April 14, 2018 Breakfast – Scrambled Eggs with Mushrooms, Smoked Pork, and Green Onion. Lunch – Hamburgers.  Dinner- Chicken Salad Salad

I woke up around 7:00 and read two interesting books.  One, Georgia O’Keefe and Her Houses, at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu.  The other called Georgia O’Keefe Living Modern that was an exploration of her life through her clothes.  I learned lots about how Georgia O’Keefe lived her life.  For example, I learned the Gilpin photo I have was taken in 1953.

                          This is a picture from the 1953 Gilpin sitting, but not my image.

                   Here is my image, same smock, paint brushes and dried flowers on the window sill

We are in O’Keefe country.  She spent her first summer in New Mexico in 1929 in Taos.

When Suzette awakened I sliced two green onions, one smoked Pork cutlet, and four mushrooms for breakfast and then Suzette scrambled them with eggs.  We garnished the eggs with slices of avocado.

Then we drove into town.  Not much was happening.  We arrived st the Harwood just after 11:00 only to find out it did not open until 12:00.  We drove out to KTAO but there was no flea market, but we did stop at a new thrift store just south of CID’s Market.  Suzette found one of those three tiered platter arrangements used to serve sandwiches and biscuits for formal teas that she bought for $20.00.  I found a straw basket for pouring a bottle of wine that was so flimsy that the lady gave it to us.

We then drove to Taos Inn to look at some photos by Ronnie Steinbach and shared a Sam Adams Boston Lager.

It was after noon by the time we finished our beer so we returned to the Harwood and saw the Women Artists Show.  I did not care for many of them except for the large one woman show of recent works by Erin Currier called La Frontera.  Here are the pictures in her show.

These are Erin’s journals and sketch books. This a self portrait of her. 

Erin’s work typically contains painted faces with the rest of the torso, bodies, and background collages of paper, wrappers, and commercial stuff she finds in her travels or collects that relate to the subject of the picture

We then drove to Smith’s and shopped for food for lunch.  We bought ground Angus beef, potato chips, ice cream, a loaf of whole wheat bread, sliced Provolone cheese, and Earl Grey tea.

We then returned to the house and sautéed two 2/3 lb. hamburgers topped with melted slices of provolone cheese plus ¼ onion sliced and three sliced mushrooms sautéed with the meat served with slices of tomato and a handful of salad.  I sautéed a slice of whole wheat bread and made an open faced sandwich with an additional slice of cheese between the bread and meat plus the one on top. We drank beers.

After lunch I took a nap.  Then we watched a Hulu documentary about how Noma opened its Tokyo restaurant.  It was inspiring.  We took a break at sunset to walk up the road several blocks to enjoy the views and get some fresh air.  It was chilly.

When we returned we watched the rest of the Noma documentary which was very inspiring to really appreciate natural ingredients.

We then made our dinner; chicken salad salads with the chicken salad Suzette made the other day with several of the red dyed pickled eggs she had made and fresh salad she had picked from our garden on Friday.  I diced a tomato and sliced ½ of an avocado to garnish the salad along with a slice of provolone cheese.  I was really proud of how we grow and process lots of the ingredients we use in our dishes.

I added a bit of raspberry dressing to my salad but Suzette ate her salad plain.  I opened and poured us glasses of this year’s newly released Gruet Rose’ wine which is darker and richer in Pinot Noir flavor, perhaps because the vineyards are a year older.

We watched Saturday Night Live for a while and then went to bed.
Bon Appetit