September 5, 2016 Brunch – PPI Chirashi Donburi. Dinner – grilled Porterhouse steak, PPI Roasted vegetables, and Cesar Salad

September 5, 2016 Brunch – PPI Chirashi Donburi. Dinner – grilled Porterhouse steak, PPI Roasted vegetables, and Cesar Salad

We slept in this morning.  Finally at around 11:00 I ate the PPI Chirashi Donburi from Friday lunch.  While I ate Suzette made egg salad and three egg salad sandwiches.  After I finished my sashimi, we packed up a lunch of beers, the egg salad sandwiches, the fresh grapes, an apple and ice water.  We packed the food and beers in freezer bags of ice in a back pack and set out for Carlitos Springs on the Southeast side of the Sandias.  Suzette drove us in her convertible.  We parked in the parking lot and hiked up the trail.  I had to stop several times for grapes and water, but made it without suffering any undue harm.  Carlitos Springs was a resort built around 7500 feet up the Sandias at the turn of the century that Albuquerque Open Space has acquired.  There are several cabins and a main lodge that are now boarded, but the spring still flows and fills several ponds.

After Suzette ate an egg salad sandwich and drank a beer, we walked back down the main road instead of the trail.  As we walked down the road a diamondback rattlesnake shook its rattles at us from a shady spot by the road.  It has been 50 years since I saw a live diamondback in the wild.  We moved to the other side of the road and kept our eyes open after that.  

When we returned home I took a nap and at 5:00 we watched the Business news and other news programs and we ate a few chips with the PPI red salad Suzette made yesterday.

At 7:00 we began cooking.  I made a Cesar salad and Sizette grilled the steak.  Willy joined us for dinner as we watched the Antiques Road Show. The steak was delicious and the roasted vegetables tasted better today than yesterday.  Willy and I ate seconds of Cesar Salad, so it must have been good also.

I added fresh lemon juice and olive oil and salt and an egg yolk to the PPI ½ bottle of Cesar Salad dressing in the fridge to freshen it.

I grated Pecorino Romano cheese on fresh cut Romaine Lettuce and Suzette made fresh croutons from an old Fano French baguette.

Suzette opened a bottle of La Finca Malbec from Mendoza, Argentina.  We liked it a lot with the steak, especially since it had cost only $3.99 at Trader Joe’s.

Bon Appetit