Extra Hour To Relax!

We really appreciated the extra hour today. I used the time to relax and try to get rid of this back pain. No exercise again today.

For dinner, Dolores made Pasta Fagioli and brought some upstairs for us to try. She really does a great job. I made a simple Spanish dish of boneless pork chops and hot sausage browned with onion, tomatoes, garlic, white wine, bay leaf and parsley. I served it with a garden salad. I took my blood sugar 2 hours after I ate and it was 81!

Food For Thought:

Just thinking about the holidays coming up and getting a little concerned about over eating. I'm going to plan out my menus for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Also in November we celebrate Aaron's birthday and Dolores's birthday each with special meals. Aaron's birthday is the 17th but we are going to celebrate on Thursday with a wine dinner at one of our favorite restaurants - Emelio's Tappas Bar - in Hillside, IL (where we used to live). It's a Spanish restaurant serving Tappas and other regional dishes. This dinner will be very special and I'll write all about our experience on Friday.

I think the best tomatoes to eat are home grown. If you can't get home grown over the winter, then select vine ripened or heirloom tomatoes. Other tomatoes - if not organic - tend to be forced to turn red so they are not really ripe and, therefore, the flavor is compromised.

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