January 16, 2016 Dinner at Linda and T.R’s
We had a busy day today. We left home around 9:00 and made several stops, including shopping for shoes at Dillard’s, where Suzette purchased a pair of UGGs to replace the ones she recently wore out and a quick run through Total Wine to purchase eight bottles of wine at the 20% off sale. Here are the bottles we bought.
We returned home around 12:30. While Suzette showered and dressed I made a salad with red leaf and romaine lettuce, Kalamata olives, diced tomato, diced cucumber and sliced and cubed San Joaquin cheese from Italy with a vinaigrette dressing utilizing our new bottle of Sprouts’ Spanish olive oil ($7.99/liter). After we ate salad for lunch, we drove to Santa Fe.
We started by going to Nedra Matteucci’s Gallery where we saw several nice paintings. Then we went to Aaron Payne’s to see the Raymond Jonson pictures he had recently acquired at 4:00. There was one pen and ink piece that we both liked very much because it demonstrated Jonson’s technical gifts, so we negotiated a price and told Aaron to wrap up the piece at 4:30, while we drove to Santa Fe Clay to view its cup show. Suzette had recently broken the last cup we bought at a Santa Fe Clay cup show several years ago, some we wanted to replace it, if possible. Luckily, we soon found a nice cup that was made with high fire clay for $43.00 that we both liked and bought it.
Then at 5:00 we drove back to Aaron Payne’s Gallery and picked up our new Raymond Jonson piece.
We drove to David Richard’s new Gallery on Pacheco to see the gallery and its inaugural show,featuring an English artist named Huxley. I did not ask if he was related to the famous family of writers.
At 6:15 we drove to Linda and T.R. Phillips’ house on Old Pecos Trail for dinner and to spend the night. We took two bottles of wine, an 2013 Archer’s Summit rose and a 2014 Gruet rose.
When we walked in we were offered a drink and I immediately saw a bottle of Raicilla. Raicilla is crafted in the mountains above Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco and is not controlled by a Denomination of Origin.
The Angustifolia, Rhodacantha, Maximiliana, and Inaquiden agave are used in the production of Raicilla, not the root of the agave as many have thought. The "mezcal producers in the state of Jalisco called their product raicilla (which means root), to get around the "legalities" of mezcal and tequila.
Linda and T.R. developed a cluster of homes near Sayulita named Baliville, where we stayed several years ago, so they are familiar with all the local food stuffs and spirits. I took a glass of it and found it quite tasty on rocks.
Suzette had a scotch on rocks. Soon the three other dinner guests arrived, Steve and Mitzi, who deal in European mid-century modern furniture, and Les, who was a neighbor and going to go with T.R to Sayulita this week, and is in finance.
We sat and talked for a while, mainly about Mexico. Les has visited San Miguel de Allende for the last 15 years, so we asked him about it and talked about Lake Chapala and the colonial highland area of Mexico.
After about an hour we were ushered into the dining room. I poured glasses of 2013 Archer’s Summit rose and then Gruet rose for dinner.
Linda had baked a spiral cut ham, which seems to be the only kind one can find these days, that was delicious and a very interesting baked bread custard infused with slices of sweet potato, and pan sautéed blanched green beans garnished with grated Parmesan cheese.
After dinner we returned to the living room and ate slices of store bought tiramisu that was perfectly made with coffee soaked lady fingers and sweet marsacapone.
We talked until after 11:00 and then went to bed in the guest bedroom that T.R. and Linda had added onto the house.
Bon Appetit
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