July 20, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant and granola Lunch - Chicken Salad Salad. Dinner - Spanish Baked Fish with Sautéed Prosciutto wrapped Asparagus and clafoutis with whipped cream

July 20, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant and granola Lunch - Chicken Salad Salad. Dinner - Spanish Baked Fish with Sautéed Prosciutto wrapped Asparagus and clafoutis with whipped cream

I woke up at 5:00 to watch Stage 15 of the Tour.  It was a mountain stage, there was a crash near the beginning of the stage that separated the front 1/3 of the peleton from the rest. The back 2/3 contained the jerseys and never caught the front 1/3. At about 43 km.s from the finish the Belgium road race winner this year, Tim Wellens, charged into the lead and beat everyone by over a minute.  The peleton did not chase and finished 7 minutes behind Wllens together so there were no changes among the top five general category contestants time, most likely Because Wellens is on the same team, UAE, as Tadej Pogacar, the race leader.

I ate a chocolate croissant with a cup of chai at around 6:30 and then when Suzette awakened we each ate a bowl of granola with milk, yogurt, and blueberries around 9:00.

Then I watched the finish and then some News while I minced celery, onion, cucumber, and chicken for Suzette to make chicken salad.

Then I pitted and cut 5 cups of cherries in half and marinated them with Grand Marnier and cognac. Then I rested until 12:00 when I picked a pot full of lettuce in the garden and spun it.

At 1:00 Suzette made a salad with lettuce, cucumber, radishes, tomatoes and chicken salad. We drank glasses of rose with the salad under the gazebo. It was a bright sunny day and a water lilly was blooming in the pond.

After lunch I rested until 4:00 when I made clafoutis by scalding 1 1/2 cups of milk combined with 1 1/2 cup of heavy cream and then combining7 T. Of flour with 11 T. of powdered sugar, 1/2 tsp. of salt and mixuping in three eggs an$ the scalded milk and cream. It poured the batter into a buttered and sugared ceramic baking dish and the added the marinated cherries and baked the clafoutis in a 350 degree oven for 52 minutes.

I put a bottle of Torre de Ermelo Albariño in the freezer to chill.

While the clafoutis was cooking we sautéed a thinly sliced medium onion in olive oil and Suzette sliced and parboiled 7 Yukon Gold potatoes that we raised in our garden this year.

She then added sweet pimenton and saffron to the onions and then added the potatoes with some of the potato water to make a sauce to the onions and added about 1 1/2 lb. of fresh cod fillets from Costco and baked the dish in the oven for 45 minutes when I removed the clafoutis from the oven.

Diane and Jim arrived at 6:30 with a platter of grilled prosciutto wrapped asparagus and a bottle of Tamary Rose from Provence.  I poured out the last of our bottle of Kirkland Cotes de Provence and then opened the Torre de Ermelo Albariño and poured that. We ate at 7:00 when the fish was baked.

The food was delicious and we had a good conversation since they travel extensively and our kids are the same age and played together.

During the meal I opened the Faustino Rivero Ulecia Albariño that was a much better bottle of wine mainly because it was aged on the lies and was much smoother.

When we finished dinner Suzette showed them the garden while I whipped 1 cup of heavy cream into whipped cream with a tsp. of super fine granulated sugar and a few drops of vanilla.

Suzette then filled parfait glasses with Clafoutis topped with a dollop of whipped cream and I poured out the rest of the bottle of Faustino Rivero Ulcia Albariño.

It was a very pleasant Spanish/French/italian meal.

We said goodnight at 9:15 and went to bed.

I blogged this entry and went to bed.

Bon Appetit