May 23, 2017 Lunch – PPI Lamb Chop with Roasted vegetable. Dinner Party – Salmon grilled on a cedar plank seasoned with Sorrel Pesto, sautéed squashes, tossed salad, and rice dyed with cuttlefish ink.

May 23, 2017 Lunch – PPI Lamb Chop with Roasted vegetable. Dinner Party – Salmon grilled on a cedar plank seasoned with Sorrel Pesto, sautéed squashes, tossed salad, and rice dyed with cuttlefish ink.

I ate the plate Suzette plated with the PPIs from Sunday dinner for lunch.

      

We had invited Melissa and Cynthia and Ricardo for dinner at 6:30.  I don’t know what Suzette told Cynthia but Cynthia brought a tossed salad and sautéed zucchini and yellow squash, which fit perfectly into he three dishes we had made.  Suzette made rice dyed with cuttlefish ink and grilled two salmon filets on cedar boards that had been soaked in water and seasoned with the sorrel pesto she had made last week.  I had made Clafoutis on Sunday, a cherry custard for dessert.

Melissa arrived first and brought two rose’ wines from Costco, a Martin Ray Rose’ of Pinot Noir from the Russian River region and a bottle of Whispering Angel from Provence, France.

Cynthia and Ricardo brought a bottle of Kim Crawford, a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc

We drank Melissa ‘s two rose’s and then most of the Kim Crawford by the end of dinner.

The I opened a Gruet Brut to accompany the clafoutis.

The grill flared up, perhaps because of a section of resin in the wood and she had to douse the burning plank, so the sorrel pesto she had spread on the salmon was charred. So she put the container of sorrel pesto on the table and we spread it on the salmon, which was a nice taste addition and made the complementary flavors more evident.



There was a discussion about sorrel and how it has a bitter flavor and several persons noted interest when Suzette said that she had balanced the bitterness of the sorrel by adding raisins to the pesto.  The evening was pleasant, so we lingered at the table under the gazebo and talked about projects.  Melissa has started a new project to write the libretto for an operatic/musical production about a Asian refugee/immigrant now living in Brooklyn.



Ricardo is working on a film project on a mountain man named Coulter.

Willy joined us toward the end of the meal.

It seems like everyone of our vintage’s alarm clock goes off at 9:00 to 9:15. Everyone said goodnight then.

There were PPIs of everything. So we put up the PPIs and went to bed after a few minutes of TV watching to catch up on the newest news.

Bon Appetit