January 9 and 10, 2021

 January 9 and 10, 2021

January 9, was a food disaster.  I made a beautiful ham, Swiss Gruyere cheese , mushroom, and red bell pepper omelet, but as it turned out the ham had gone bad.  Suzette, the clever girl, did not finish her1/2 but I did and that led to a disaster out trip to the bathroom a couple of hours later.  We had lost our appetite for food but at 4:00 we ate a. Owl of Posole with a Tamale and a toasted flour tortilla.

That was the extent of our meals for the day except for a lovely ice cream sandwich Suzette made us in the evening with Blue Bell vanilla ice cream between two paper thin tuilles.  The tuilles were actually created by adding too much baking soda and too little flour to my last batch of chocolate chip cookies.  When there is too much leavening and insufficient flour to prevent the soda from escaping into the air, the cookies collapse into dense flat wonderfully chewy tuilles.

January 10, 2021

I woke up early to watch the  news.  It looks like Trump will make history as the first President to be impeached twice and the only President to be impeached for sedition against the U.S. because he will probably not admit that he did anything wrong or resign.

The next few days will be historic, just as the events of last week were.

I am back on food today.  At 9:00 I toasted two slices of a plain bagel, smeared them with cream cheese, lay slices of red onion and Gravad Lax on them  and spread them with Swedish Lax Sauce and made a cup of tea. 

At 11:00 we went for a1/2 mike walk and then Suzette and I ordered an Instacart delivery from Sprouts.  We ordered 12 or thirteen items, including sour cream, milk, spinach, asparagus, green onions, green beans, apples, bananas, broccoli, and acorn, butternut, and delice squashes.

We were thrilled to have fresh vegetables for a change.

We hope to be vaccinated with the first shot on Wednesday and do not want to expose ourselves to the rapidly expanding Covid before then.

We usually skip lunch on Sunday.  I did drink a cup of tea and ate a couple of cookies in the afternoon.

 At 5:00 we started cooking I had a simple idea for dinner; to roast four chicken thighs in a Pyrex baking dish with four Yukon Gold potatoes tossed in olive oil, salt, and pepper and serve that with a steamed green vegetable.

  I washed and dried the thighs and then cubed the potatoes and doused them with olive oil Suzette took over and salted and peppered them and We squeezed juice of ½ lemon over them and covered them with aluminum foil and baked then for an hour in a 350 degree oven on convection.  After we uncovered the baking dishes flipped the potatoes and chicken to crisp them and cooked them another 20to30 Minutes.

   Suzette snapped ten asparagus stalks and doused them with olive oil and salt and roasted them in the oven for the last fifteen minutes with the chicken, potatoes, and a butternut squash.

 

  

I opened a bottle of Belles Vignes Sauvignon Blanc from Bordeaux, $4.99 at Trader Joe’s 

It was a thrill to eat a delicious dinner of fresh ingredients.

Bon Appetit