Sunday, February 1, 2015

January 31, 2015 Breakfast Old Taos Guesthouse Lunch Lan’s in Santa Fe Dinner Cesar Salad

January 31, 2015 Breakfast   Old Taos Guesthouse  Lunch   Lan’s in Santa Fe   Dinner  Cesar Salad

We started the day with a lovely breakfast at 9:00 at the Old Taos Guesthouse of Quiche Lorraine, a muffin and a small bowl of fresh fruit with yogurt and tea and orange juice.

Then we then drove south to Santa Fe to see the Modernist show at Georgia O’Keefe Museum and visited Talbot’s Gallery to see some modernist prints tot were overpriced.  The Modernist show at the O’Keefe was terrific.  The O'Keefe was showing Raymond Jonson's 1940 No. 10 oil painting with similar elements to my 1940 No. 10 watercolor.  We then drove to Stephen’s and did not see anything interesting.  It was 2:00 so we stopped at Lan’s for lunch and split a lamb wonton appetizer and a bowl of Coconut Soup with seafood.   Both dishes were amazing.  The lamb wonton was garnished with thinly sliced and fried shallot with olive oil and an Oriental basil infused vinegar or oil.  The soup had pickled ginger, tomatoes, scallops, shrimps, large green lipped mussels, and a bit of salmon, and onion slices in a rich rice vermicelli noodle soup with a medley of herbs that was foreign to me such as on that tasted like thinly sliced kefir lemon leaf that Lan called “bram”.

After the late lunch we drove to Albuquerque and took a short nap.  Then we went to the opening for the 516 Gallery featuring Albuquerque artists and then walked to Fisher Gallery at 203 3rd St. to see the Bob Ellis and Ann Dunbar opening.  We then went home and I made the only thing I could think to eat after a several days of eating, Cesar Salad.  Suzette spun a bowl of Bibb lettuce and l made a Cesar Dressing with smoked anchovies, the juice of 1 lemon, a dash of salt, about 2/3 cup of olive oil and an egg.   I shredded about ½ cup of Romano Pecorino cheese and garnished the salad with the fresh croutons we had made.   Suzette drank the PPI Il Donato red wine and I drank PPI San Francisco Station Sauvignon Blanc.


Bon Appétit      

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