May 17, 2025 Brunch - Seafood Omelet taco. Dinner - Mushroom, Lamb, and Burrata Pasta

May 17, 2025 Brunch - Seafood Omelet taco. Dinner - Mushroom, Lamb, and Burrata Pasta

This was a fabulous day with good exercise (5143 steps), two excellent meals, and lots of great food shopping.

It started at 8:00 with two toasted slices of whole wheat bagel smeared with cream cheese and garnished with slices of red onion and the newly cured Gravad lax with a cup of tea.

I then showered and dressed and we drove to within 1 1/2 blocks of the Farmers’ market carrying a box to fill with plants to the market.

As we circumnavigated the market we bought two cherry tomato and two basil plants and then four Thai basil plants and finally a bay laurel tree and a dill plant.

We also bought a Forest Mixture of mushrooms with Lion’s Mane, shiitake, and Chestnut mushrooms and a Baguette at Le Quiche Bakery.

When we returned home I had a video call with Pres and got a prescription for a cycle of a new more powerful antibiotic sent to Costco. 

Suzette then made an amazing seafood taco with the leftover salmon, scallops, and tuna sashimi by folding an omelet around the seafood and laying the omelet on a corn tortilla.  We split a Negra Modelo.

Then Suzette planted all of the plants we bought and put the gardenia into the tall holder in the garden and pulled a lot of mint out of the sage section.

At 12:00 we rested and I read some of the Saul Bellow novella for book club and studied the European Revolution of 1848. I have an unproven theory that my father’s family emigrated to the U.S, because they were on the side of those seeking democratic reform in East Prussia, so I wanted to know the basic facts. After I learned the facts I suspect it is unlikely that the revolution was the immediate precipitating event because they did not emigrate until the 1870’s

After we napped, at 4:30 we drove to Costco to shop for some basics. We bought a beautiful gardenia bush, sugar, eggs, dates, burrata, Dubliner cheddar, coffee, peanut butter, a Heinz assortment of catsup, mustard, and relish, French Chocolate Croissants, sardines, and my two prescriptions.

When we returned we decided to make dinner with the mushrooms, some leftover lamb, and egg noodles, I minced 1/2 of a shallot, five cloves of garlic, sliced half of the Forest Mixture  and three portobello mushrooms and sliced a lamb chop. Suzette de-stemmed a handful of snow peas and boiled some German egg noodles and sautéed the ingredients and added the noodles, some Marsala, nutmeg, and cream to make a lovely pasta in mushroom sauce. We garnished the pasta with some burrata and minced parsley.

I opened the bottle of 2023 Faustino Rivero Ulecia Albariño that I bought at Costco for around $15.00. It is an elegant Albariño rated 93, 4.0 by Vinvino, and 4.5 by Another rating site.  I clearly had been fermented on the leas because it did not express the acidity of many joven albarinos.

After dinner we watched the Stars v. Winnipeg and Eva Longoria in Madrid. At 8:00 we toured the garden. It looks great this year but it is still early. 

At 9:00 I turned the TV to Death in Paradise and switched it to hockey and saw Dallas eliminate Winnipeg in the first minute of extra time.

Then at 10:00 we switched to Saturday Night Live and watched until the end of Weekend Update at 10:40 and I ate two chocolate chocolate cookies and a cup of tea.

Suzette went to bed and I blogged.

This day was special because I felt better and was able to walk, and discovered that there exist antibiotics that can cure my sinus infection and am starting a new cycle of stronger antibiotics.

We also cooked two truly wonderful meals.