December 19, 2020 Fabulous Lunch – Sautéed Trout, and Fried Eegs. Dinner – PPI Pasta with Boeuf Bourguignon and Steamed Broccoli
I drank a cup of hot chocolate for breakfast and then got dressed and at 8:30 Suzette and ii went food shopping mainly for Cornish game hens. We wanted to go to Albertsons but found only 1 game hen there, but there were lots of other specials. We bought a ham for $.97lb. and an 18 lb. slab of rib steaks for $4.77/lb. plus green beans, ginger snap cookies for our Christmas dessert, yogurt, ice cream, a bottle of Los Alamos Malbec for a Willy, 12 pack of Shiner Bock Christmas beer for Suzette’s employee, and a fresh trout. We called Smiths and found that they had lots of game hens and that they were on sale for 2 for $7.00, so we went to the Smiths at San Pedro and Lomas. We also bought an avocado and grapes and tonic water, four game hens, and six bottles of Gruet champagne for $10.39 a bottle (a super special price).
When we returned home we decided to cook the trout with Cottage fries, and eggs. Suzette said that was one of her favorite meals. I was hard pressed to think of a wine but I had chilled a Gruet Gilbert 2012 grand Reserve, so we poured that and had one of the best lunches we have had in a long time.
The trout was so fresh that it had almost no fishy flavor so we could taste the full power and richness of the champagne that was still delicious after 8 years.
We walked at 4:00 and at 5:30 Suzette suggested that we eat two PPIs, the last of the Boeuf Bourguignon mixed with the last of the cassarecce pasta. It was a really delicious dish and we enjoyed the bottle of Rivero Tempranillo from Rioja with it that Suzette selected.
Suzette spent the afternoon making the pumpkin bombe for our Christmas with a ginger snap crust and a pumpkin cream filling.
There was a small ramekin of pumpkin cream left, so I ate it with a cup of tila tea and a small glass of my raspberry brandy after dinner.
Bon Appetit
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