February 21, 2016 Brunch – Gravad Lax and cream cheese on French baguette, Dinner - PPI Chinese food, Evening snack - Cheese and wine

February 21, 2016 Brunch – Gravad Lax and cream cheese on French baguette, Dinner - PPI Chinese food,  Evening snack - Cheese and wine

Today we did not cook, we worked and snacked.  While I watched the news programs Suzette began cleaning the raised beds and started cleaning out the other side of the garage that is still a clutter.

At 9:30 I joined her in the garage and we moved cabinets and made piles of used lumber and trash.  

At Ii:00ish  we decided to try the new gravad lax, so I went to the kitchen and sliced into three slices and toasted and spread with cream cheese a six inch long piece of Fano baguette and sliced a Roma tomato, ¼ red onion, and about nine or ten slices of the fresh gravad lax.  Suzette came into the house and made herself a Bloody Mary with the Tito’s Vodka and Clamato juice she bought at Costco yesterday and I poured a glass of the PPI tomato juice in the fridge and flavored it with the juice of ½ lime.  We put the platter of ingredients on a tray with plates and napkins and the bottle of capers and took the tray and drinks to the gazebo table and enjoyed our first brunch of the year in the bird bath garden, which is under reconstruction.

The day was sunny and warm, so after brunch we decided to play bocce.  We played for a while and then Suzette went back to her work in the garage and I trimmed the roses in the back yard until 2:30 when we decided we were tired and sore and needed to rest.  At around 4:30 we got up with hunger.  I suggested eating the PPI Chinese food from yesterday!s lunch at East Ocean.  Suzette fetched it from the garage and we re-heated it in a pyrex loaf pan in the microwave and ate while we watched McLaughlin Report.

At 5:00 we determined that the rest of our TV viewing was set for the evening on PBS, with the sequence of news, Charlie Rose, then an episode of Doc Martin, and two episodes of Downton Abbey.

At 7:00 before the beginning of Downton Abbey, Suzette got a scotch and I made a plate with four slices of Comte cheese and a piece of whole wheat bread spread with butter topped with slices of French Brie and poured out the last of the bottle of Village Mt. Eden Pinot Noir.  We shared the Comte and I enjoyed the brie and wine.  The Villa Mt. Eden was still smooth and pleasant.  I may buy some more. 

By 9:00 Suzette was ready to go to bed but I hung on until 11:30 and watched “High Plains Drifter” with Clint Eastwood.  

Bon Appetit