April 11,
2015 Lunch Bun Cha Gio at Vietnam
2000 Dinner Stir Fried Bulgur with lamb
and broccoli
I ate my
usual Bun Cha Gio at Vietnam 2000 for lunch today. I also went to Sprouts to shop after lunch as
usual. Today I bought a 2 lb. piece of
fresh Atlantic raised salmon ($5.99/lb.), and bought a 2 lb. piece of lamb
shoulder that I intend to cook in a stew with root vegetables, including
carrots, beets and turnips from our garden and a parsnip I bought at Sprouts
today. I also bought broccoli crowns
($.99/lb.), cluster tomatoes ($.98/lb.), a cucumber for $.48, an eggplant for
$1.25, and the deal of the day, 4 ears of fresh corn for $1.00. I also bought medium firm tofu and two liter
bottles of Spanish Extra Virgin Olive Oil ($7.99/liter).
When I
returned home I made teriyaki sauce and marinated the salmon filet.
Teriyaki
Sauce
7 Tbsp. of
saki
7 Tbsp. of
aji mirin
7 Tbsp. of
premium dark soy
I Tbsp. of
sugar
Heat the
ingredients until the sugar goes into solution. The sauce is ready to use as soon as it
cools a bit.
After putting the salmon in a freezer bag with the marinade into the fridge, I rode
to Rio Bravo and when I returned Suzette was home. She was hungry, so we decided to make a
single dish dinner by combining the PPI lamb with the PPI Bulgur and adding a
head of Broccoli flowerets. We cooked
the broccoli in a covered pyrex bread baking dish with a bit of water for a
couple of minutes. Then I sliced the larger flowerets in half and we added them
to the bulgur and lamb and heated the whole affair for a couple of minutes and
wer ready to eat.
We drank beer
with dinner.
We then
watched a wonderful movie I happened to see on cable the other night, “The
Chosen One” written and starring Rob Schneider and Steve Buscemi. It has that Groundhog Day zen-like feel to it. Anyone/everyone can be the chosen one, no
matter how much trouble they experience in their life.
Bon Appétit
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