November 29, 2017 Lunch –Polish Dog at Costco. Dinner – Turkey Lentil soup
The best meal today was definitely breakfast, ½ of an everything bagel toasted, smeared with cream cheese, garnished with slices of thinly sliced red onion and Lax topped with Swedish Lax Sauce. Here is a recipe for Lax Sauce, although this Lax sauce was made commercially and purchased at IKEA.
I worked until noon and then took a check to the bank and then drove to Fano’s Bakery and bought two baguettes. Then I went to Sprouts where I purchased sesame seeds, asparagus on sale for $1.48/lb., a Japanese rice cracker mix, and green onions. I then drove to Costco, arriving at 1:00. After picking up a prescription, I ate a Polish Dog for lunch. Here is a picture of how I garnish a Polish Dog and eat it open face after removing the excess bread.
I then did some major shopping. I bought mixed nuts, Hershey nuggets, romaine lettuce, a salmon filet, a Dungeness crab, chocolate covered raisins, a 3 lb. bag of pistachios, a 1 kilo wheel of Brie cheese, multi grain crackers, and eight bottles of wine, including a Bogle red blend, a New Zealand Mohua Sauvignon Blanc, a Dry Creek Sauvignon Blanc, a Gruet Rose Brut, a French Rose’, a Marques de Caceres Reserva Rioja red, a couple other Rioja reds, and a Kirkland Premier Cru Chablis.
I then drove home, arriving at 2:30. It took me a while to unload and store everything.
After catching my breath and checking the result for the day in the market and my e mail at 3:30 I drove to El Super for the weekly produce specials. Avocados were 4 for $.99, yellow onions were 4 lb./$.99. I bought 1 bunch each of radishes, Green onions, and cilantro for $.25 each. ½ lb. of mushrooms was $1.50, Mexican squash and bananas were 3 lb. for $.99. I also bought another 32 oz. container of yogurt for $2.69.
I made it home by 4:15 I fetched the turkey soup and listened to most of Mad Money and made a peanut butter and honey sandwich on a slice of toasted whole wheat bread. Suzette arrived around 5:00. We decided to heat the turkey soup. Suzette wanted to add chard leaves to the soup, so she went outside to pick a basket full f leaves. I de-stemmed the chard leaves and cut them into bite sized pieces. We heated the soup and each ate a bowl full.
Then I made the teriyaki sauce with 1/3 cup each of Aja Mirin, soy sauce, and sake and 1 T. of sugar and left Suzette with the task of bagging the salmon filet as I left for meditation at 5:45.
When I returned at 7:00 I ate some nuts and then went to bed at around 7:45 and blogged until 9:30.
Bon Appetit
ovember 29, 2017 Lunch –Polish Dog at Costco. Dinner – Turkey Lentil soup
The best meal today was definitely breakfast, ½ of an everything bagel toasted, smeared with cream cheese, garnished with slices of thinly sliced red onion and Lax topped with Swedish Lax Sauce. Here is a recipe for Lax Sauce, although this Lax sauce was made commercially and purchased at IKEA.
I came up with a menu for book club tomorrow night. Besides the usual cheeses, bread crackers, nuts and candy, I decided upon a Japanese menu, since the major theme of Dharma Bums is Jack Kerouac’s awakening to Zen Buddhism and Gary Snyder’s immersion in Zen. The climax of the book is Gary’s leaving for Japan to enter a Zen monastery. I decided upon three dishes and a dessert course. I will 1. marinate and grill a salmon filet (when I told Suzette I was going to marinate salmon in teriyaki sauce, she insisted on grilling it on a cedar board on the propane grill), 2. steam asparagus and dress with a sesame seed sauce, and 3. Thaw and sauté some prepared pot stickers with a dipping sauce. Dessert will be poached Quince and raisins and/or chocolate fudge pecan pie with whipped cream.
I worked until noon and then took a check to the bank and then drove to Fano’s Bakery and bought two baguettes. Then I went to Sprouts where I purchased sesame seeds, asparagus on sale for $1.48/lb., a Japanese rice cracker mix, and green onions. I then drove to Costco, arriving at 1:00. After picking up a prescription, I ate a Polish Dog for lunch. Here is a picture of how I garnish a Polish Dog and eat it open face. I then did some major shopping. I bought mixed nuts, Hershey nuggets, romaine lettuce, a salmon filet, a Dungeness crab, chocolate covered raisins, a 3 lb. bag of pistachios, a 1 kilo wheel of Brie cheese, multi grain crackers, and eight bottles of wine, including a Bogle red blend, a New Zealand Mohua Sauvignon Blanc, a Dry Creek Sauvignon Blanc, a Gruet Rose Brut, a French Rose’, a Marques de Caceres Reserva Rioja red, a couple other Rioja reds, and a Kirkland Premier Cru Chablis.
I then drove home, arriving at 2:30. It took me a while to unload and store everything.
After catching my breath and checking the result for the day in the market and my e mail at 3:30 I drove to El Super for the weekly produce specials. Avocados were 4 for $.99, yellow onions were 4 lb./$.99. I bought 1 bunch each of radishes, Green onions, and cilantro for $.25 each. ½ lb. of mushrooms was $1.50, Mexican squash and bananas were 3 lb. for $.99. I also bought another 32 oz. container of yogurt for $2.69.
I made it home by 4:15 I fetched the turkey soup and listened to most of Mad Money and made a peanut butter and honey sandwich on a slice of toasted whole wheat bread. Suzette arrived around 5:00. We decided to heat the turkey soup. Suzette wanted to add chard leaves to the soup, so she went outside to pick a basket full f leaves. I de-stemmed the chard leaves and cut them into bite sized pieces. We heated the soup and each ate a bowl full.
Then I made the teriyaki sauce with 1/3 cup each of Aja Mirin, soy sauce, and sake and 1 T. of sugar and left Suzette with the task of bagging the salmon filet as I left for meditation at 5:45.
When I returned at 7:00 I ate some nuts and then went to bed at around 7:45 and blogged until 9:30.
Bon Appetit
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