January 3, 2020 Brunch – Egg, Cream, and Duck Foie Gras Mini Soufflés. Dinner - PPI Chicken Curry with Rice

 January 3, 2020 Brunch – Egg, Cream, and Duck Foie Gras Mini Soufflés. Dinner -  PPI Chicken Curry with Rice

When we were last in Paris we went to a highly recommended bistro in Montmartre where we collected a wonderful appetizer that is easy to prepare.  It is a ramekin filled with an egg whisked with| a T. of heavy cream with a thin slice of foie gras on top baked until the egg is firm.

The result is a small soufflé   Suzette made two medium with two eggs and two T. of cream and two small mini soufflés using 1 egg and 1 T. of cream.  All were delicious, perhaps the cream today was not as rich as the fresh heavy cream available in Paris, but the soufflés were the best this side of the Atlantic.

I watched and cheered as Leicester beat Newcastle this morning.

Then we watched GPS and were thrilled to be made aware of a company named Eat Just that is creating chicken tenders and eggs outside of the animal.  A book titledBillion Dollar Burger by Purdy was also mentioned about produced meat which is genetically made and is real meat, not imitation meat.

Then we ate the soufflés with toast spread with butter and orange marmalade with the last couple of glasses of Chateau d’ Yquem Grand Cru Sauternes .

I napped after lunch until 2:00 when we zoomed with the family fr an hour.  At 3:45 we drove to the 

Bosque and walked around the lake.  I made it without a sugar pill and was a little soar but my muscles did not tighten up.  

When we returned home we decided to eat the PPI Chicken Curry for dinner, so I made 1 ½ cups of basmati rice and Suzette heated the curry while I made cups of chai for us.  We opened the new bottle of mango chutney Suzette bought at Southwest Distributing this week. 

 

 watched a bit of TV and I ate a Swedish dessert with another cup of chai and we went to bed at 9:00.

The most exciting thing we did today was to hang the two new paintings I purchased recently.

One is a portrait of a Mexican in a Pink sweater by BFO Nordfeldt painted in 1937.  The  other is a 1970 California hard edge/Transcendental panting by Ed Garmin, who was a member of the TPG who moved to  California and was Raymond Jonson’s biographer.

Here are photos of them.

Bon Appetit