I ate a bowl of granola, milk, mango yogurt and ½ mango diced at 7:30 and then walked a mile at steady pace for the first time. Bravo.
At 11:30 I made a soup with the PPI pork country style pork rib diced, seaweed, a heaping T. of red Miso, four leaves of Savoy cabbage sliced, about five oz. of soft tofu, two mushrooms sliced and two green onions sliced thinly, plus both rice sticks and soba noodles and dehydrated chicken stock. After everything had cooked for about thirty minutes I ate two bowls of soup garnished with hoisin sauce, cilantro, green onion slices and lime juice and added fresh mung bean sprouts; the most amazing food item I found at El Super last week.
I worked until 6:00 and then we drove to Penny and Armin Rembe’s house they built in Los Poblanos for dinner. They showed us around the house and when the other guests, Sam and Susan Keith, arrived we settled in the living room around a coffee table on which a platter of charcuterie prepared by Gabe, the chef at the restaurant, rested plus a basket of thinly sliced French bread and whole wheat crackers. The charcuterie was fabulous, rabbit liver pate with a blackberry coulis, thinly sliced Lanza ham, smoked trout, pickled tongue, and roasted pistachio nuts. Penny poured glasses of white wine and we talked and got to know each other. Armin told me that he had bought many of the older New Mexico pieces from a man named Tony Garcia who dealt in old Santeros and silver and would visit Pueblos to find items, such as the old Navajo silver bridle that was shown on the Antiques Roadshow several years ago. Penny made a small platter of dried apricots garnished with goat cheese creamed with lavender honey, very delicate and delicious.
Suzette and Penny retreated to the kitchen to do the final dinner prep.
The menu was simple but elegant, grilled thick New York strip steaks, sautéed mushrooms, baked peeled Poblano chiles stuffed with corn kernels and cheese, and a pot of beans.
A lovely salad of fresh baby greens and peas was placed beside each plate served in Penny’s mother’s beautiful cut glass crescent shaped salad bowls.
After dinner Penny served a lovely dessert combining a square from a thin sheet of a baked chocolate fudge caramel plus a scoop.of soft white vanilla ice cream. I opened the maraschino cherries we brought and dropped two or three on each dessert plate.
Around 9:30 we left after a lovely evening.
It turned out that Susan’s family was originally from Tyler, Texas and Penny was the Amarillo representative to a Rose parade in Tyler one year.
Bon Appetit
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