December 27, 2022 Lunch - Posole and a Tamale. Dinner - New Recipe Sautéed with Vanilla Sauce and Sautéed Rice with Green beans.

 December 27, 2022 Lunch - Posole and a Tamale. Dinner - New Recipe Sautéed with Vanilla Sauce and Sautéed Rice with Green beans.

I ate the usual breakfast of granola with milk and yogurt and tropical a fruit salad.

Then at 12:30 I ate a bowl of Posole with a tamale garnished with dried oregano, diced onion, and lime juice. 

 Dinner was very special.  Suzette sautéed the. 2 lb. Salmon filet and made a vanilla sauce from a recipe on the package in which the vanilla beans were packed.

I watched Man U. Beat Nottingham Forest 3 to 0 during and after lunch.

When Suzette arrived at 3:30 we drove to the Lowe’s and bought milk, tonic water, club soda, a bag of 7 small avocados, horseradish, and corn chips.

When we returned home a made guacamole with five of the avocados that were perfectly creamy, plus minced onion, a clove of minced garlic, 1/2 tsp. of salt, three or four dashes of Cholula red sauce, and about 1/3 cup of chopped cilantro leaves.  It was excellent.

I then snapped the 2/3 lb. of green beans and stripped the soft inner pulp away from the tough husk of one of the vanilla beans into Anne ameled sauce pan in which Suzette made the sauce.

We called Willy to invite him for dinner and he arrived about 1/2 hour later as Suzette was cooking it.

Suzette had fetched a bottle of Richard Riesling ($4.99 at Trader Joe’s) that we opened and sipped as Suzette finished cooking.

Both the sautéed rice and green beans and the Salmon and made the sauce.

We all enjoyed the new dish.  I have never had a vanilla sauce such as the one tonight. It was a pleasant change from our usual sauces.

We sipped cognac from the new bottle of Maison Surrene and watched three episodes of Emily in Paris after dinner and a call to Marty and Yo Yo.

Suzette went to bed at 9:00, but I stayed up to watch the news and Oklahoma State lose its Bowl game with Wisconsin.

Bon Appetit