I had a full day so no time for a proper lunch. Lunch was a reheated slice of pizza and ½ of a meatball sandwich with a glass of water at a client’s office eaten during a telephone conference.
Breakfast was a bit better, a toasted piece of sourdough sandwich bread smeared with goat cheese and garnished with thin slices of onion and pieces of whitefish with a cup of green tea, actually a lovely breakfast.
Dinner was much better. Two days ago Suzette thawed out several unidentified frozen packages from the freezer. One of them was the remaining portion of a leg of lamb. I butchered it and it yielded about 1½ lb. of approximately ½ inch cubes of lamb.
Yesterday I shopped at El Super and bought 10 lb. of russet potatoes and about 4 lb. of yellow onions. I also fetched a bag of carrots from the garage. This evening when I returned home from meditation I cubed five potatoes that Suzette had washed clean, a yellow onion, 2 stalks of celery, I large cloves of garlic, and 4 carrots.
Suzette dusted the vegetables with flour and then sautéed the lamb and then the vegetables in oil. After the vegetables had cooked a bit she added 1 can of Guinness Stout and ½ bottle of Bohemia beer, returned the lamb to the large Le Creuset casserole and added about an equal amount of water and cooked the stew for about an hour. The flour and liquid thickened into a lovely sauce that absorbed some of the vegetable flavors changing from an assortment of vegetables and meat into a homogeneous stew.
At 11:30 a.m. I went to Trader Joe’s and bought a French baguette for $1.99 today. Suzette sliced about a six inch piece from it and toasted it and we spread butter on the bread and ate bread with the stew.
I opened the bottle of 2017 OTWC (Oregon Trail Wine Company) red blend from the Willamette Valley, which appears to be 100% Pinot Noir. It is described as a very popular wine with ratings of 88 points, 4.5 stars out of five stars, and a vinvivo rating of 3.9. This was my first time to drink OTWC red blend and I found it to have a very fruity and aromatic bouquet and a pleasant flavor. Bill and Regina Turner gave us this wine at Christmas. The internet says its average price seems to be $17.00. I can see why people like this wine. It has many of the characteristics of high priced Willamette Valley Pinot noirs, such as a range of cherry and plum notes at a fraction of the price.
We watched a bit of the impeachment and them PBS Masterpiece British mysteries until 10:30 and the went bed.
Bon Appetit
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