February 11, 2018 Lunch – Nate’s Dinner – Hutchins’ BBQ, zucchini salad, fennel and celery salad, roasted sweet potatoes, baked beans

February 11, 2018 Lunch – Nate’s   Dinner – Hutchins’ BBQ, zucchini salad, fennel and celery salad, roasted sweet potatoes, baked beans

I woke up at 8:15 just in time to see Meet the Press and eat another NY bagel with garlic and herb cream cheese, Lax, red onion, and red tomato slices with a cup of Earl Grey tea.

Then a little before 11:00 we drove up Dallas North Parkway to pick up
the 10 lb. of ribs and three lb. of pulled pork at Hutchins’,  I was amazed when we arrived to see Hutchins’ parking lot nearly full and lots of folks eating in the restaurant.  We put the 13 lb. of BBQ into the trunk and dove back south to IKEA.

I went to the cafeteria and ate a marzipan covered round of white cake covered with a thin smear of raspberry preserves and a mound of whipped cream with a cup of tea with half and half.

 When Suzette finished shopping upstairs she came to fetch me and we went downstairs.  She bought a lamp, bug netting, and napkins.  Then down stairs we bought tea towels and I bought a jar of herring, a pack of knaekebrod, two chocolate bars and four boxes of my favorite dessert, a marzipan covered rum ganache.

We drove back to Billy’s and dropped off the BBQ.  Suzette had a hankering for oysters and Billy recommended Nate’s on Midway at Pipeline Rd. North of LBJ, so we drove there.  Nate’s was packed.  We ordered a dozen fried oysters with a blood6 Mary for Suzette and a Marti Gras beer for me.  Everyone was eating large platters of crawfish so we ordered 1 lb. with regular seasoning.  The other two choices were turbo and rinsed.  Next time we will get rinsed.  Regular has grains of chili on each crawfish, which I found too spicy.  We then ordered a dozen shucked oysters on the half shell, which were delicious with a cocktail sauce Suzette made with catsup, lemon juice, and grated horseradish.

By 4:00 we had eaten and were on our way back.

We took showers and dressed for dinner and travel and Suzette repacked the grips so we could carry all our IKEA purchases back to Albuquerque.

At 5:00 family started arriving; Susan and Charlie and their son , Phillip, and Daughter, Rachel, with her husband James and Elaine’s mom, Rita, and her brother, Jerry, and his wife, Mariam, plus Rebecca and Mickey.

Besides the BBQ, Rebecca had made a zucchini salad with capers.  Elaine made roasted sweet potatoes and a shaved fennel and celery salad. Billy heated some beans with bell peppers.

We ate to excess.

Then after dinner we ate some desserts.
Jerry brought a dish of brownies made with Sandy’s recipe  and we sliced a cinnamon cream cake Elaine’s friend Shawna brought us.

I poured small glasses of Eden ice cider from Vermont tha5 I had bought in Taos last weekend and Billy. Poured Bartlett’s Apple Brandy we had bought him in Massachusetts this last summer.

Everyone started leaving at 8:00 and we said goodbye and Billy drove us to Love Field at 8:40 for our 10:00 flight back to Albuquerque.

Bon Appetit