July 27, 2025 Brunch - Caprese Omelette. Dinner - Sautéed Sea Scallops, snow peas, and cherry tomatoes with Cauliflower and Red Cabbage Couscous

July 27, 2025 Brunch - Caprese Omelette. Dinner - Sautéed Sea Scallops, snow peas, and cherry tomatoes with Cauliflower and Red Cabbage Couscous

We are trying to cook creative low calories dishes these days to lose some weight and feel better.

It is more difficult for me because I need a certain amount of carbohydrates and protein to feed my muscles, but I have been successful so far without snacks between meals.

Today I rested and we ate only two meals but also worked from 2:00 until 4:00 a.m. to begin to whip my pleading into shape

I woke up again at 6:30 and discovered that the final stage of the Tour started at 7:30.

I watched for a few minutes and when I saw that it was mainly celebratory until the peleton reached the center of Paris and the three loops around the Sacre Coeur Basilica and the length of the Champs Elysees.

So I switched back forth from the bike race and Fareed Zacharia from 8:00 to 9:00 and then ABC and CBS news from 9:00 to 10:00.

Around 9:00 I went to the garden and picked about three dozen basil leaves and we prepared a Caprese Omelette with Roma tomato slices, chopped basil, thin slices of red onion, and Mozzarella cheese l it was delicious and slightly stringy as we cut and pulled it up into pieces.  I toasted two small slices of baguette and spread them with butter and French four berry preserves.

After-brunch I sliced a baguette into cubes that Suzette then tossed with olive oil, lavender, and salt and roasted in the oven to made croutons.

At 10:00 I watched the EUFA women’s championship between England and Spain that England won on penalty kicks after 120 minutes of regular time.

After the bike race and brunch Suzette took 3/4 lb. of sea scallops out of the freezer for dinner and then went to Home Depot to buy lots of stuff for her new maintenance man’s projects.

After the EUFA championship I read and rested until 4:00 when we booked our flights to Japan and back in November and then at 5:00 we prepared dinner.

I went to the garden and picked about ten sprigs each of thyme and lavender that I then stripped of their leaves/flowers.

Suzette sliced about ten snow peas into long thin slices and halved about 8 cherry tomatoes and sautéed those ingredients plus the thyme with the scallops and reheated some of the PPI Red cabbage and cauliflower couscous for dinner.

I fetched a bottle of Faustino Ulicia Albariño from the garage and poured a dash of it into the scallops and vegetables and then poured glasses of it for dinner.

Scallops are exceedingly low in calories, as are cauliflower and red cabbage so dinner was well below the calorie limit for losing weight.

After dinner at 6:00 we watched Miss Fisher, then the historical evidence of Jack the Ripper, then Grantchester during which we shared a bowl of clafoutis and whipped cream.  At 9:00 Suzette went to bed and I watched Atlantic Crossing and at 10:00 I joined her and we researched the trip to Japan until 10:30 when she went to bed and I blogged.

Bon Appetit