December 26, 2015 Breakfast at Harry’s Roadhouse with Amy and Vahl, evening snacks with Kathryn and Mike

December 26, 2015 Breakfast at Harry’s Roadhouse with Amy and Vahl, evening snacks with Kathryn and Mike

We spent the night at Amy and Vahl’s house.  When we woke up this morning Vahl received a phone call from Kate, his step mother that Vahl’s father had passed away at the age of 98, which Vahl took very well.

At 10:00 we drove to Harry’s Roadhouse for breakfast.  Luke first ordered a waffle sprinkled with brown sugar and garnished with strawberries and whipped cream.

Then Suzette ordered trout and eggs, I ordered a Bilbao sausage hash ade with two eggs sunny side up served on top of a plate of country fried potatoes and diced Bilbao sausage. Amy ordered eggs en brodo, which was a mixtures of eggs fried with tortilla chips and served on a huaraches which is corn formed into the shape of sandal.

Vahl ordered Huevos Rancheros, and Luke ordered           .

After breakfast we drove to cos Bar so Suzette could buy La Mer.  Then we drove to the Railyard and walked to the El Museo Indoor flea market to shop.  Luke found nice quartz crystals he bought to give to attendees of his upcoming group trip to Panama and a wonderful shearling coat I bought him for his Christmas gift.  Suzette found an interesting African basket woven with fragrant smelling twigs into the shape of a bird’s nest.  We also visited David Richard’s gallery and saw lovely colored constructions of colored plexiglass by Christian Haup.

Both David and Richard were at the gallery and told us they were moving the gallery to Pacheco Street because the City of Santa Fe had raised the ground lease rental rate on the developers at the Railyard.

We then walked next door to Casa Nova and said hello to T.R. and Linda invited us to get together on January 16 at their house in Santa Fe.

We then.drive to Candyman so Luke could buy a battery powered speaker for his guitar for his trip to Panama and then Stephen’s Consignment. 

Finally at 1:30 Luke drove us home in a snow storm.  

We arrived home at 3:00 and watched TV until 5:30 when I took a shower and dressed.  

Mike and Kathryn arrived around 7:30 after having driven through the same storm. I prepared a snack of caviar, sour cream, onion and egg, and toasted slices of French baguette.  We also fetched the poached salmon from the garage and the cranberry mayo and the cauliflower cous Cous with chick peas, which has become much better after sitting for two days because the flavor of the preserved lemon permeated the dish.  I poured glasses of Mendoza Station Sauvignon Blanc, which was not overwhelmingly received.  Mike gave us a bottle of Gruet Brut and a La Crema Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir, which I had not ever drunk that I liked very much.  It was a little heavier than a delicate French pinot, but very drinkable.  After the La Crema, I re-filled glasses with Block Party pinot noir, which everyone liked also.  Block Party is a French Pinot made by George's Dubouef that I bought on close out at Quarters. 

I then chilled and poured a bottle of Gruet 25th anniversary Blanc de Blanc when Luke joined us at the table in the TV room where we ate our snacks for dinner and watched Batman Begins by the fire as the winter storm raged outside, which made us feel even more secure and warmed in the house and our friendship.

After snacks we passed around the box of Buffet’s chocolates.

We went to bed around 10:45 after the movie ended.

Bon Appetit