January 2, 2022 Brunch - Blueberry and Banana Buckwheat Pancakes

January 2, 2022 Brunch - Blueberry and Banana Buckwheat Pancakes Dinner - baked  Rigatoni with olives, artichoke hearts, cherry tomatoes, marsacapone, onion, and chorizo

I watched two soccer matches today.  The second one between No. 2 Chelsea and No. 3 Liverpool was the big one. It was a great match that ended 2 to 2, which put both of them farther behind No. 1 Man City, which won its match this weekend.  I was thrilled that the American, Pulisic, scored the tying goal for Chelsea.

Suzette made us Blueberry and Banana Buckwheat Pancakes for breakfast with a mixture of wheat and buckwheat pancake mix. I heated the maple syrup.

Suzette then went to Home Depot and I took a shower, which turned out to be a great idea, because shortly after we took a walk in the Bosque, a neighbor who turned out to be her dentist rang the door bell to tell us we had a water leak.  The faucet by the west side swamp cooler had frozen and blown out.  Luckily, Willy arrived with a load of laundry at that exact moment when we were looking for the metal key to turn off the water at the meter and helped Suzette do that.

So no water, although I called the plumber to notify him that we were without water.

Suzette had bought marsacapone and a box of rigatoni pasta at Southwest Distributor’s yesterday and wanted to combine those two ingredients with the leftover pimiento, chorizo, and artichoke hearts from last night’s tapa dish plus cherry tomatoes, minced onion and garlic and olives to make a baked pasta dish.

We started cooking around 5:00 by opening a bottle of Aquino Reserva Chianti and sipping wine as we cooked.  I prepped the ingredients while Suzette boiled the pasta and sliced the chorizo and sautéed the ingredients and added the marsacapone and put them in a soufflé dish and covered the dish with grated Pecorino-Romano cheese and baked it in the oven for 30 minutes to heat and blend the ingredients thoroughly.

We drank a glass of Chianti with the pasta dish and each took seconds.  Willy returned after a walk in the Bosque and ate a bowl of pasta also.

The Fermin mild chorizo that we bought at Eurozone is such a wonderful produce that it helped make the dish.

Suzette gets excellent marks for creating this dish from buying the extra ingredients, marsacapone and rigatoni pasta, and realizing that there would be extra pimiento and artichoke hearts left from last night’s tapa dish to be ingredients in the baked pasta dish.

We sipped cordial glasses of Suzette’s newly made Limoncello after dinner as we watched the Masterpiece adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 days set in 1870.

Later I ate a bowl with scoops of pistachio and mocha chocolate chip ice creams that tasted almost like spumoni except for the missing eggnog ice cream and candied fruits.

Bon Appetit