December 8, 2017 Lunch – PPI Hamburger Helper with Squash and Steamed Spinach with Sesame seed sauce. Dinner – Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas, New Mexico

December 8, 2017  Lunch – PPI Hamburger Helper with Squash and Steamed Spinach with Sesame seed sauce. Dinner – Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas, New Mexico

The usual for breakfast.  I worked until noon.  Then I packed up a few things for our over night to Las Vegas.  When Suzette arrived at 1:00 she said she was hungry, so I made a quick lunch by heating the PPI hamburger and zucchini squash dish from the other evening’s meal plus I steamed a three quart sauce pan filled with fresh spinach, removed it to a bowl and sauced it with a few tablespoons of the PPI sesame seed sauce I made the other night.

We left a little after 1:30 and arrived in Las Vegas at 4:00 p.m.

We dove to the State Hospital for Suzette’s intake evaluation of a prospective client.

After the appointment at around 5:30 we drove to the El Fidel Hotel and checked in.  The hotel is an old 1923 hotel that has not been renovated. In other words, it is funky and little changed from  when it was fully operational.  To give you an idea, we asked if the restaurant was open and were told, “The restaurant closed two months ago”. We had the joy of carrying our bag up two flights of stairs to our room; no bell man in sight.  The good news was that the room was very quiet.  I didn’t hear a sound and assume there were no other guests on our floor, or, perhaps, in the entire hotel.  I saw none.We then drove to the town plaza and went to the Plaza Hotel.  There was lots more happening at the Plaza Hotel.  On one side of the lobby was a full bar with lots of TVs and folks drinking. On the other side of the lobby was the restaurant.  In front of the restaurant was a menu board with three specials.

 The lobby attendant said the restaurant had a good chef, which was enough of a recommendation for me.  We took seats at a table in the restaurant.  Soon a waitress came to take our order for drinks.  We both ordered glasses of wine,  Suzette drank a Sauvignon Blanc with the salmon special with a thyme Lemon sauce on a bed of diced and roasted butternut squash with onion and dried cranberries and a red onion, celery, Middle Eastern cucumber slices, and radish slaw for $22.00. I ordered a 12 oz. grilled Ribeye steak with pan fried blue and white fingerling potato wedges and calabacitas (diced zucchini squash, onion, green chili, and corn kernels) for $26.00.  I drank a glass of old vines Zinfandel.  We loved our meal.

  

We were tired so we returned to our room at 7:30 and after a glass of port and a Hershey chocolate nugget, went to bed.

Bon Appetit