September 28, 2019 Lunch -Vietnam 2000. Dinner – Steamed Clams with Asparagus and Pasta Primavera

September 28, 2019 Lunch -Vietnam 2000.  Dinner – Steamed Clams with Asparagus and Pasta Primavera

I awakened at 6:30 when Suzette was already up and getting ready to orchestrate a big wedding at the Center.

She left around 8:00 and at 9:00 I rode to Rio Bravo and back.

I watched a Soccer match and then TCU win its game against Kansas.  Willy came over and he drove us to Vietnam 2000 for lunch. We each ordered a No. 21.  He ordered a Dr.Pepper and I ordered a Vietnamese iced coffee.  We both ate most of our bowls of lettuce, cucumber strips, Mung bean sprouts, cilantro, oriental basil, topped with warm steamed rice vermicelli, and garnished with two fried egg rolls and a pile of grilled marinated pork.

After lunch we drove to Sprouts, where we purchased 1.3 lb. of Atlantic fresh Farm raised salmon, a lb. of sea scallops, blueberries, eggs, fresh turmeric root, and asparagus.

We then drove home and I gave Willy a cucumber and two lemons and said goodbye.  I lay down and watched TV until Suzette arrived around 6:00.

We rested until about 7:00 and then started dinner with glasses of the PPI Cotes de Provence.

 We decided to make it as simply as possible.

I went to the basement and found a bottle of 2005 Satis Pinot Grigio that I bought at Kokoman’s in 2011 for $12.99.  It turned out to be a very nice bottle of wine, rich in flavor, slightly oxidized,  bordering on sherry, but still full of character and very drinkable.

Suzette made a poaching medium of white wine, four cloves of pressed garlic, and water in an enamel casserole.  She then steamed the Manila clams in the covered casserole until they cooked and opened.  We shucked them and she heated the PPI bag of spaghetti from last night and I poured the wine and she lay a pile of clams in pasta bowls, covered the pile with Pasta, finally added more clams and asparagus and some of the poaching medium clam broth.  We had an excellent dinner.  Simply filling and rich in protein from the fresh clams.

I drank a mug of hot clam broth with dinner, one of my favorite drinks.We watched an episode of Death in Paradise and Suzette went to bed at 9:00.  I stayed up until 1:00.

We will have Dungeness crab for brunch tomorrow and salmon for dinner, most likely.

Bon Appetit