May 5, 2017 Lunch – French Onion Soup. Dinner – Cinco de Mayo Specials at Greenhouse Bistro and Bakery

May 5, 2017  Lunch – French Onion Soup.  Dinner – Cinco de Mayo Specials at Greenhouse Bistro and Bakery

I had a cocoa and coffee for breakfast.  Then at 11:30 I fetched the PPI French Onion Soup from the garage and heated it and melted slices of Swiss Gruyere cheese on toasted slices of French bread.  I then put the toasted cheese croutons on top of the bowl of hot soup for a traditional French Onion Soup without baking the soup.  I drank a glass of 2009 Fleury Cotes Du Rhone red wine with a couple of cubes of ice in it.



At 3:15  I drove to the Center for Ageless Living and had a massage.

At 5:30 I went to the Greenhouse Bistro and waited for Suzette, who arrived a few minutes after me.  We peruse the menu specials.  Here is a photo of the May Menu.

We decided to try the Verde Felix salad, the Fish Veracruz, and the Slow Braise.

The salad was greens, shredded carrots, zucchini, fresh lightly sautéed garbanzo beans and corn kernels garnished with fresh grilled Oaxaca cheese and dressed with a slightly sweet cilantro dressing.  We really liked this salad and found it to be the equal of a similar one we ate in Oaxaca recently.

We asked for bread and soon a basket of thinly sliced grilled baguette was served to us.  The baguette was freshly baked in the on premises bakery and was delicious with the salad.

Next came the entrees.  The fish Veracruz was served in aluminum foil; a filet of tilapia with oven roasted tomatoes, corn kernels, slices of red onion in a herb sauce that included papola, herbs Santa, and tarragon.  The use of tarragon was not traditional to the Mexican dish, but fit the dish well and was picked fresh from the Center’s garden, as were some of the chopped greens. The dish did not have any chili in it, so again an adaptation for this special menu.

The other and best dish was beef shanks slow braised in a green mole tomatillo sauce cooked with red bell peppers. The sauce was thick, not very picante, and rich and coated the meat and the ½ of a baked potato that was served in the dish.  I sucked the marrow out of the crosscut shank and licked the sauce off my fingers.

The grilled bread was so delicious that we asked to take the remaining pieces home and we bought another fresh mini baguette for $2.50.

I drank lemonade and Suzette drank Negra Modelo.

Bon Appetit