Saturday, February 11, 2012

winter rains



The winter rains have arrived. It started last night about 8 PM and rained both lightly and heavily until early this morning. It was even cold in the night; 2 blankets. Good for the garden, of course, and good for maintaining the standing water breeding grounds for the local mosquitoes. It let up through the morning, with only a brief shower or two. Mr. C became transfixed by the opera beginning at 11 o'clock; I kept to my bed and read. Before that, however, he busied himself in the kitchen making corn meal pancakes topped with yogurt and strawberries; this house does not subsist. Big shrimp salad for lunch, opera or no, from last night's llevar dinner from Dago's. Then a great game of dominoes. By that time, 2 PM, the rain had stopped and the breeze suddenly turned warm and sultry. I made a killing at the game table, celebrated with a glass of wine, then home for more reading. Forecast is for rain tonight and tomorrow. Not sure if we will go to Fernando's tomorrow for comida. We'll wait to see what the weather brings. It's supposed to be turbulent and wet until next Friday when the sun will return.

3 comments:

DAK said...

By the way, I can't stand Wagner. As far as the rabe goes, can you get regular broccoli? And you must be able to get chorizo in place of the Italian sausage, no? I'll bet the harder part is coming up with rigatoni -- lots of fideos but I don't ever remember seeing large pasta shapes in Mexico. But hey! It all works!

mary ann said...

It's raining here too ~ 'bout time...

The Fevered Brain said...

DAK,
Yes, we can get regular broccoli; I was thinking about using that but the stalks we get in the market have no greens attached. I guess I could cut off the stalks and cut them into pencil-thin strips. As for the chorizo, most of it is the firm kind, sort of like bologna. But I did find some delicious chicken chorizo that's ground up. I'll get more. Yes, the rigatoni part is going to be the hard part, although I have penne and, although not the exact kind to use, it will do. I'll let you know!