Ai started with a bowl of granola, milk, blueberries, and yogurt.
At noon I met Jay lunch at Safari Grille at 3001 Central. I was amazed to find out it was owned by my friend who is a member of the Ismailia community who moved here from Dar es Salaam and who manages the Taj Mahal restaurant in the evenings. That is why the menu has both African and Indian dishes on it.
The menu is extensive with lots of interesting items and many sauces with varying degrees of spicy up to inferno.
I ordered a bowl with a housemade beef and lamb sausage with rice pilaf and safari sauce with house slaw from the build it yourself lunch menu. Jay ordered the chicken tikka sandwich from the long list of sandwiches on the menu.
The rice pilaf was rice fried with a bit of onion dusted with a bit of turmeric. Not terribly exciting texturally but quite flavorful. The four or five sausages served on the rice were lovely. Fresh, pink in the middle and flavorfully grilled. The slaw was served as part of the bowl and I ordered a cool cucumber sauce that I dumped into the bowl to cook the slightly spicy Safari sauce down a bit. I found it an interesting dish, but not anything I could not replicate at home and not better than the dinner we were yet to eat today.
Jay liked his chicken tikka sandwich served with fried potatoes dusted with a medley of spices.
After lunch I drove to Costco to pick up a prescription and also bought a 2.5 lb. bag of spinach so we can make Willy’s favorite Catalan Spinach dish for dinner with the roasted pork tapa. I also bought a 94 point rated Spanish red named La Gitana for $11.99.
Costco specializes in good bottles of wine for moderate prices.
After Costco I worked until 5:00 filing two pleadings after I found out that my client’s Order Granting a Supersedeas bond was granted.
This was the first supersedeas bond I have ever sought for a client and it was great getting it issued. The supersedeas bond will allow him to continue to pump water to irrigate his crops while his appeal is pending.
I then went to the garden and picked another ½ shopping bag full of basil and plucked tarragon leaves from their stalks until Suzette arrived at 6:15. We then drove to the Thirsty Eye Brewery for Jim Burbank’s poetry reading. I was really impressed with his stage presence and animated delivery of his poems including his repartee with the audience as they commented on his poetry. We drank a beer abandoned when he finished at 7:00 left and came home. Suzette had worked 12 hours and did not feel like cooking so we decided to heat up the PPI Vietnamese Miso Noodle Soup with clams and smoked pork I made yesterday.
Willy came by and he and Suzette measured him and ordered the sports jacket and pants he will wear at Drew’s Wedding in Portland, Maine at the end of the month. I heated the last of the French Onion Soup and toasted a slice of whole wheat bread to make a crouton and sliced Jarlsberg cheese to melt on the bread to make a classic presentation of a bowl of French Onion Soup. He ate it heartily and then went home.
We watched the news until 9:20 and then half of an interesting nature show on PBS about animals that commute to or from urban centers around the world, like a Monitor water lizards that get to be 110 pounds that live in the sewers of Jakarta that commute to a pond in the zoo to be fed lunch from the scraps of the zoo restaurant or Mallard ducks that winter in ponds in Calgary heated by co-generated water that fly to the farms outside Calgary to glean the fields of grain daily, and finally hippos that live in the river near St. Lucia in South Africa that walk into town at night to eat the green grass of lawns and sleep and return to the river in the morning. An interesting show demonstrating how animals have adapted to their changing habitat as the habitats have become populated by humans.
I told Willy we could make the roasted pork tapa and Catalan Spinach dish tomorrow night and then he left at 9:00..
We then ate bowls of ice cream during the nature program and went to bed at 10:00.
Bon Appetit
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