Reduction Sauce

I LOVE when Geoff cooks dinner for us. He picked a recipe with a pan seared pork loin and a maple rum reduction sauce with pecans. 

He bought 2 packs of pork loin, and inside each pack, there were 2 pork loins. For a total of 4. Instead of putting 2 back in the fridge for another meal, he cooked all 4 of them. 

Like pork loin for DAYS, man. I kind of couldn't believe he did that but. It's cooked and we can do things with it for dinner tomorrow I guess.

He reduced the reduction sauce to a caramel, candy consistency - thick, and threaddy like if you were making a fancy maple rum dessert. Doug scraped it all onto parchment and we're thinking it is going to solidify fully overnight. Not quite peanut brittle consistency but I told doug he should have added the rest of the pecans to the mess, because then .... it'd be more awesome.

It was delicious but.  I mean. that was a lot.

Also, here's a note: do not serve a cheese based broccoli side dish with a sweet maple rum reduction sauce. not a good mix. 

Still. He did a great job, everything tasted great. He knows what to do for next time. 

I'm never sad that he makes dinner. Even if it is gross. There is no better way for anyone to learn how to do something than to make mistakes, and he has not killed us yet. There's that. 

Today there were so many meetings. I found out one of the clients sent my big boss an email about how excited he is to move onto our platform, after 2 solid days of training by me and my buddy B this week. It felt good because he's been a little difficult (the client) to sway in some ways so we had a great days of training and an open office hours "Ask Me Anything" session today. All good and fun. Great 1:1 with my boss, we did my annual review last week and a few things were still sitting with me. I brought them up, he heard me, I don't think things will change but I know I'm heard. Sometimes that is relief in and of itself.

Had a good long chat with Jess about housing, they're looking for a change. We've been trying to figure out a trip north and I think it won't be by Christmas but maybe ... after Geoff's birthday and before Doug's? Not sure yet. 

But we'll get it figured out. 

Put more holiday lights up. Feeling cozy and sweet around here right now. I'll get some pictures tomorrow of the more things. Noticed my tree picture had the little angels at the bottom cropped out of it, my bad. They deserve some love.

 This dog decided that I'm the coziest thing in the house. It's freezing cold, and she's not having any part of outside. She'll hopefully go out in the morning. Again, I wonder about the time she was a stray. Where she was in the winter, as she was rescued in October but had lived through a winter before that. What was her life like?  I know what it is like now. And she is a blessed beast. digits below.

digits

exercise: 11/12 hours. no walk. Missed 2pm because of a really excellent meeting and I couldn't bring myself to stop participating. 4600+ steps by bedtime. An off day, I'd say.

blood glucose:

8:15am: 188
4:30pm: 186
10:30pm: 150 (another finger gave me 138 and I didn't believe that. Too huge a difference. Going with 150)

food:
coffee/water
11am: Bacon Turkey low carb fajita wrap w/mayo; Metformin
1pm: some more bacon I left for Doug that he didn't eat
6pm: porkloin w/ a very over carmelized reduction sauce w/rum and maple syrup and pecans. Broccoli and cheese 
7pm: metformin+jardiance
8pm:ramekin of pretzels and more pretzels, even more pretzels
white wine