November 27, 2015 Lunch – Ham and Cheese Sandwiches with PPI Salad, Dinner – Sauteed Rib Steak and Mushrooms with PPI baked Acorn Squash and creamed Peas and Onions

November 27, 2015 Lunch – Ham and Cheese Sandwiches with PPI Salad, Dinner – Sauteed Rib Steak and Mushrooms with PPI baked Acorn Squash and creamed Peas and Onions

We slept in a bit and drank coffee and chai and watched the Black Friday edition on Squack on thr Street.  I then attended a meeting of the group I am working with to develop a property in Los Lunas and Suzette went shopping for a couple of items she needed, like Shop-Vac.

When my meeting finished around noon I returned home and Suzette had arrived and was making ham and cheese sandwiches on toasted Fano French baguette with the Beaufort cheese and PPI swirl cut ham.  She filled ½ of the plate with PPI salad from last night’s Thanksgiving Dinner and the sandwiches on the other side of each plate.  

Then Suzette went to the Spanish Market to look for a speaker about Spanish santos and I watched two Inside Einstein’s Mind  programs on Nova on PBS.  One was on the formula E = MC squared and the other was on his General Theory of Relativity, of which this is the 100th Anniversary.  The latter show included how Eddington proves the General Theoryin a total Ecclipse in 1919 and the former show included how a woman scientist named Mitzner and her brother named Friesch, discovered atomic fission using the former theor.  Friesch won the Nobel Prize and worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.

At 5:30 Suzette had arrived and said she spoke to Charlie Sanchez and Rudy Ortiz and Rudy agreed to speak on Santos and the Crypto-Jews in New Mexico at one of the Center’s dinner/lectures.

We watched the News Hour and then started cooking dinner.  At noon I had gone to the basement fridge and fetched a large  1½ inch thick rib steak and thawed it.  I sliced five large white mushrooms and Suzette Sauteed the mushrooms and the steak in a large skillet.  When the steak was cooked to medium rare Suzette removed it and I fetched the bottle of Vya White Vermouth Mike had given us an I poured abot 2 Tbsp.of vermouth on the mushrooms and Suzette stirred the wine into the mushrooms.  I took the creamed Green Peas and Onions from the fridge and she heated those in the microwave.  I opened the new bottle of Kirtland Rioja Reserva ($7.99 at Costco) and poured glasses of it.  I sliced the steak and Suzette filled our plates with slices of steak garnished with sauted mushrooms, acorn squash and creamed peas and onions. 

We did not think there was much special going on with the wine and we will not buy any more of it because, although the wine was very smooth,it had little character, even though the wine seems to be from Elciego, which means it is probably one of the same producer that made the Reserva Costco has been selling for several years, El Eguia.  I guess we liked the 2007 better. 

We watched the TCU/Baylor game until it ended with a TCU victory in the second overtime period.  I have never seen such terrible weather.  After a two hour game delay, the entire game was played in a cold driving rain, which raised the contest to Biblical proportions, which is appropriate since both schools have strong religious affiliations. 

Finally, at 11;00 we put up the PPIs and went to bed.

Bon Appetit