July 25, 2024 Breakfast - Tabouli filled Pita Sandwich. Lunch - Fried Dumplings. Dinner - Pot Roast with Masses Potatoes and fresh Chiffonade cut Kale

July 25, 2024 Breakfast - Tabouli filled Pita Sandwich. Lunch - Fried Dumplings. Dinner - Pot Roast with Masses Potatoes and fresh Chiffonade cut Kale

This was a fun day of food.  It started with a breakfast 5at could have been Lunch around 10:00 . I heated one half of a pita and filled it with tabouli, feta cheese, and labni. I drank a cup of hot tea with it.

Then around 12:45 I sautéed 12 dumplings until they were golden brown and made a dipping sauce by mixing soy, chili oil, and a thinly sliced green onion.  I ate sliced of pickled daikon and Korean basil and drank a cup of green tea with the dumplings.

Then I spoke to Suzette around 3:00, who gave instructions for preparing the pot roast.

Dinner Pot Roast, Mashed Potaoes, and fresh Kale. - I put the roast in a shallow bowl formed with aluminum foil and covered it with two cans of cream of mushroom soup and one package of onion dip. I then wrapped it with aluminum foil and put it into a 325 degree oven to bake for 3 1/2 hours. 

I returned a library book to the library and then watched the news until 5:00 when I peeled and diced 4 carrots, 2 turnips and 2 parsnips.

I put the root vegetables into a Pyrex baking dish with about ten cloves of garlic unpeeled. Suzette took over and doused the vegetables with olive oil and covered the baking dish with aluminum foil and put it into the oven to roast with the pot roast.

I then peeled and diced 4 russet potatoes and put them in a sauce pan and covered them with water and put them on the stove to boil.

Suzette came home at 4:30 and took over the cooking.

Willy arrived at 7:00. The roasted vegetables were still not soft, so we ate the pot roast with mashed potatoes and fresh kale. The thin strips of kale resulting from the chiffonade method of slicing cooked as soon as Suzette put them on the warm mashed potatoes and put the pot roast and gravy on top of them.

I fetched a bottle of Barbera di Asti and chilled it in the freezer for an hour and poured it for dinner. It is not an expensive wine, $6.99 at Trader Joe’s and is a smooth pleasant drinking wine.

Suzette says there is enough pot roast and roasted vegetables for dinner Saturday evening when her brother Don and his wife, Bev, stay with us. We will probably sautée mushrooms and shallots to enrich and extend the pot roast sauce.

During dinner we watched Whose Feeding Phil in Dubai and when it ended Willy left and we watched Midsomer Mystery until 9:45 during which I ate a bowl of chocolate truffle and cherry ice cream with maraschino cherries and liquid.

After Midsomer Mystery we went to bed.

I sent another $50.00 to Kamala today and Suzette said she did also.

I am hoping she picks Senator Walt Kelly of Arizona as her running mate. He has great credentials, a fighter pilot, an astronaut, and husband of Gabby Gifford, who was a Congress woman and suffered the worst political violence attack in recent years.

During the day I spoke to Rebecca and Willy who have said they will come to Combarro in September.  

Bon