This morning I made oatmeal for the first time to go into the kitchen and cook.
Then we received a call from Steven, the contractor for the remodel of the property next door. He told us water was running out of our building. We got dressed and went over and found the burst pipe, which was an external plastic pipe installed by the prior tenants. Suzette and Steven stopped the leak by clamping off the leak with wire and we called the City to request a shut off of the water. While we waited for the City truck to come Suzette walked across the street to Little Anita’s restaurant and brought back a Calabacitas and egg filled burrito, a coffee for her, and a hot tea for me. We sat in the Highlander and ate the burrito and sipped coffee and tea for a while. I was amazed by how flavorful the Calabacitas were. They were cooked in a thickened vegetable broth and the tortilla was soft, as if freshly made.
After we finished eating the burrito we decided to go to shop for groceries at El Super. It was full of Sunday shoppers, but we were able to maneuver through the crowds and producer-stockers. Suzette bought papayas, pineapples, spaghetti squashes, and red onions for the Center. For our house, we bought a small papaya, avocados, red onions, a Napa cabbage, cilantro, crema, chicken thighs, fresh garbanzo beans, two bags of chips, several types of Chile, tomatoes, a spaghetti squash, and eggs.
We got home at 1:45, just in time to see the Dallas Cowboys win.
Willy and Suzette went back to the Candy store to drain the water lines and put antifreeze into the toilet.
At 3:30 I decided to try Jill’s beef pate. I sliced a 2 inch piece of baguette in half and toasted both halves and smeared them with butter and then some pate. It was delicious, heavy, beefy and yet pink in the middle. I loved it.
At around 5:00 we started cooking. We shelled the garbanzos, which were very young, so many held only a small green garbanzo bean. Suzette also found the snow peas I had bought at El Super several weeks ago so she decided to sauté them with the fresh garbanzo beans.
Suzette also made Bobby Flay chicken. She dusted the six chicken thighs in a mixture of ground Paprika, fennel, salt and oregano. Then she sautéed the thighs in olive oil weighted down by a water filled skillet for fifteen minutes turning once. The she transferred a 350 degree oven where the thighs are cooked 30 minutes (this prep is what we refer to as the Bobby Flay method of cooking). We like this method because sautéing the herb encrusted thighs produces a crisp flavorful surface on the thighs.
Fresh garbanzo beans are a new taste treat we have discovered. They taste like cooked dried garbanzo beans, while at the same time tasting like a fresh green pea. This was really a fresh warm green pea salad and very nutritious.q
I poured glasses of La Granja white blend of viura and Verdejo grapes (Trader Joe’s for $5.99).
The dinner was lovely, light clean food that my body willingly accepted.
After dinner we watched “Good Morning Vietnam” until 8:30, when we went to bed.
Bon Appetit
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