September 6, 2021 Labor Day Lunch - Sushi. Dinner - Grilled Rib Steak, steamed Green Beans, and Boiled Potatoes Sautéed in butter and garnished with green onions and parsley
Today was a day of relaxation, although I walked 2/3 mile at 8:00 and then ate granola, milk, yogurt and blueberries for breakfast.
I read Travels with Charley and relaxed most of the day, except at 1:00 I made sushi with about 1/3 lb. of fresh salmon and four Peruvian scallops, plus several slices of lemon cucumber, and a small pile of pickled leeks, and the standard wasabi mixed with soy and pickled ginger. I made sushi rice by adding a few drops of Aji Mirin and rice vinegar to a bowl of PPI cooked rice and drank two cups of Chinese green tea.
Suzette had to go in to cover at 3:00 a.m. because her administrator was on vacation. When she returned at 1:00 she napped until 4:00. Then I lay down until 6:00 and watched the round of 16 tennis match at the U.S. Open.
Then we both watched the U.S. Open Tennis match between No.1 ranked Dojkovic and a 20 year old from Baylor named Brooksy who took the first set but then faded and lost in four sets; still a remarkable performance, while we flipped back and forth between tennis and Antiques Roadshow and made dinner.
Dinner -
Boiled and Sautéed Potatoes - Suzette had bought a 2 lb. bag of small creamer potatoes at Costco. We boiled about 1/2 lb. in water and then Suzette cut them in half and sautéed them in butter in a skillet. When their flat sides were brown she added four sliced green onion rounds and 1/4 cup of minced parsley to the potatoes.
Green Beans -
I snapped the remaining approximately 1/2 lb. of green beans and cut flowerets from the small remaining head of broccoli and put them in the steamer with water on the stove to steam.
The Steak -
The steak was a 1 inch rib steak graded standard, less than USDA Choice. Suzette Salted and peppered it and carefully grilled it to medium rare. It was a little chewy, but had a good flavor as if it was grass fed. Suzette thought it was a better steak than the first one we used for the fajita dish last week and I agreed with her. The flavor was so good that there was need for catsup or and condiments and delicious with the butter sautéed potatoes.
The Wine -
The star of the meal was the wine. I opened a bottle of 2010 Villa Mt. Eden Pinot Noir from the Sonoma Coast of Sonoma County that had been cellared for so long the bottle was encrusted with dust. I opened it and it had great depth but some acidity on the finish so I poured about half of it into two glasses to let it aerate and open up. Soon it tasted wonderful. I don’t recall where I bought it, but the label showed it was $10.99 on sale, so it was probably Jubilation and probably 7 or 8 years ago.
We both loved the wine. It made dinner very special and erased Suzette’s tiredness and despondency about having to go to work at 3:00 a.m.
AS Suzette says, “Good Food puts you in a good mood.”
That was surely the case tonight.
After dinner Suzette served us a dessert of a slice of raspberry pie with a scoop of mocha almond fudge ice cream and a sip of cognac as we watched the Antiques Roadshow.
After the roadshow at 9:00 we watched a Ken Burns production of the life of Jack Johnson, who was the heavy weight champion from around 1900 to around 1915. He and Mohamed Ali are considered two greatest heavy weight champions of all time and both had theirs problems with racism. Johnson because he liked White women and fast cars and Ali because he joined the Nation of Islam; but perhaps mostly because they were black and physically dominant, outspoken, and expressed a freedom that refused to accept the stereotype of a quiet Negro, as Joe Louis did.
Suzette went to bed at around 10:00 and I at 11:00 lay down to blog.
I was a lovely day with lots of good protein, so I felt fine for the rest of the day after I ate lunch and dinner.
Bon Appetit
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