October 11, 2015 Microwave Breakfast Burrito, Dinner – Vichyssoise, Dungeness Crab, Sugar Snap Peas, on Avocado

October 11, 2015  Microwave Breakfast Burrito,  Dinner – Vichyssoise, Dungeness Crab, Sugar Snap Peas, on Avocado 

I made a breakfast burrito with the PPI steak, cheese, bacon, and potatoes from yesterday's Brunch by chopping 2 Tbsp. of onion and the bacon into a pyrex bowl and heating it in the microwave for 3:00 minutes and then adding the rest of the PPI ingredients to the bowl and stirring in two eggs and heating that mixture another 3,to 5 minutes until it was thoroughly cooked and then heating a fresh tortilla for 15 seconds to warm it.  Then I simply cut the round mass of cooked ingredients into two pieces and stuffed them into the warmth tortilla.

I drove Suzette and her tent, tables, and goods to the Hubbell House for Annual Fall Festival at 9:45 and picked her up at 3:45. 

The electricians were working in the kitchen and installing the speakers of in the den for the surround sound for the TV and moving the stove, dishwasher and refrigerator into the house and the wine fridge from the basement to the kitchen today. The plumbers will likely come on Tuesday to make the final connections and we will have a fully functioning kitchen.

After I dropped Suzette off at home a little after 4:00 I went to the Ranch Market and purchased lines ($.67/lb.), two large avocados ($.99 each), a gallon of milk ($2.50), a dozen large eggs ($1.99), and 2 lbs. of medium heads off shrimps ($5.49/lb.). 

I had bought a Dungeness Crab on Friday at Costco ($7.99/lb.) and a quart of heavy cream, so at 5:30 I brought the bucket of soup we made last Tuesday at Susan and Charlie's house into the patio and Suzette added enough cream to bring the flavors into balance.  It still is lacking a bit of white pepper I suspect but it is very close to wonderful.  We ladled small bowls of vichyssoise, I cracked the crab into halves and cleaned the crab, cut and peeled and cut one of the avocados in half, Suzette quartered a tomato from the garden and I lay a bed of Bibb lettuce leaves on two plates and placed the other ingredients on the plate and the took the 

mignonette mayonnaise sauce - I had made yesterday evening with mayonnaise, a minced shallot, a spoonful of capers, a spoonful of horseradish, and two minced Thai chilis from the fridge and divided it into two ramekins.  I toasted pieces of Fano baguette and  poured glasses of a bottle of Alfred Moriconi Selection, which is Total Wine's exclusive label Christian Salmon Sancerre (Total Wine $14.99 less 15%) I had chilled during the day and we ate a beautiful cool dinner in the garden.  It actually warmed into the 80s today so it was still pleasantly warm at 6:00.  The Sancerre is a legitimately wonderful Sancerre and worth every penny of the $12.74 it cost. 

After dinner we moved into the house and watched the new Masterpiece Theater series, Home Fires and an episode from the Indian Summer series with several Ferrero Rocher and glasses of cognac for Suzette and Trimbach fruit brandy for me.

At 9:00 we went to bed.

Bon Appetit