Weekend

We're retired, so you wouldn't think that weekends would be any different from any other day--but they are, somehow. We slept in until 8:00 a.m. and had a late brunch. During the week, we eat hot or cold cereal, but on the weekends, we like to try something special.

Today I made a fritatta. I had just heard a technique for cooking the eggs by keeping them over low heat and stirring from the bottom constantly to allow all the egg to cook at the same rate without browning or toughening. It actually worked. I didn't try to roll or fold the eggs--just added the sauteed veggies, topped with a little mozzarella, and melted the cheese under the broiler. I've made fritattas before, but this one was unusual because it included chopped, sauteed kale. Ken didn't even complain about the green stuff.

Annie called to thank us for her holiday card and I-Tunes gift card. It had just arrived, barely in time, since they were on the verge of leaving for the airport for their trip to Texas. Safe travels!

We rode our bikes over to Retama Village today, just to look around. A few more units have been constructed, and the model home has been sold. Otherwise it looked pretty much the same. It will take a real upturn in the economy to make the development grow.

Continuing the kale theme, I made a hoisin chicken stir fry for supper, with--you guessed it--kale, along with green beans, onions, and a little bell pepper. Ken said as long as he didn't get too much green in one bite, he hardly noticed it. The hoisin has a rather strong flavor, so it overshadowed the kale a bit, but we both liked the concoction.

Tonight we watched a Masterpiece Mystery episode, one of seven we had recorded. This was the last Inspector Lewis in the current series, probably a good thing. It was a rather weird plot, including some children who had possibly inherited FFI, fatal familial insomnia. Coincidentally, I had just been reading about this condition in a National Geographic Magazine in the doctor's office last Monday.