This was a non-food day. I ate granola with tropical fruit salad and milk. Then I rode to Campbell Rd., then showered and dressed. We worked on a construction contract for the candy store and then at 1:00 left for Palmer Brewery and Left hand Distillery to try its newly released blue corn straight bourbon. Suzette ordered an Old Fashion and I ordered a whisky sour and an order of super nachos with chili con queso, retried beans, green onions, and spam.
My whisky sour
We tasted a Brothers Old Santa Fe Trail gin that we liked and discovered it was on sale at Total Wine. So after we enjoyed our drinks and snack we went into shopping mode.
We started at Albertson’s where we bought 8 oysters and a rainbow trout. Then we went to Total Wine where we bought roses, a bottle of the gin, some Marsala and sweet wines for the Bistro. Then we drove to Trader Joe’s where we replenished basics like Tom’s deodorant and toothpaste plus bottles of Pinot Grigio and Spanish La Granja Verdejo and Viura blend and two bottles each of dry and sweet Marsala for the Bistro yogurt, a baguette, and a milk chocolate with hazelnut bar.
Finally we went to Sprouts and bought grass fed 85% fat free ground beef on sale for $2.99/lb., 16-20 count headless shrimp for $4.99/lb. and Suzette bought yams.
Finally we drove downtown to April’s Gallery in the Hyatt to see the photography show with Dan Peebles’ and Miguel Gandert’s photos. We talked to Dan and Cynthia who just returned from France. Dan is a huge fan of Gigondas reds and they spent a week there and three days in Lyon where they ate at several great restaurants.
Finally we made it home. All we could do was unload the perishables.
Suzette wanted oysters for dinner nut when I opened three they were all bad and we threw all 8 out. Since Suzette has made a lovely cocktail sauce with lemon juice, catsup, and fresh Long’s horseradish, we decided to boil shrimp, make a caprese salad, and have shrimp with the last of the Vichyssoises. When we poured out the Vichyssoise it tasted slightly ripe but we ate it anyway. Suzette sliced one of the nice heirloom tomatoes I bought at Sprouts and alternated slices of tomato,
fresh mozzarella, and cucumber and made a balsamic dressing. I opened a bottle of Gruet rose and we had a simple dinner.
We the watched a rerun of a Rachel Maddie’s Friday evening show, Father Brown Mystery and finally Death in Paradise on PBS and went to bed at 10:00.
I woke up at 12:30 and blogged and drank a bit of Calvados and some of the milk chocolate with hazelnuts.
We try to get used to days like this when we must finish our PPIs.
Bon Appetit
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