:30 I made a soup for lunch.  I wanted to eat as soon as possible so I used per-cooked Chicken mini dumplings instead of dried noodles plus sugar snap peas, a Scallop, three fish balls, three leaves of Napa cabbage sliced, 4 mushrooms sliced  ½ shallot minced, a heaping T. of red miso, chicken stock, and water.  The soup was delicious but I had a bad reaction to it about an hour later.

    

The market was wonderful today erasing all of Friday’s sell off and returning my portfolio within ,66% of its new all time highI think the Biden Presidency could be good for the market. I am fully invested in stocks, so I am watching it carefully.

Biden Inauguration Lasagna

Suzette came home a bit after 4:00 just as i was showering and took a nap.  She rested for a while and at 5;00 went to the kitchen and made pasta with eggs, flour, and water and used the pasta rolling machine to 

make flat sheets of fresh pasta. I sliced mushrooms and she whirled spinach.  Suzette had bought a

   

    

We sautéed about 11/2 lb. of sliced mushrooms in butter and olive oil.

Suzette fetched and heated the spaghetti sauce we made with ground veal and beef and pork sausage and crushed tomatoes and onions and garlic and sweet red wine.

She then constructed the lasagna.

  

In a 13 x 10 inch Pyrex baking dish Suzette layered layered sheets of pasta, a layer of spinach, a layer of ricotta cheese and spaghetti sauce, a layer of sautéed mushrooms, ricotta cheese, pasta.  These layers filled the dish almost to the top so we refrigerated the lasagna and will add the last layer of spaghetti sauce and mozzarella tomorrow before we bake the dish. We could not decide on a dinner menu until Suzette suggested bruschetta.  I sliced two 4 inch long pieces of French baguette in half.  Suzette carved a groove in the center of each piece and filled it with ricotta cheese.  Then she covered the pieces with spaghetti sauce and garnished the tops with grated mozzarella and baked them in the oven for about fifteen minutes to heat them and melt the cheese.

  While they were cooking I grated Parmesan cheese and poured red wine.  I opened a bottle of Cherry Blossom Pinot Noir from California and we ate a delicious small dinner.  

  After dinner we ate a chocolate chip cookie tuille with the wine and that was pretty good also

We are hoping Joe Biden’s favorite Ice cream arrives by the inauguration so we can have our entire Joe Biden Inauguration meal.

Bon Appetit