June 29, 2016 Food shopping, Miso Noodle Soup, Dinner – Pink Grouper baked in aluminum

June 29, 2016 Food shopping, Miso Noodle Soup,  Dinner – Pink Grouper baked in aluminum

I had not shopped for days, so today I went to Ta Lin in the morning and bought Baby Bok Choy, Taka Choy, shitake mushrooms, shallots, a 1.36 lb. piece of pink grouper, a 5 lb. can of Hoisin for $7.55, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, fresh mung bean sprouts, and a can of baby corn.

Then I went home and added a sliced shitake to the PPI Miso Noodle soup and re-heated it.  I went to the garden and picked basil leaves and garnished the hot soup with basil and Hoisen Sauce and added a handful of mung bean sprouts for a hot lunch.

After lunch I edited the Gila River brief and copied it and filed it in the Court of Appeals at 4:00.  I then went to Sprouts for the Wednesday double ad savings.  Sprouts has weekly specials that run from Wednesday through Wednesday, Wednesday's are double special days.  The store at San Mateo and Lomas was packed.  I bought fresh cherries for $1.68/lb., mushrooms for $3.99/lb., lamb shoulder chops for $2.99/lb., 7 grain granola for $2.99/lb., chocolate covered raisins for $2.99/lb., Mountain ??? yogurt for $2.50 for 32 oz., a hot house cucumber for $.88, and organic hot house tomatoes for $.98/lb. 

I meditated from6:30 to 8:00.  Before iI left for meditation When I had chopped up ¼ onion and 1/3 Anaheim chili and Luke had grated a carrot from Marjorie’s Chispa Farm.  Marjorie came by to visit Luke but did not stay for dinner, so around 8:30 i filleted the pink grouper and made four section of about 5 oz. each.  Suzette and Luke lay out two sheets of aluminum foil for each of four packets, placed a piece of fish in each and sprinkled the fish with carrot, onion, and green chili.  Suzette then put a couple of slices of butter amounting to about 1 oz. and crimped the foil of the inner sheet so that it formed a bowl a and I poured about 2 oz. of white wine into each packet and crimped the inner packet closed.  Then she crimped the outer sheet of aluminum foil around the inner packet to seal the inner packet inside the outer packet and baked the packers for 45 minutes in a 350 degree oven.  We find that the double sealed packet method insures that the ingredients are not exposed to air, thus baking and poaching at the same time.  The result is a fish and vegetables suffused in a lovely butter wine sauce.  Suzette usually adds a slice of butte to enrich the sauce.  We heat PPI rice and add spoonfuls of hot rice to the sauce in the opened packet to make a sort of Mexican congee.

Willy wanted stay and cook at his new apartment, so we ate around 9:30.  We opened another bottle of the 2010 Italian Vermentino produced by Perolla in San Felice, Tuscany; a white wine that was a lot better than the first bottle.  This wine had a decidedly buttery flavor and was refreshingly citrusy.  I am feeling a lot better about my purchase of a case of it for $3.99 per bottle at Quarters as a close out.

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Bon Appetit