We started out by going to Carey Smoot’s and buying her mother’s wine rack which will fit in our kitchen perfectly. I then finalized the terms of a new lease on the Birdland this morning and then went to lunch with Nizar and Rahim at Thai Vegan. We ordered three items to share: Tom Yum Gai (coconut milk soup with lemon grass, kefir leaves, galangal root, mushrooms, Thai chilis, and imitation chicken), Pad Thai, and imitation chicken in green curry sauce served with Thai black rice. Everything tasted wonderful. I loved every dish. Thai a Vegan is my favorite Thai restaurant in Albuquerque. If I was a vegan I would eat there all the time.
After lunch we called Mohan in California and I announced that I was going to sell my interest in the California property, which will end the ten year partnership in that property.
During lunch Suzette called with the message that the small white truck had broken down again. She had to meet the counter top installers at home and because I was unable to pick her up, she had to take a taxi home from the Hilton parking lot where she left the broken truck.
After lunch I drove to Costco to get gas and shop for dinner. I bought sugar snap peas, a 1 ½ lb. Halibut steak ($10.99/lb.), a 48 count container of Ferraro Rocher candies, and Kleenex.
When I arrived home around 3:00 Cynthia was visiting and had brought us a container of kale salad and Mike and his crew were installing the black soapstone and white Quartz counter tops.
The kitchen is starting to look pretty good. Here is a picture.
At 4:45 we drove to the Crowne Plaza, which used to be the Hilton Hotel to deal with the little truck. It would not start, so Suzette called the tow company to come tow it to our house and we went into the bar for a beer to wait for the tow truck. We drank Sam Adam’s lager on tap for the Happy Hour price of $3.00 each.
We talked to the bar tender and found out that on Friday's there are fajitas served on the patio by the pool, which sounds like fun.
We returned home around 6:00 and after watching Kevin McCarthy withdraw his nomination as Speaker of the House of Representatives, we discussed cooking dinner. We had both had a full day, so we decided to make a simple dinner of grilled Halibut, Cynthia’s kale salad and fix the PPI Potato Soup from last night.
I cut slices of lime and Suzette cut slices of butter and found the fish holder for grilling and put the fish steak into the fish grilling rack incised in the lime slices and grilled it for twenty or twenty-five minutes.
I went to the garage fridge and fetched the large pot of potato soup and then the ½ of a ½ pint container of heavy cream, while Suzette found the hand held emulsion mixer and extension cord to get power to the Cajun cooker so she could use the mixer to purée the potato soup. Suzette heated the soup and added salt and pepper buy it still tasted bland. We decided to add nutmeg and thyme and more salt, which helped. After Suzette added the heavy cream, I went to check the recipe and we both concluded that we needed more cream, which I will get tomorrow.
We ate bowls of soup and when I added the last drops of cream from the container to a second bowl it tasted much more complete and creamy.
We drank the last of the PPI bottle of Santiago Station Sauvignon Blanc, which complemented the halibut and potato soup perfectly.
Suzette finished preparing eleven dolls the senior clients had made for sale at the Hubbell House Harvest Festival on Sunday, at which the Center for Ageless Living will have a booth and I read my book club book and ate a Ferrero Rocher and sipped a little Calvados..
I woke up at 2:30 and went to the garage fridge and got the new wedge of blue cheese and buttered bread and spread the bread with blue cheese and drank a glass of Monte Ducay and ate pear slices for a late night snack.
Bon Appetit
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