November 30, 2011 - Shopping for Food

November 30, 2011 - Shopping for Food

We traveled from Dallas to Albuquerque today.  We visited Bernice Meyerson, who was our mother’s oldest friend, is over 90 and who now lives in Dallas and ate lunch with her using the leftovers from last night’s dinner plus a four pastries and a baguette, we picked up at Eatzies on Oak Lawn on our way to her apartment. 

Eatzies is a food lovers’ temple.  Its orientation is toward prepared foods.  It has prepared dishes available for sale and all the final ingredients for organizing a dinner or lunch or picnic; including breads, pastries, cheeses, fruits and vegetables, salamis and hams, prepared foods of all kinds, such as soups, salads, entrees, and vegetable dishes.  It has an in store bakery, cheese, deli, and wine departments and a prep area where you can request and wait while cooks cook fresh dishes (like a fresh fish fillet and pasta) or prepare dinners (like pot roast and mashed potatoes and a vegetable) for you to go or you can pick up already cooked or prepared foods, like sandwiches and salads.  It is a food hall/green grocer/bakery/cafeteria/wine shop/cheese shop/deli/take out restaurant all in one.  We bought a French baguette, a small container of Spanish Marcona almonds to eat on the plane with beer and four individual pastries for $18.23.

Then we jetted back to Albuquerque.  When we picked up our car at the airport parking facility, we needed gas and food, so we went to Costco, where we purchased a package of two duck halves, one-half boneless leg of lamb, asparagus, snap peas, blueberries, blackberries, Saint Andre Cheese, eggs, heavy cream, organic salad mix, and a few other items.

We had eaten such a big lunch at Bernice’s, a reprise of last night’s dinner at Billy and Elaine’s that we chose to not fix dinner. Finally at 7:30 pm, we ran into the kitchen.  I made a salad with the fresh organic greens and some of our PPI smoked salmon in the fridge and thinly sliced onion and Irish Cheddar Cheese and a vinaigrette.  Suzette made a quesadilla with the cheddar cheese and some of our PPI smoked salmon on a flour tortilla. 

I then went through the ten days of mail waiting for me while Suzette checked the catalogs and food ads.  Suzette suggested that I go to Pros Market to finish our shopping due to the vegetable specials.  I suggested that it might be nice to make the dried cherry, onion and port wine sauce like the one Billy had served on the Pork Tenderloin on Tuesday evening for the duck and Suzette agreed.  Suzette also wanted some winter squash, like acorn or butternut squash.  The menu cycle is beginning again.    

Bon Apètit