Pasta Bolognese with Napa Cabbage Slaw and Orange Segments

 Quarantine supper tonite...   Live from NYC... 

🎶 Blue skies smiling at me 🎵nothing but blue skies do I see...  sunshine today was bright...  cheerful...  warming the office through windows...  outside temps in the mid 40’s...  almost no breeze.   Few folks out...  scarves...  hats...  gloves...  walking briskly to keep warm...  masks visible.  One of the side benefits of masks...  warmer nose and mouth during the cold months...  frigid winds not able to bite the face.  

Morning coffee today with a treat...  smoked peppered salmon and cream cheese on thin slices of last nights bread...  a delicious breakfast.   Unanimous votes for pasta bolognese and Napa cabbage slaw with red wine for supper...  so glad to have the hubs interested in helping with the daily menu.  

The hubs assembled a glass topped console table today as we shared afternoon tea...  replacing an eclectic grouping of tables and plant stands...  more decluttering...  paged though another pile of books 📚 to give away...   it’s a reader problem...  every room in the house has a pile of books...  most of them already read...  time to share them.  

Supper tonite...   as requested...  pasta bolognese...  Napa cabbage slaw...  a lovely 2017 Pinot Noir and orange segments for dessert.  We barely ate half the pasta...  another casserole in the works later this week...  maybe roast an eggplant to add to the dish? 

Still haven’t made dessert...   but...  decisions have been made.  The winner?  Cream puffs filled with pastry cream...  when?  Not sure...  maybe tomorrow...  the plan was to make them today but...   the console table arrived...  a couple of hours of rearranging...  plant watering and fussing...  and the afternoon was gone.  

The new strain of covid from the UK now deemed 50% more contagious...  30% more deadly...  geez...  seems like we are getting pummeled...  now more than ever vaccines 💉 matter.  NYC will be getting more doses next week...  currently there are none.  CDC recommends double masking or masks with at least 2 layers...  you know what to do...   mask up...  limit personal interactions...  take a brisk walk when it’s sunny...  and wash those germy hands 💕😷

How was your day?   What’s on your plate?   Thoughts?