January 24, 2016 Breakfast – Blueberry Pancake, sautéed roasted pork chop, fruit salad and yogurt, Dinner – Duck confit salad
During the morning news shows I peeled and diced 1 papaya, two mangoes, three oranges and a pineapple to make a tropical fruit salad of the type we usually make in PV or Sayulita.
We made breakfast this morning. We used the last of the blueberries and blackberries to make pancakes. I thinly sliced the last PPI roasted pork chop which Suzette sautéed in olive oil as a bacon substitute. We garnished the pancakes with Maple syrup and yogurt.
I rode to Rio Bravo at 11:00. When I returned we picked greens, turnips, and radishes from our garden for our planned duck confit salad for dinner and Suzette washed and then spun them and bagged them and put them in the fridge. We then then drove to Home Depot for light bulbs, s hooks to hang the utensils in the kitchen, and screws to use to mount the new Florence Pierces.
We then drove across the street to Costco where we bought Hershey’ chocolate syrup, spinach, sugar snap peas, a bunch of yellow tulips, and Suzette bought several items she needed to remodel a bathroom in Los Lunas including a toilet. Then it was back home to watch the AFC and NFC playoff games. Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers looked dominant and I suspect will be favored to win the Super Bowl.
At 5:00 I diced the turnips, three Yukon Gold potatoes and an organic leek from Sprouts, which Suzette tossed with olive oil and salt and pepper and baked in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes covered with aluminum foil and then uncovered for twenty to thirty minutes..
While the vegetables were roasting I de-boned the duck and sliced the five radishes we had picked and I went to the gardens and picked fresh rosemary and garlic chives, which I chopped and used to flavor a balsamic vinegar, Dijon mustard and olive oil salad dressing with a bit of salt and two twists of fresh ground black pepper, which I let sit for about thirty minutes before dinner. I also opened a bottle of 2013 Tuella Portuguese red wine from the Duero Valley (Trader Joe's for $6.99) and Suzette cut slices of Fano baguette.
When Suzette was heating the diced duck in olive oil she said, “this is not enough duck. We need more meat. Please dice up a piece of the PPI Bobby Flay chicken”, which I did and then I added a small handful of Nicoise olives from those Cynthia and Ricardo had brought yesterday.
In a few more minutes we were enjoying a lovely salad composed by Suzette of fresh romaine lettuce and greens from our garden garnished with warm roasted vegetables and sautéed duck, Nicoise olives, and chicken dressed with the lovely, creamy balsamic dressing.
After we ate our salad I ate several slices of the hard Italian San Joaquin cheese on my third piece of bread with sips of the dark complexly fruity Duero red. The complexity of Duero wines, in my opinion, is the result of cultivation of the 77 different type of grapes grown in the Duero Valley randomly. When one grape vine fails it is randomly replaced with another of the same or a different variety typically, which produces the unique complexity of Duero wine and port.
Then before this week’s episode of Downton Abbey I opened the chocolate sauce and Suzette chopped and in sautéed a small handful of pecans in 1/2 Tbsp. of butter. She then scooped Java Chip ice cream into small bowls and I garnished them with chocolate syrup and Suzette topped them with the hot sautéed pecans. She drank cognac with her dessert and I doused mine with rum and we watched TV.
We then soaked in the hot tub and went to bed around 9:30.
I think we planted our winter garden in September and covered three of the four raised beds and the chard in the garden with a frame of PVC and sheets of plastic. The result has been fabulous; Beautiful greens and large tender turnips and radishes so far, with carrots, daikons, and beets hopefully to follow.
Bon Appetit
No comments:
Post a Comment