January 14, 2024 Lunch - Salami Salad with Brie sandwiches. Dinner - Cod Fillets stuffed with cranberries, spinach, feta cheese, and pinon nuts

January 14, 2024 Lunch - Salami Salad with Brie sandwiches. Dinner - Cod Fillets stuffed with cranberries, spinach, feta cheese, and pinon nuts.

 I was awake from 4:30 to 6:30 and then slept until 8:00. After showering and dressing I ate a bowl of granola with milk and some blueberries and yogurt at 9:00 for breakfast.

I then drafted a document by 11:30 and walked around the block onto San Carlos for the first time in a while that gave me an opportunity to see the changing nature of our neighborhood as homes are torn down and replaced with new more modern homes such as these three on San Carlos.

 I am walking faster and farther in an effort to build my stamina. By the end of the day I accumulated 3750 steps, many of which were rapid.

At 12:30 when I returned I made a salad with romaine lettuce, a diced tomato. 1/4 cucumber peeled, seeded, and sliced, two radishes sliced, a slice of sweet onion minced, and 5 or 6 slices of rosette salami sliced into strips and dressed in the ubiquitous Caesar dressing to which I added lemon juice and olive oil.

Yesterday I had thrown out the old ammoniated brie and today brought in the new wheel of brie with a use by date of February 15, which was perfect.  So I toasted two small slices of baguette and spread Brie on them. The Brie was perfect and a wonderful addition to the salad.

I watched Man City v. Brentford for a few minutes at 12:20 and then at 1:00 switched to No. 1 Liverpool v. No. 2 Nottingham Forest. Amazingly at about the 20 minute mark Nottingham scored to take the lead. Then it was back and forth until Liverpool scored to tie.

I left at the 81st minute to go to Bill’s office to meet the Romero Brothers.

When I returned home at 4:15 I watched the news until Suzette arrived and switched to the HGTV channel, at which time I went to the bedroom and read the last chapter of West With the Night by Beryl Markham that described her fist solo crossing of the Atlantic from East to West from England to Newfoundland by man or woman in 1936.

Dinner - Suzette had wanted to prepare a roulade of salmon for dinner. I did not find salmon but thawed two strips of cod instead and at 6:00 she started prepping dinner, which turned out to be a one dish dinner of a baked cod sandwich stuffed with spinach, cranberries and pinon nuts.

I opened the bottle of Pecorino wine I bought at Trader Joe’s on Monday and it was as vibrantly fruity as the tasting notes claimed. It also among the oldest cultivated grapes. For more information see the Wikipedia article at:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecorino_(grape)

After dinner we watched Finding your Roots and I toasted three slices of baguette and spread more brie on them instead of a dessert.

We went to bed shortly after 8:00.

I ate all of my portion but Suzette ate only half of her Stuffed Cod Sandwich. It was an interesting way to make an attractive one dish meal.

Bon Appetit