I Love Cooking!

I could hardly wait to go shopping yesterday morning because I was looking forward to cooking much of the afternoon. François and Eoin are coming for dinner tomorrow, and they are awesome cooks; they are a delight to cook for because they are so appreciative of my cooking. They’re coming because I told Eoin about my way of cooking white fish—particularly, the delicious green sauce with which I serve the dish—and he was very keen to taste it.

We went for our morning walk before we went to Nester’s to shop, and then I came home to make a schedule for all the cooking I wanted done. At 11:40, I went to the clinic to get my pneumonia shot. This is the second of three vaccines I’m getting on the advice of Jennifer, my NP. I have one more shingles shot to get, and I’m not looking forward to it because I am likely to be mighty sick the following day. They say if you get sick after the first shot, which I did, you have an even worse response after the second shot. Imagine, I am paying six hundred bucks to get sick for two days.

When I got back from the clinic, we all had lunch and then I got busy making first, a rice curry salad that’s just for me. It’s not for Eoin and François tomorrow night. It is delicious, but it aggravated my asthma to cook it and to eat it. But that isn’t going to stop me from eating every single rice grain of it. By the time I was done, I wanted a rest and then I took Her Highness for our afternoon walk in Elder Cedar. We went early, but I was not up for more cooking. I wanted to rest and read a little before dinner time.

We walked in deliciously mild temperatures. It was 8°, and there were few people in the grove, so we had a very lovely time walking slowly through the rainforest. It’s the flattest trail that I know of, and it’s the only trail that meanders near a creek (in Winter). The sound of the water bubbling over the rocks and fallen trees provides the soundtrack to our Elder Cedar walks.

In the evening, because it was free, I watched one Battle After Another. It was the first time that I’ve seen Leonardo di Caprio in a film since Titanic. I’m not taken with him; I don’t see anything very dynamic in his acting. However, the film has received a lot of attention in (absurd) award shows, so I watched it.

It was fun, although there are a lot, an awful lot, of guns. And anger and macho posturing. It’s a comedy that’s scary; it’s frightening and it’s timely, given what’s going on with ICE in Minnesota. It’s a great story, well told. And scary.

I’ll be baking the pistachio crust mixture for the fish today when we come home from walking with our friends. And then I Zoom with my asthma doctor, after which I shall make the corn/jalapeno/basil sauce on which the fish is served. I can hardly wait to make it. It is one of the most delicious things that I have ever made.