exhileration and depression

Star Sizes

Saturday Morning. After being up pretty late, I wake at 7. Or was it 6:30. checking e-mail, Ronnie still up... Brittni had sent me this sentimental message at some time around 2:00AM. Like her dad, she loves to stay up late.

The birds are drinking from the bird bath, but the water there is hot and not refreshing, I guess. Chick-a-dee dee dee.

I call Alice and plan to come over to pick up the clothes I washed Wednesday and left for her to dry. There were some other things. I call the Huggins. Marian sounds chipper for 8:00 AM EST, and tell her the latest that we will get to join them at the beach mid week. Downloads are so easy with broadband... amazing.

I like to cook over there. She has this nice kitchen and stove. And the random items in the big refridg are a challenge. There were some mushrooms going bad fast, some sliced ham, some left-over tomato/pepper sause in two containers. Plus, a garden full of tomatoes and peppers and fresh herbs just getting ripe.

I put them together like this.

half cup chopped red onion
5 or 6 large mushrooms, coursely chopped
a variety of peppers, chopped
chopped ham....

sautee slowly in olive oil

add chopped fresh parseley and basil
when the onions are soft, add 2 cups of chopped tomatoes and some juice will form, but add a little water and a spoon of chicken base.

I wanted to add a half cup of white wine, but there was none, but Alice offered some good cognac, French, Coivoisier (sp?) A little dab will do you!
Then poached the three eggs. Two of them broke, damnit. But when done, put them on toasted red corn tortillas. Goodness, how delicious. Instant coffee made with milk and a bit of sweetened condensed milk... Oh. And cut up melon and mango....

Back home with some chores to do here, and trying to set up e-mail from my new server's address. Found an opera to listen to on Radioio http://www.radioio.com Porgy and Bess came belting out. The complete opera! It was wonderful. Saturday and the opera once more. Ricardo Mutti conduction and singers of exceptional beauty. I love that one more each time I hear it. I think Gershwin turned in the Great American Opera, so satisfying and complete, rich in melody and rhythm, and a deeply felt story of realism and hope.