1. I had one red pepper stuffed with cinnamon, cumin, and cloves seasoned ground lamb along with onion, garlic, roasted slivered almonds and basmati rice left over from Sunday's dinner and I made a terrific soup with it. It was simple. I sauteed chopped onion and celery and added some sliced mushrooms. I took the stuffing out of the stuffed pepper, put the stuffing on top of the onion, celery, and mushrooms and then chopped up the pepper and added it to the sauté pan.
In a pot, I fixed chicken Better than Boullion and when it was all combined and nearly boiling and when the ingredients in the sauté pan were ready, I combined everything in the pot and let it slow cook for a while.
I was especially happy with the wealth of flavor the cinnamon, cumin, and cloves gave this soup and loved how the vegetables and meat worked together.
2. Before dinner, I enjoyed a relaxing session with Ed at the Lounge. He'll be a volunteer official at the Elks' Idaho State Hoop Shoot in Wallace tomorrow and has a fun Super Bowl party planned with Darren, Erica, and other family in Post Falls.
I found out today that our family dinner will be at least loosely connected to the Super Bowl and so we are all bringing snacky foods to munch on and we'll at least keep an eye on the football game.
3. Debbie and I talked some more today. It was a great visit just chatting about comings and goings in Valley Cottage and I enjoyed reporting how much I enjoyed the Northwest Passages event I attended last night in place of the phantom symphony.
Debbie sleeps in a room in Adrienne's basement and two animals, the cat Hazel and the dog Huckleberry like to join Debbie. Tonight Hazel, the cat was with Debbie until Huck entered the room.
Debbie took a picture of each of them and texted them to me.
They are lovely animals.
I loved seeing those pictures.
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