February 18, 2017 Lunch – PPI Posole. Dinner – Steamed Monkfish marinated in Soy Sauce, Chinese rice wine and sugar, julienned green onion spears and served with Spinach fried rice

February 18, 2017  Lunch – PPI Posole. Dinner – Steamed Monkfish marinated in Soy Sauce, Chinese rice wine and sugar, julienned green onion spears and served with Spinach fried rice

I made two eggs on a raft for breakfast.

Then we went looking for frames at garage sales and consignment shops.  Suzette bought 11 dozen champagne flutes and four frames at the first garage sale and two elegantly decorated pillows at the second.

We then went to Talin where we bought a pound of fresh monkfish for $9.99/ lb., beech mushrooms, Spanish canned pimientos, five spice seasoning, shallots, and canned sliced water chestnuts.

Then we found two nice frames at the consignment store At the north west corner of San Pedro and Central.

It was after noon so we went home and ate bowls of posole with sour cream and drank a beer.

It was 2:00 and I took a long nap until 5:00, when we showered and dressed for the evening.  I found a recipe for steamed fish in a soy, ginger, green onion, five spice seasoning, and oil sauce.  Suzette made the sauce and marinated the monkfish in it and then steamed the fish in the steamer oven.

Spinach Fried rice

While the fish was cooking Suzette chopped up some red bell pepper, ginger, garlic, and onion.  She also cleaned and sliced about 1/2 cup of mushrooms and fetched the fresh spinach and PPI rice from the fridge.

She started by stir frying the onion, bell, pepper, garlic and ginger.  After five or six minutes she added the mushrooms and cooked everything together for an additional three or four minutes.  The she added the spinach and rice and cooked everything for another four or five minutes until everything was integrated and heated.

We then piled spoonfuls of rice into pasta bowls and lay the fish on the pile and drizzled the fish with sauce and  garnished the fish with the julienned ginger and green onion.

Suzette drank Anjou Chenin Blanc and I drank green tea.

At 6:40 we left for concert at the NHCC celebrating The 65th Anniversary of the Pimentel family’s guitar business.  There were at least a dozen groups performing until 11:00 every type of music and every performer was a virtuoso performer.  The evening started with a guitar professor from UNM performing “come Together” by John Lennon and the Beatles acoustically and ended with the Watermelon Mountain Jug Band with lots of Classical, Flameco, mariachi, Gaelic, Cuban, and rock music in between.  One of my favorites was Dan Lambert from El Paso who played White Rabbit by the Jefferson Airplane with a drummer and Angela Roybal, who channeled Gracie Slick perfectly.

It was a fun evening of music.  At intermission we drank margaritas from the bar.

Bon Appetit