Today was a PPI day.
I ate a late lunch of the pink vegetable soup with a dollop of crema with a
salami sandwich before going to the bank to deposit and wire the money to pay
for Willy’s graduate school tuition to study Sustainable Development at Dublin Institute
of Technology in September.
Dinner was also PPI’s. Suzette sautéed the last of
the Calabacitas with two cloves of fresh picked garlic with a handful of chopped turnip greens that I saved when
processing the turnips on Saturday, while I microwaved the last two grilled lamb
chops. I ran to the basement and fetched a bottle of La Granja Rioja (50% Grenache
and 50% Tempranillo, Trader Joe’s, $5.99).
So the meal took about ten minutes to make.
After eating this simple meal, we still had a half bottle of wine and I decided I wanted to have a bit of
cheese, so I toasted a couple of pieces of whole grain bread (Costco, $4.99 for
two loaves) and fetched the Delice cheese (Costco $10.99/lb.). The Delice cheese had been open for about a
week and had become wonderfully creamy.
It is my favorite triple cream brie style cheese. I first discovered it several years ago when
I bought Explorateur cheese, which is similar.
I now think Delice is the best cheese available in Albuquerque for the
money.
L'Explorateur is a soft-ripened French triple cream cow's-milk cheese made in the Île-de-France region of France.[1]Created in the 1950s, it was named to honor the first US Satellite, Explorer. As a triple creme, the fat content of its dry matter is about 75%. It has a squat cylindrical shape, and has a smooth, unpressed texture. Its name is a registered trademark of its manufacturer. (Wikipedia)
The Ile-de-France is the region that surrounds Paris and includes the town of Brie, with its large dairy industry that produces brie cheese. Everything is wonderfully simple in France.
We then ate some chocolate covered fruits and nuts to finish off the bottle of wine.
Bon Appétit
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