We sat around and ate pistachios for until 7:00 p.m.
When I mentioned that we had lamb chops
we could grill and an eggplant. Suzette
said, “I will start the grill.”
After I sliced the eggplant into ½ inch slices and the
last lonely Mexican Squash and brushed them with an olive oil and lemon juice dressing
I had made. We discussed making couscous
with the kale we had bagged in the fridge.
I went to the fridge and remembered that I had bought 1/2 of mung bean
sprouts at Pro’s Ranch Market last week that needed to be cooked and saw a
container of PPI rice and decided to make fried rice instead.
I rinsed the mung beans and put olive oil in the wok
and heated it and threw in three small cloves of garlic from our garden. Then I threw in the rice and then the kale
and then a handful of turnip greens I had saved from the processing of the
turnips Suzette picked from the garden this morning. After a couple of minutes of turning the
rice over onto the vegetables to cook the vegetables, I turned around and saw
the rinsed bean sprouts and threw them in and then continued the process of
cooking and turning and added about 1 Tbsp. of Chinese rice cooking wine and a
½ tsp. of sugar and a pinch of Chinese sea salt. Then I thought about the lovely Vietnamese
omelets with bean sprouts and fetched two eggs and stirred them into the rice
and vegetable mixture and cooked the mixture for another five minutes turning 1/3
of the mixture at a time which was the amount that fit on my large wok paddle, until
the egg firmed and started to brown and the dish was ready.
When Suzette brought in the grilled lamb chops,
while the eggplant was still cooking, we discussed a wine for the meal. I suggested another Côtes du Rhône, like last
night’s wine, and she said she liked the wine last night. So I went to the cellar and found a bottle of
2010 Ortas Côtes du Rhône Les Viguiers (Red Rhone Wine). I am pretty sure I bought this bottle at
Total Wine for around $10.00. Ortas is a
wine brand of Cave de Rasteau (www.cavederasteau.com), which is the largest
wine producer in the northern Vaucluse region of France in Provence. Rasteau is a lovely old hill town located
north east of Orange, Chateauneuf du Pape and Avignon The wine label says Les Viguiers is made from
old vines with 70% Grenache, 20% Carignan and 10% Cinsault. I found the wine to be lovely and light. I liked it better than the Kirtland Côtes du
Rhône last night. The combination of
grapes gave it that Rhône complexity and the extra Grenache gave it fruitiness. 
Suzette said it was important to grill the eggplant
until it became creamy, which is when it turns to an opaque creamy color from
its white, color. She achieved that
perfectly.
Bon Appétit
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