I made a salad for lunch and then went to El Super to do some grocery shopping. I saw and bought four fresh Ataulfo mangoes and then decided to buy a pineapple, and a papaya for fruit salad. I also bought some queso fresco, pears, sweet potatoes, eggs, 6 small avocados, some ginger root, a few limes, a bunch of green onions, some yellow and zucchini squash, Padilla chilis, and 8 chicken thighs.
At 5:00 we went to Gruet to meet folks for drinks but when they could not make it we went home and decided to make the Bobby Flay recipe for sautéing chicken rubbed with ground cumin and paprika in a pan weighed down with a smaller pan filled with water and served with a mint sauce. I went to the garden and picked fresh mint and chopped 1 cup of fresh mint and then about 2 oz. of fresh Padilla chili and Suzette made the mint sauce in the cuisinart.
We heated the PPI ratatouille and ate some with the crisp chicken.
This is one of my favorite ways to eat chicken and I ate three pieces.
Suzette suggested a light red, so I went to the basement and found a 2004 Marques de Caceres Crianza from Rioja. When we opened it, it was drinkable but it had a slightly odd flavor like it had been aged too long ad the cork was almost dried out and we had to push it into the bottle, so we had to decant it through a strainer to remove the small pieces of cork.
I ate a couple of pieces of chocolate after dinner with the last glass of wine.
Bon Appetit
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