We had a leisurely morning packing up luminaras. At around 10:00 we decided to have an omelet,
so I took out all the ingredients I thought would be great together: sliced
cooked ham, 2 Tbsps. of onion, an avocado, some shredded jack cheese and
several mushrooms and sliced them into small cubes and then I mixed the two egg
whites in the fridge with three eggs. I
then snapped three sprigs of oregano from our indoor plant and six or seven
stalks of chives and chopped them finely.
After I had sautéed the ham, onion, avocado and mushrooms, I poured the eggs
whipped with a whisk over those ingredients in the large skillet. After a minute I placed the shredded cheese
and half of the oregano and chives on top of the omelet. After about five minutes when the eggs had
stiffened I folded one-half of the omelet over onto the other half and reduced the
heat because Suzette was on the phone. I put a puddle of the fresh tomatillo sauce that Suzette had made last weekend on each of two plates.
I toasted a roll and heated water for tea and when Suzette was
finished I garnished the of the omelet with fresh oregano and chives and served the omelet with the roll and cherry preserves. Viola! It was lovely and full of goodies. I decided to use a similar ingredients on Sunday
evening to make quiche and invite the Palmers over for dinner.
We had been discussing whether to go to Santa Fe, and at
around 11:00 we finally decided to go because we wanted to see the Renaissance
to Goya Spanish drawings exhibit at the Fine Arts Museum.
We first went to Stephens Consignment and when we told the
man who helped us look at three teak bar stools that we were interested in
indoor bar stools for our new kitchen remodel, he said that he sent most of the furniture items to their other store called the Consignment Warehouse?and suggested that we visit it. So we drove out Cerrillos to Richards and then to Ruffino and found the store. It had several interesting items and a lovely
selection. There were actually two fabric
covered Italian bar stools ($75.00 each) that we liked and we bought them and put them in the
car and drove to the Museum. When we got
into the exhibit we saw Michele and Ed Houston and invited them to join us at
La Boca for dinner at 5:30 p.m. I did
not like the drawing show very much because much of it was cartoons for murals
in churches in the Baroque style, kind of like going to see fifty churches. Yuck. There were several lovely drawings
that were genre compositions and cartoons for portraits of Saints and Cardinals
that were finished drawings without the grids drawn on them. The drawings were masterfully drawn with good technique and lots of grey and white gouache to delineate the curves and shadows of cloth.
When we were buying our tickets at the Fine Arts Museum I
had asked the cashier what exhibit was at the O’Keefe Museum and he said a Lake George
Exhibit, so after meeting Ed and Michele and seeing all of the Spanish show and
the six O’Keefes at the Fine Arts Museum, we decided to go to the O’Keefe and
see the Lake George show because it was a little after 4:00 p.m. We loved the Lake George exhibit, especially
the magenta and purple leaves that we had never seen before. I especially liked a scene of Lake George covered
in layers of fog that had that imperceptible foreground and background so
common to symbolist paintings like Roerich’s .
After the O’Keefe, we walked to La Boca and arrived at 4:40
p.m. Luckily, the tapas special menu is served
from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00, so we were in time to take advantage of the Tapas Menu,
which means that everything was half-price.
We ordered a bottle of red 2009 Ergo Tempranillo from Rioja for $26.00 and six
tapas on the menu ($5.00 and 6.00 each), because we expected Ed and Michele to join us at 5:30 and we
wanted to make sure that they tasted the tapas.
The first two tapas brought out were a trio of small square ramekins and
a side of grilled yogurt flat bread slices and a plate of kale salad garnished
with olive oil fried garbanzo beans and garlic cloves and lightly dressed with a lemon vinaigrette. The ramekins were filled with a harissa carrot
hummus, one with beet puree garnished with a dab of goat’s cheese, and my favorite
one with white bean and artichoke puree, After a while our waitress brought us out
two small paella pans, one filled with fried cubes of chorizo sausage and
potatoes and the other filled with morcilla (blood sausage), chorizo sausage,
and fried cubes of potato and toped with a over easy fried egg. I loved the flavor of the morcilla and the egg made a lovely sauce with the hot olive oil. We ate some of the sausage and potato and egg tapas
and left some for Ed and Michele, but at around 5:45 we realized that they
would probably not make it, so we took another glass of wine and realized that
we had a large meal of tapas to consume. When the Seasonal tapas menu was placed on the table, we realized that we would not be able to even think about eating any of those lovely tapas.
Finally, we were brought two more tapas, Patatas Bravas (long wedges of fried
potatoes covered with a spicy sherry vinegar sauce and roasted garlic aioli) and a pork tenderloin skewer (Pincho de Puerco) lightly grilled so
that the inside was still pink, just the way I like it, on a plate with a smear
of apricot honey puree. garnished with slices of briny green Manzanilla olives. By this time we were
really stuffed and we barely managed to finish the pork tenderloin because it
was so delicious and about half of the potatoes. By about 6:45 we were really stuffed and when
our waitress asked us if we wanted a dessert, Suzette could only collectively laugh.
We made it home by around 8:30 p.m. happy and full of
Spanish art and tapas.
Bon Appétit and Salud
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