July 18, 2015 Picnic lunch at Kimbell Museum and family dinner of Poached Salmon, Rice with spinach and feta, grilled squashes and bell pepper, tzatziki, and Texas sheet cake

July 18, 2015 A Picnic Lunch at the Kimbell Museum and Poached Salmon, a mayonnaise sauce with Spinach and feta flavored rive, grilled squashes and red bell pepper

Suzette and I drove to Fort Worth this morning.  We attempted to go to two flea markets.  Onesie not exist and the other was a  Mexican mercado with mostly cheap clothing, which we were not interested in.  We drove to Ferguson Home furnishing store on 7th near the museums.  We then drove to the Kimbell Museum.  We took our lunch bag in with the cooler with duck pate, couplet cheese, steamed string beans with almond and a bottle of Chateau Saumen cru Bourgeois Bordeaux 2011 we had bought at Central Market for $14.99.

We ate our lunch on the lawn between the old Kahn museum and the new Piano pavilion.  After lunch we went into the Piano Pavillon and saw the traveling exhibit from the Scottish National Gallery.  The were lots of wonderful pictures.  My favorites were, Vermeer’s painting of Jesus in the House of Mary and Martha and a incredible Frederich Church painting of Niagara Falls.

After the Scottish show we went through the permanent collection and saw tw o nice Van Goghs from the Perry Bass collection, the new Michelangeo and the Carravagio card players.

We the drove back the Billy and Elaine’s and took a nap.  We went to their kitchen around 5:00 and they were both in motion in the kitchen.  Elaine had made a court bouillon to use to poach a lovely large Atlantic salmon fillet.  Billy hade made a herbed Tzatziki sauce, and was making rice and the added feta cheese and fresh spinach for a risotto like texture, but without all of the stirring. Elaine grilled crock neck squash, zucchini squash and a red bell pepper also.  

Sandy and Rita came, as did Jessie, Marion, and Celia.  We had a lovely dinner in the dining room.  We served the new 2014  Chap.  Cotes du Rhone rose. 

For dessert Elaine made a delicious Texas white sheet cake with a boiled milk, butter and confectioner’s sugar icing.

After dinner Celia taught us how to play Apples to Apples.

Then Billy showed us Absence of Malice, an older Sally Fields and Paul Newman movie

Bon Appetit