November 28 and 29, 2021 Lunch - Turkey Vegetable and Dumpling Soup. Dinner - 28th - PPI Mu Shu Pork with Rice. 29th - Sautéed Hamburgers, onions, mushrooms, shallot, and Pasilla chili with Sautéed Zucchini and onion flavored with lemon juice.
We rested on a Sunday after our returned from Dallas. Suzette boiled the leftover Turkey carcass in the morning to make a stock and I picked the remaining meat from the boiled carcass and added that to the stock, plus we added some frozen succotash and the last flowerets from the head of cauliflower. Suzette made dumplings, which are a lot like drop biscuits, and cooked them in the stock for a lovely lunch. On the 29th I ate the leftover Turkey and vegetable and dumpling soup for lunch again.
Sunday night I made rice and we heated the last of the Mu Shu Pork for dinner.
On Monday we were confronted by a disaster. The fridge in the garage died while we were on vacation and we returned to a freezer full of rotting food that we had to throw out. It hurt to throw out the venison, steaks, and shrimp plus so much more.
Suzette came home at 4:00 and we went to Appliance Liquidators a 4:45 and bought a new fridge to replace the one in the garage. Tony said that the new warranties include replacement insurance of $300.00 to replace spoiled food.
It seems like every Holiday Season I must replace a major appliance. Let’s hope this year it will be only one.
We still had frozen food in the indoor fridge, so tonight when we returned at 6:00 we thawed two hamburgers. I started chopping onion, mushrooms, garlic, and Pasilla chili that Suzette cooked in a large skillet with the hamburgers.
I fetched a bottle of 2011 Trader Joe’s Petit Syrah, which was delicious; a light yet smooth red wine that I paid $9.99 for in October 2015.
The steak topped with sautéed mushrooms, poblano chili, shallot, and onion was delicious, and the zucchini and onion, and poblano chili flavored with the juice of 1/2 lemon was out of this world wonderful. We made a wonderful dinner.
After dinner I tried the new Diam orange flavored chocolate covered brittle we had bought at IKEA on Saturday, which were delicious with a sip of Calvados.
We watched two more episodes of La Brea and then the end of the football game between Washington and Seattle, which Washington won, we went to bed around 10:00.
The market had a near record drop on Friday due to the Omicron variant announcement and air travel shutdown to and from South Africa. My portfolio would have suffered a historic loss of 2.4% except for the fact that Moderna rallied strongly and the portfolio ended Friday with a more moderate loss of 1.4%. The Dow fell over 900 points.
On Monday everything reversed and my portfolio had its best day in memory, up 2.7% to its highest level ever. I got very excited that we might be on a breakout, but as of 4:15 Tuesday morning the Dow futures have turned down again and are down 444 points. So the roller coaster up and down Market continues and seems to have speeded up. It is too early to determine if the Omicron variant will stop the worldwide recovery. Austria has shut down again and more countries may follow.
Bon Appetit
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