Our carriage awaits!
What a glorious morning! The sun is up, the birds are flying backward to see where they have been, and we are on the right side of the grass!! We finally managed to peel ourselves out of bed at the ungodly hour of 7:30 am – fashionably late for us!
We made coffee and then meandered through the garden, making mental notes of what we should do next time we get a chance. We picked a mess of eggplants, which we will process on Sunday afternoon after the Elks Christmas Boutique.
We do not know how the eggplants go there as we never heard the chickens!
Eggplants also contain vitamin B6, potassium, and folate. Eggplants are related to potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers. We call eggplants a vegetable, but they are considered a fruit. The state of New Jersey produces the most eggplants in the U.S.
The Eggplants are ready!
We finished our coffee and worked in the office before our massage! The masseuse came about 11:00 am, and by 1:00 pm, we were both like wet noodles, relaxed and feeling good.
So, when you are feeling good, what do you want to do? Mary eyed the kitchen and went to work with me, not far behind. We made zoodles using our sprial doo-hickey machine!
Three turns of the crank, and we have zoodles!!
The term “zoodles” is a combination of the words “zucchini” and “noodles”. Other names for zoodles include zusketti and zuttuccine. Zoodles are a nutritious, low-carb, and gluten-free alternative to pasta. They are high in fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and magnesium and are low in calories.
Zoodles galore.
When finished, we add this to the zoodles and have a “pasta” dinner without the carbs! Mary’s Sous Chef does the slicin’ and dicin’; I understand he is a handsome devil!
The stuffing is coming along.
NOTE: We love working in the kitchen together and we make a well oiled team and by now we can also anticipate what is needed next. Mary likes it when I clean up as we go so when we sit down to dinner, the kitchen is 90% returned to normal (I charge a little extra for this service!!).
We are saving the zoodles until Sunday, but Mary stuffed some squash with the filling, which was terrific tonight. The squash was picked two days ago. We love having our garden.
Dinner time!
It was so good that I even ate the squash’s peel. We cut the squash in half and put it face down in a baking dish with 1/4 inch of water. Then, we microwaved it for seven minutes. It was soft, cooked, and ready to be stuffed.
How do squashes greet each other? Gourd to see you!
Beyond yummy!
After dinner, we meandered over to Jeff’s house and harassed him for a while. I changed the house lighting to “lightning,” which was pretty dramatic. I am waiting for the neighbors to complain. No other homes directly face our house, where we are situated on the block, so we are probably safe!
Mary grabbed her needlepoint, and we headed to the TV room to watch Dr. No. Summary: In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 (Sean Connery) battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
Although Dr. No was the first Bond book to be made into a film, it was the sixth in Fleming’s series, which began with Casino Royale.
We crashed at 11:00 pm after watching “You Only Live Twice” with James Bond. Summary: During the Cold War, American and Russian spacecrafts go missing, leaving each superpower believing the other is to blame. As the world teeters on the brink of nuclear war, British intelligence learns that one of the crafts has landed in the Sea of Japan. After faking his own death, secret agent James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to investigate. In Japan, he’s aided by Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba) and the beautiful Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi), who help him uncover a sinister global conspiracy.
