June 10, 2017 Lunch – Pupuseria. Dinner – Sautéed Blood Sausage, Refried Black Beans, and sautéed Chard and Onion with Lavender

June 10, 2017 Lunch – Pupuseria. Dinner – Sautéed Blood Sausage, Refried Black Beans, and sautéed Chard and Onion with Lavender

We rode to Rio Bravo.  I forgot to eat something before we rode and got weak, so when we returned Suzette made us fried eggs with cottage fries and I toasted ½ bagel and seared it with cream cheese and garnished it with slices of onion and Lax.  We ate our breakfast in the garden watching our new fish swim in the pond we added new plants and a fountain to recently.  Suzette added dirt to a pot holding a water lily that had fallen off its brick pedestal and righted the new flowering plant that had fallen off its pedestal.  The pond is about four feet deep, so we place concrete bricks on the bottom of the pond so the plants will sit closer to the surface of the water.

I went back to bed after breakfast for an hour’s nap.

At 12:30 we decided to go visit the new Sheehan Winery in the south Valley.  I called to get directions and found out it was just north of Five Points, so I suggested we eat lunch at Pupuseria.  Pupuseria is a Salvadoran restaurant located at the corner of Goff and Bridge.  It specializes in pupusas, which are cornmeal pancakes encasing some ingredients.  Today I chose a spinach and cheese pupusa and a mustard green pupusa and a mixed juice of orange and carrot.  Suzette chose a pineapple and orange juice. A tall stein of juice costs three dollars and a pupusa costs two dollars and fifty cents.  We loved the meal because it was fresh healthy food.

We then went to Sheehan Winery located in a garage behind a house on Cerro Vista Rd. Today there was a crowd of people standing almost shoulder to shoulder because the winery website  http://sheehanwinery.com/#about-sheehan-winery
Had an announcement that there would be a tasting at 2:00 p.m. The State wine competition awards were being announced today and Sheehan was winning several as we tasted their wine  Sean Sheehan and his wife Crystal own the winery and currently make the wine.  Sean said he was wine maker for a Casa Rodena Winery for ten years and waited tables at Seasons restaurant before opening his winery in 2015.  The wines are not cheap, but they are good to excellent.  Suzette six bottles of the Corrales Merlot that won the Merlot gold medal in this year’s state competition and six bottles of Chardonnay that impressed us also that had yet to be judged.  The merlot was $35.00 per bottle and the Chardonnay was $27.00 per bottle, but there are free bottles one buys six or 12 bottles that amounted to about a 25% discount.  The cost for six bottles of Chardonnay and six bottles of Merlot was $297.00.

We took our wine home and then went to Costco a little before 3:00.

We bought asparagus and mushrooms plus a Dungeness crab and fresh halibut and a few other items and I picked up some prescriptions.

We were home by 4:30.

We had decided to the morcilla I had bought at El Super last Wednesday with the PPI refried black beans and some chard from our garden sautéed with onion and lavender.  The lavender is in full bloom and lovely now.

Suzette picked a basket of chard and cut a few sprigs of lavender while sliced a medium onion into thin slices.  When Suzette returned I  plucked the flowers from four sprigs of lavender and destemmed a few leaves of chard that Suzette was destemming.

I cleaned and sliced the blood sausage and a Suzette sautéed the onion in one skillet and the sausage in the other.  When the onions caramelized Suzette added the chard and lavender and sautéed the vegetables in one skillet.  She removed the blood sausage and placed the black beans in the other skillet to heat the beans.  When the beans were heated and the chard cooked Suzette reheated the blood sausage in the microwave and plated our dishes by laying the rounds of sautéed blood sausage on a pile of black beans. I cleaned and thinly sliced a four or five inch long slab of Oaxaca cheese and we garnished the beans and chard with cheese.  Suzette fetched two Modelo Especial beers from the garage and we took our plates to the garden and ate our dinner under the gazebo.

Suzette commented that this was an exceedingly high protein dinner; that the beans and sausage and cheese all were good sources of protein, which I needed to replenish my muscles that had been over tasked in the morning.

After dinner we watched Bill Maher’s apology show of June 9, 2017.

Suzette then watched a movie and I worked on my taxes.

We then read and went to bed.

Bon Appetit