After watching the news shows at 10:15 we went to the garden and uncovered the two vegetable raised beds and picked dill, lettuce and sorrel. I then fried five slices of thick Applewood smoked bacon from Costco and we made BLT sandwiches with the fresh lettuce.
We then gathered up the Von Hassler print and the frame we had bought yesterday and went to Michael’s with our coupon for reduced cost framing. The cost for framing the print in our $12.94 frame was $60.00. We decided to take the Von Hassler on artist board on Monday. Suzette bought six frames on ½ price sale to frame the folk art paintings she bought in China for $136.00, which was a remarkable $23.00 each.
It was 2:00 by this time and we were tired of shopping, so we drove home and ate a late lunch of the PPI Pasta and Pork Goulash and I cooked the artichokes in a pot of simmering water for an hour and we decided to grills steaks for dinner, so we thawed out two steaks.
I slept after lunch until 4:30 and then went to the kitchen. I called Willy and invited him to eat dinner with us. I then chopped five small potatoes, the last bit of sweet potato, three carrots, the last golden beet and several turnips from our garden. We then went back out to cover the two raised beds and I picked a handful of Rosemary's the roasted vegetables. Suzette took over and added cloves of garlic and tossed the vegetables in olive oil and salt and cooked the vegetables covered with aluminum foil for 30 minutes at 350 degrees and then added the chunks of Kabocha squash we had in the fridge and cooked the vegetables for an additional 30 minutes uncovered. While Suzette was cooking I refreshed the Cesar salad dressing with lemon juice, olive oil, a bit of salt and a whipped egg.
I then made a mayonnaise sauce with lemon juice, a bit of olive oil, the dill we had picked in the garden, a bit of salt, and the last cup of mayonnaise. I went to the cellar and moved the new wine rack into position and opened two cases of wine that needed to be moved to make room for the wine. I found two bottles of Riscal 2006 Tempranillo and decided to drink one of them for dinner, so took it upstairs.
I decided rather than salad we should eat the string beans I bought at El Super last Wednesday, so cleaned about ½ lb. of those and put them in the steamer basket.
At 7:00 Suzette started the grill and at 7:30 grilled the steaks and artichokes. The artichokes were done perfectly but The steaks were carried, probably due to fire from burning olive oil from the artichokes that dripped onto the steaks and caught fire. The steaks were cooked to medium, which was Willy and my preference, so no one complained. I had taken a container of Béarnaise sauce out of the fridge, so much of the charred flavor was alleviated by the application of sauce. The vegetables were tender and delicious with their slight hint of rosemary.
The string beans were pleasantly soft and tender and benefited from a dab of Béarnaise sauce also.
The wine was the real surprise. It had a clarity that was amazing. We drank mostly young Rioja Tempranillo and I had forgotten how good aged Tempranillo can taste. This was a bottle of regular Tempranillo and simply aging it allowed the musty organic material to settle out of the wine to result in a wine of intense clarity but with a slight tannic bite and some fruitiness. Suzette thought it had a slight Zinfandel acidity and spiciness.
I recommend aging your Tempranillo.
I finished my wine with a few bites of the Camembert cheese I had bought at Trader Joe’s.
A wonderful meal.
Bon Appetit
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