December 1, 2018 Lunch – Turkey Salad Salad. Dinner – Grilled Ribeye Steak with Ratatouille and Couscous

December 1, 2018 Lunch – Turkey Salad Salad.  Dinner – Grilled Ribeye Steak with Ratatouille and Couscous

I ate yogurt, milk, grapes, banana, and granola and then a toasted slice of whole wheat bread with a slice of lettuce spread with turkey salad.

Then we drove to the San Yisidro Church in Corrales where there was a crafts sale. Suzette bought a lovely pillow with a cute printed pig on it. I had never been to the church and museum across the street before and found them interesting in an old 1850’s mud building sort of way.  The museum was once a working hacienda.

We then went to Sprouts at Alameda and bought pistachio nuts, an Aji tuna steak, a 5 lb. duck, a bunch of peonies, and blueberries.  From Sprouts we drove to Dollar Tree in the same shopping center where Suzette bought items for her attendants to wear for the ten days before Christmas, like reindeer antler hair clips.

Then we drove home and fixed lunch and watched Texas lose to Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship game.  It is uncanny how Oklahoma has the best or one of the best quarterbacks in the country every year.  Suzette ate turkey soup and I made and ate a salad of red leaf lettuce, tomato, green onion,  olives, and chopped dill pickle.  We drank the rest of the Kris Italian Pinot Grigio from Venezia with lunch ($5.99 at Trader Joe’s, a great buy).

Around 4:00 we took a walk.

We thawed four ribeye steaks yesterday for dinner tonight and at 6:30 took the Humboldt Fog cheese from fridge to come to room temperature and soften.  Then Suzette grilled two of the steaks and heated the casserole containing the Ratatouille and Couscous.

It was a quick and easy dinner to prepare.

I opened another bottle of 2013 Puerta Plata Reserva from the Catalunya region of Spain, which is the cheapest Reserva I have found in Albuquerque at $7.99 at Trader Joe’s.  It is 60% Tempranillo and 40% Grenache.  Since Grenache seems to me to produce a more intense red wine, this wine has more complexity and is a darker heavier wine, perfect for a grilled steak and a heavily herb flavored French Provencal vegetable stew.  It also turned out to complement somewhat the acidic thick gooey Humboldt Fog cheese.

Today  turned into a food fest with pieces of chocolate cake after lunch and dinner and raids on the candy bowl with a sniffer of Calvados and tea after dinner.  The excuse for the raid on the candy bowl was that Suzette wanted to use the candy dish to hold the pistachio nuts we bought today at Sprouts, so we had to clean it out anyway.

Suzette washed the new sheets today so after dinner we made the bed and crawled into bed to watch some of Saturday Night Live at 9:30 until we went to sleep.

I awoke at 2:15 to blog and drink water to wash down my steak dinner.

Bon Appetit