After a great meal at the Greenhouse Bistro and a good night’s sleep we awakened and refreshed and ready for a day of shopping for our Christmas Eve Buffet and Suzette’s Employee Christmas Party at the Center for Ageless Living. Suzette had settled on the menu of old favorites; posole, tamales, roasted root vegetables, mulled wine, and smoked salmon; and new for this year, four desserts from the Great British Bake Off on PBS.
We made huevos rancheros for breakfast with PPI ham and some of the PPI Pork, potato and sauerkraut casserole and a dash of Cholulu red sauce.
We first drove to World Market, where we found Amaretto cookies, French sponge cakes, apricot preserves and a German mustard.
We were looking for Mince meat, so we called Talin Market and they had two different brands of December 17, 2016 Lunch – East Ocean and shopping for Christmas Eve Buffet
After a great meal at the Greenhouse Bistro and a good night’s sleep we awakened and refreshed and ready for a day of shopping for our Christmas Eve Buffet and Suzette’s Employee Christmas Party at the Center for Ageless Living. Suzette had settled on the menu of old favorites; posole, tamales, roasted root vegetables, mulled wine, and smoked salmon; and new for this year, four desserts from the Great British Bake Off on PBS.
We made huevos rancheros for breakfast with PPI ham and some of the PPI Pork, potato and sauerkraut casserole and a dash of Cholulu red sauce.
We first drove to World Market, where we found Amaretto cookies, French sponge cakes, apricot preserves and a German mustard.
We were looking for Mince meat, so we called Talin Market and they had two different brands of
vegetarian mince meat, so we went there next and found a chunky 14 oz. bottle of real English mincemeat plus a bottle of Mexican vanilla paste. I also replenished our shallots and bought a piece of fresh ginger. On the way to Talin we stopped at the flea market store on San Mateo 1 block south of Central where Suzette found the perfect metal lockable treasure chest for her Christmas party on its own metal stand for $40.00.
After Talin we were still looking for some specialty baking ingredients, so we drove to the Specialty Store, where we found fine granulated sugar.
We walked across the parking lot and discovered a wonderful new shop Vintage Market and Design at 5901 Lomas NE with room after room of wonderful items, such as scented matches, French wrapping papers, and French soaps. I bought bars of Pre-Provence French Soaps as Hanukkah gifts.
It was a bit after noon when we started for Costco and Suzette mentioned eating a hot dog and I asked, “Would you rather eat Chinese? When she said, “Always”, I maneuvered the car into the Comanche exit on I-25 and drove to East Ocean. Suzette ordered BBQ Pork with LoMein noodles, which I think was a little too crispy for her tender throat. I ordered my usual scallops in Lobster sauce, which is $6.85 with tea, sweet and sour chicken, and a bowl of really good egg drop soup.
After refreshing ourselves with a lunch at East Ocean we tackled the mobs at Costco, where we found baking flour and all purpose flour, Posole, pork tenderloin, tamales, Cabot’s cheddar cheese, and Stilton cheese, strawberries, blueberries, pistachios, sliced almonds, lemon juice, lemons, heavy cream, half and half, olives, and several other items. We then drove to Sprouts where we bought Borden’s Nonesuch mincemeat, pears, apples, parsnips, sweet potatoes, leeks for postage, milk, and I bought some more double dipped chocolate covered peanuts.
Finally, at 2:00 we drove to Gruet Winery and sipped a glass of Brut Rose and bought a case of Brut champagne.
After our full day of shopping we drove home at 3:00, unloaded the car and napped for the rest of the afternoon.
I awakened at 6:00 and showered and joined Suzette and Willy in the TV room and watched the end of George Clooney and Michelle Kidman movie about stopping Serbian terrorists from blowing up NYC with an atomic device in the early 90’s, while I ate two chocolate chip cookies and an apple with a cup of tea for dinner.
At 7:00 we went to the Outpost for a performance of Berber music by a group from Morocco named Aza.
Riya Rothenberger, who had prepared the food for the green room for the band said hello, as did Rick Barrish, who had consulted with me about a Quiet title case regarding property located on the Atrisco Grant.
We loved the music and agreed we needed to return to Morocco soon.
The concert ended at 10:00 and we drove home to watched the first few skits of Saturday Night Live, with some scathing humor directed toward Trump and his family.
Bon Appetit
No comments:
Post a Comment