February 6, 2023 Lunch - Pita Sandwiches. Dinner - Sautéed Rib Steak with mushrooms

 February 6, 2023 Lunch - Pita Sandwiches. Dinner - Sautéed Rib Steak with  mushrooms 

We are getting low on lots of things and are trying to use up those things we have lots of.

We have lots of cheese, so this morning I cut 1/2 bagel into two slices and toasted and spread them with cream cheese and salmon flavored cod roe and garnished them with slices of cheese and drank a cup of tea.

Then at 1:30 I cut a pita in half and toasted the halves until they were warm and stuffed each with feta, tomato slices and labni and put two rounds of cured ham in one and four rounds of salami in the other and ate them with eight black olives and a glass of yogurt milk. They were delicious and filling but not overpowering.

Then I walked around the block.

When I returned I checked my portfolio and it was up a very small amount, due mainly to gains h the stocks Willy recommended, Palantir and Enphase that Willy recommended.

Suzette came home by 5:00 sore from a chiropractic appointment so I went to the bedroom to read and let her rejuvenate, watching home decorating programs with a glass of red wine.

At 6:15 Suzette came looking for me to start dinner.

I had thawed a small rib steak and suggested cooking it with onions and mushrooms and serving PPI couscous with it.  Suzette agreed and then asked which red wine to open and I suggested a bottle of Cherry Blossom Pinot Noir from California, a good Pinot for $5.00 sold by Trader Joe’s

I sliced seven mushrooms, one onion, a shallot, and three cloves of garlic and fetched the amontillado sherry.

Suzette cooked the five 1/2 inch thick slices of onion in butter first in a single cast iron skillet.

Then she cooked the steak, mushrooms, garlic and shallot.

Finally she added a dash of sherry, removed the steak, quartered the cooked onions and added them back to the skillet and heated the couscous in the microwave.

We poured out the last of the Pinot and as Suzette plated the couscous and sautéed vegetables, I sliced the steak and leaned slices of steak on the pile of couscous and sprinkled the dish with minced parsley. It was an incredible comfort food dinner.

I can not describe how wonderful the cooked sherry, steak, and garlic flavored onions, mushrooms, shallot were. Especially when combined with the couscous.

After dinner we watched finding your roots and then Lawrence and then went to bed.

Today the DC Circuit court issued its opinion that Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution in the Jan. 6th criminal trial, saying “No person is above the law.”

At least for now the judiciary is holding firm against Trump’s attempts to become a dictator.

The big test will be whether the Supreme Court disqualifies him from running to for office based on Section 3  on the 14th Amendment.

Disqualification will end Trumpism and assert the power of the Supreme Court.

Bon Appetit