January 26, 2021 Lunch – Salami Salad with Melted cheese and Liverwurst sandwich. Dinner – New Recipe. Grilled Lamb Chops with Delicata Squash Cream Sauce and Steamed Green Beans

 January 26, 2021 Lunch – Salami Salad with Melted cheese and Liverwurst sandwich. Dinner – New Recipe. Grilled Lamb Chops with Delicata Squash Cream Sauce and Steamed Green Beans

Today I toasted two slices of bagel and smeared them with cream cheese and garnished them with slices of onion, Gravad Lax and capers for breakfast. 

For lunch at 2:00 I made a salad with a diced aroma tomato, ¼ of a cucumber, about 10 slices of salami and three slices of red onion quartered.  I made an open faced melted cheese sandwich with a toasted slice of whole wheat bread on which I lay slices of Jarlsberg cheese that I had melted and then smeared with honey mustard and garnished with slices of Boarshead Liverwurst I bought at Sprouts last Saturday morning.

The. Sliced cornichon on the Liverwurst was a nice touch 

The market closed as I was making my salad, so checked it and was amazed that my portfolio had gained .75% today thanked to a late buying spree of Apple and strong gains by J and J and Moderna based on

 their vaccine development.  This Market is becoming surreal. This was the sixth day in a row of significant gains.  Neither Joe Biden or can be living this right.

The market will turn, but figuring the turning point is the question. 

Again I had no plan for dinner when Suzette arrived at 4:30. She had not eaten, so she made a cheese and Liverwurst sandwich and we discussed a dinner menu.  We had several lamb chops still thawed so we decided to grill four of them and steam more green beans.  But, the creative dish that Suzette came up with was to purée the delicata squash we had baked on Sunday and mix it with a cream sauce with a roux and milk to make a delicata cream sauce.  Suzette also toasted a handful of pinon nuts to give the sauce a bit more texture and flavor.   I made a tzatziki sauce with two cloves of  Garlic pressed, a cup of Greek yogurt, about 2 T. of olive oil, juice of a lemon, 3 T. Of minced red onion, and about two T. of fresh dill weed chopped,   The tzatziki did not really complement the cream sauce, but I ate some later and enjoyed the zesty oniony flavor.

I went to the basement and found a bottle of 2017 George Dublanc Cotes Du Rhone red.  I prefer Cotes Du Rhone with Grilled Lamb ($5.99 ? at Trader Joe’s).

Suzette Grilled the lamb chops to our preferred medium rare.

 She then laid a pile of the sauce in the bottom of a pasta dish with green beans on the side, and garnished the sauce with toasted pinon nuts and lay two chops on top of the pile.

 

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 We had a lovely dinner although the sauce was rather rich andi we up burping at 1:00, when I blogged this blog.

The most fun thing that happened today is that it snowed last night and our Christmas tree bird feeder was beautiful standing in the snow in our back yard this morning shortly before sun rise.  

Bon Appetit