We enjoyed a leisurely morning and at around 9:30 began
cooking breakfast. We decided to make a
mushroom and leek and salmon omelet. We
used the PPI teriyaki salmon, some of the fresh leeks we bought at Ta Lin last
weekend and about ½ cup of the fresh chanterelle mushrooms I bought at Costco
this last Thursday.
I cut up the chanterelles and Suzette tore about ½ cup of
salmon into pieces and sliced about three Tbsps. of leek thinly and stirred
four or five eggs.I
decided to try the Dry Creek Sauvignon Blanc ($10.99 Costco) that I had bought at Costco on Thursday with the omelet and it was wonderful. It was a warm sunny day and we enjoyed our meal in the garden and chatted for over an hour as we drank the bottle of wine with and after our omelet.
I was tired after having worked from 6:00 am until 8:00 am
and could not work today so I dosed and read “The Pot Thief who loved
Escoffier”.
Until about 3:00 and then rode the 15 mile southern loop
past Rio Bravo and fields of Sand Hill cranes and Canada Geese.
I rested a bit more until 5:00 when I took shower and got dressed
for our dinner party at the Souder Graf’s.
We took a bag with 4 Manger’s Apple Ciders and walked over to their
house on Kit Carson.
When we arrived we were ushered into their lovely remodeled
den with its two story high ceiling and seated on couches and served three
different Irish cheeses and cocktails of Irish Jameson whiskey and Ginger Beer
with a piece of crystalized ginger (Trader Joe’s). I loved the drink and when it was time for a
refill I asked to try an apple cider and Jameson and that was good also,
although the flavors of the apple cider and the Jameson stood out a bit more (were not so well integrated). Perhaps for the
lack of the ginger.
While we were sitting drinking our cocktails and watching
pictures the Jim and Diane took when they shepherded their younger daughter, Rachel, to Aberdeen, Scotland and took a side trip to Ireland including a visit to
Willie in Dublin. Diane heated bowls of Irish stew half covered with puff
pastry in the oven to make a sort of Irish beef pot pie.
She also prepped a fresh salad and in a few more bites of cheese on
crackers, Suzette helped Diane place the bowls of hot Irish stew with their
toasted crust on plates and we were ready to sit down to a table laid with
stew, salad and a freshly baked loaf of Irish soda bread homemade by Diane. This was a lovely meal. I ate all of my stew which turned out to be
too much because Diane had outdone herself by making a Bailey’s Cream ice box
pie, using eggs, 3 Tbsp. of each of Bailey’s and Jameson’s whiskey, milk and
cocoa, and a packet of gelatin and a bit of sugar as the filling for a graham
cracker crust that was then frozen.
The pie was glorious.
I had a second piece because it was so unusual. Diane made decaf coffee and it was delicious
with the pie, but when I poured a bit of Bailey’s Irish Cream into my second
cup of coffee, the Bailey’s flavor was too much creaminess for my taste.
At around 9:30 we said goodnight and walked home under a
clear sky with full moon and bright stars and planets beaming down on us.
Sorry for the lack of pictures of the meal. Suzette's camera is not transmitting its photos to my computer.
Bon Appétit
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