I had a cocoa coffee for breakfast.
At 11:00 Luke arrived on the train from L.A.. I drove us home and he left for a yoga class and I made a salmon Cesar salad made with a tomato, 1/3 of a cucumber seeded and sliced, 3 oz. of salmon, four anchovies, and three green onions sliced thinly and toasted two slices of whole wheat bread with one smeared with cod fish roe and the other with three pieces of Summer Swedish Herring bought at IKEA in Dallas two weeks ago.
This morning I butchered the leg of lamb and then diced the eggplant, a large onion, a head of garlic, two tomatoes, and 2/3 of a large green bell pepper. Suzette sautéed the lamb and vegetables and then put them into a crock pot with sumac and Middle East spices with ½ of water. We cooked the crock pot for the entire day.
Here is the Internet address for recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/69286/eggplant-and-lamb-stew/
When I returned from my ten mile bike ride at 5:15 Suzette had arrived. We decided to make mashed potatoes and parsnips. I diced four Yukon gold potatoes and two parsnips and put them into the large casserole with water and boiled them until tender.
Luke returned at 6:30 and Willy soon after. Suzette finished whipping the potatoes and parsnips with butter and half and half and we each served ourselves. Then in a few minutes we added spinach and reheated the stew and potatoes.
I poured out the rest of the open Monte Bueno 2014 Rioja red Crianza and we ate dinner.
After dinner Luke made nettle tea and served several desserts made by his juice bar in LA. One was an orange, strawberry and geranium, cookie and the other a hazelnut trail mix with herbs and cacao.
Bon Appetit
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