We awakened at around 8:00 a.m. at Amy and Vhal's and had tea with spoonsful of Suzette’s
new crop of honey she gave Amy and Vhal when we arrived late last
night. Vhal had a tennis match in
Albuquerque at 8:00 so we missed him in the morning but Amy told us about
their recent trip to Scotland and their visit with Dela and Willy, showing us
pictures of the Loch Ness and other notable sites like the Isle of Skye, which is the McCrimmon's ancestral homeland.
We planned to meet for lunch
at Harry’s Roadhouse and drove to
the Farmer’s Market in Santa Fe and bought rhubarb, delicate squashes, beautiful
yellow and red tomatoes, green chili for Vhal and okra for Amy. We then went to the Trader’s Market north of
the opera and Suzette was successful in finding the gauzy white embroidered
Indian shirt she wanted and also found a lovely black and grey layered cotton shirt.
At around 11:30 we drove to Harry’s Roadhouse for our noon rendezvous
with Amy and Vhal. They arrived a couple
of minutes after we did. Vhal had won
his doubles match in Albuquerque and when pressed announced that his is the top seated
doubles pair in his age category in New Mexico.
We discussed his trip planned for Tuesday when he travels to Washington
to play Tom Udall in a match and his planned visit to the Barnes Collection
in Philadelphia. Vhal and Suzette ordered a daily special of fried Mahi Mahi
sandwich with fried plantains and black beans and a mustard dressing, which was
very crisp and delicious. Amy got her
favorite New Mexico breakfast, Huevos Rancheros, which we discovered is served all day long. I ordered vegetable couscous, which was described as a pile of couscous covered with a vegetable stew including an assortment of butternut squash, raisins,
potatoes, cauliflower, and garbanzo beans served with harissa and charmoula
sauces.
Unfortunately, when it arrived
it had lots of potatoes and no butternut squash. I complained to the waiter and sent it back
to be re-done. When it was returned it
had four or five pieces of butternut squash and only one or two pieces of potato
and I enjoyed it very much and offered it to the others to try. I liked the charmoula sauce and
harissa sauce, that seemed to be freshly made at the restaurant. I got a very direct recollection/hit of
Morocco. Here is a recipe for charmoula
sauce, which can be used with many dishes, either as a sauce or a marinade:
Servings:
2-3
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salt and black pepper
After
lunch we returned to Santa Fe and visited Zaplin-Lambert Gallery where we were
pleasantly surprised that Richard had sold Suzette’s consigned George Catlin
drawing for a price of $14,400.00 to the director or one of the curators for
the Peabody-Excess Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. She was happy that it had found a good home.
We
then went to visit with Aaron Payne at his gallery and admired his Cady Wellses
and especially his catalogs. Aaron gave
us a great tip about how to find rare publications by going to bookfinder.com.
True
to Nat Owings' word on Friday, Owings’ Gallery was closed, but we could hear the music from
the Santa Fe Fiesta street festival still going strong a block away. I came to the conclusion that buying art
requires silence and contemplation and street fairs are not conducive to buying
fine art.
We
decided to leave downtown Santa Fe and look for hinges for a shelf for the new
mud room we had constructed where the utility room used to be in our house in
the architectural furnishings galleries along Cerrillos Road. I read the New Yorker while Suzette
shopped. She did not find any hinges but
she did find a nice newly made Mexican wrought iron garden hose rack for
$45.00.
We
then drove back to Albuquerque.
When
we arrived in Albuquerque, we drove to Costco and bought 10 boneless sirloin
pork chops, a piece of tuna, a box of organic lettuce, white fish salad and few
other items.
We drove home and made Calabacitas, using one of the pitty pan squashes we
bought at the Chile Connection the other day, the kernels from the last 2½ ears
of corn boiled for Wednesday’s party, four green chilis that had been bought
and roasted at Chili Connection, and an onion.
When the calabacitas were cooked we grilled two of the pork chops and
opened a bottle of 2013 D'Autrefois Pays d'Oc Pinot Noir Rosé ($9.99 at Total Wine).
After
dinner we each ate a fudge brownie left from Suzette's girls' group birthday party with scoops of vanilla ice cream and
spoonfuls of whipped cream. I really liked
the combination of whipped cream and ice cream together.
Bon
Appétit
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