Leftovers!

 (#turkeysfeelinglucky)

We woke up talking about leftovers…. seriously.  I was awake at 5a when I heard the fireplace go on… Bob thought he wanted to sleep more so I put on my sweatshirt and slippers and brought my electronics into the living room.   Read for about 1/2 hour (Tana French’s fourth book, The Secret Place.  Fantastic.) then started the coffee.  Bob got up and turned on the news.  We sat in the living room reading, etc til we semi-dressed (no shower, contacts, makeup — oh poor people encountered in Gualala) and headed to Trinks at 7:30.  Got two Americanos in our magical travel mugs from Cabin Coffee in Breckenridge that keep coffee HOT for hours.  Bob got a blueberry lemon scone to bring home.  Stopped by the market to get bread and salad stuff for later but — of course — we were too early and they had not re-stocked yet so just bought a chocolate bar (72% dark chocolate, fair trade with espresso beans because I really wanted a little piece last night with my glass of red wine after the dishes… and we forgot to bring from home.  TMI but whatever.  I am not ashamed.  Really.)

Got back to the house and made breakfast.  We always eat ‘2gether’ but differently.  Bob made two scrambled eggs with chopped up bacon, scallions, half and half and he warmed up the biscuits from yesterday and the scone.  He left it warming in the oven while I made an egg over easy that I had with salsa and a bite of scone (really good, full of blueberry and very lemony) and biscuit (still deliciously herby perfect for sopping up the yolk and salsa).  Bob had the scone and some biscuit.  We still have one biscuit left that, attempting to defy scientific principles, we re-wrapped to try tomorrow…

Our intention was to take a walk on the bluffs but it started raining way earlier than anticipated (10:00a) so we played Dominoes — fairly even until last game. I am still ahead but way down from the high.

Needing bread and lettuce, we drove the 7 miles into Gualala again and got some fresh fresh fresh sourdough from Ft. Bragg bakery but lettuce was meh so passed.  Pouring rain.  Yay. No walk.  Boo.

On our way back we saw these guys:

Bob wants this kind of lawnmower.

Got back to the house and made lunch.  We both changed our minds several times about how/what we wanted and, per usual, each made our own thing.   Bob: started with the leftover mashed potatoes in a ceramic serving dish and layered on some stuffing, sliced turkey, gravy and put it in a 450* oven for 20 minutes.  I had a slice of toasted sourdough with a schmear of cranberry relish and sliced turkey warmed with a little gravy to moisten everything and added some bits of sausage and celery from the stuffing.  We ate with a glass of Chateau St. Jean chardonnay and it was perfection.  Just as we each had hoped.  #leftoversrock.

We spent the rest of the afternoon reading and playing dominoes while watching Stanford beat UCLA. Thinking a lot about Dad who was diagnosed a year ago this week and was able to watch Stanford in the Rose Bowl; he didn’t even care that they lost miserably because his beloved tailgate pals came to him.  I miss him every day.

We intended to watch Game of Thrones tonight (finally!!) but the discs didn’t work.. so we caught up on Downton Abbey.  Love. Love. Love.

And dinner.  Leftovers again with some fresh additions.  Once again, doing our own thing. Bob made new mashed potatoes and warmed up turkey, stuffing, gravy.  I reconstituted the rest of the dried mushrooms and oven roasted the remaining fresh shitake and cremini mushrooms with coconut oil, salt and pepper.  Also roasted carrots and the remaining Brussels sprouts with coconut oil, sea salt and pepper.  Drained and chopped the reconstituted mushrooms and added them to some sliced turkey with a bit of the reconstituting broth.  Minced tarragon on the carrots and made a little salad of sliced cucumbers, radishes, tomatoes and parsley… yay.  It was so good I forgot to take photos….

Great day! No walk but it rained most of the day — even now at almost 10pm — so it’s all good!