May 6, 2023 Breakfast - Bagels with cream cheese, lax, red onion slices, and capers Lunch - Willy’s BD at Santa Cafe. Dinner - Chicken, beech mushrooms, green beans, cashew nuts, and zucchini Stir Fry with rice.
I sliced lax, red onion, and two Roma tomatoes for breakfast.
Billy and Elaine went to the Farmers’ Market and Mickey and Rebecca had orange juice and then drove to the Farmers’ Market.
Our plan was to all meet at the Folk Art Flea Market at the rodeo grounds in Santa Fe at 10:00.
At 8:30 Suzette and I drove to Santa Fe to the rodeo grounds where the Folk Art Flea Market was held. We waited in line from 9:30 until 10:00 when the gate for nonmembers was opened. Everything except jewelry was in the big building, so everyone went there. Suzette and I found amazing stuff, mostly textiles, two or three table clothes, purses, two baskets, a whisk broom, a bamboo tea stirred for the green tea ceremony, an alpaca wool poncho from Chile, an Italian glass candy ornament. Many of the items will be sold bySuzette at the spa. I bought a New Guinea shell money necklace and we bought ceramic chargers in the special item room.
Mickey and Rebecca arrived around 10:45 and Billy and Elaine about 11:00. They did not buy anything except Mickey bought a zippo lighter in the jewelry section.
At 12:15 we paid and left for Santa Cafe. We were the first to arrive, but soon Amy joined us and then Willy, Elaine and Billy, Mickey and Rebecca, and Vahl, the whole extended family, except for Luke were gathered around a long table on the patio in Santa cafe.
We ordered drinks and appetizers: spring rolls, pork dumplings and fried Calamari with Ponzu sauce.
Then for entrees, four of us ordered Sautéed Branzino with zucchini pasta. Three ordered chicken enchiladas, and Suzette and I ordered mussels with chorizo.
I also ordered a bottle of 2021 Calcite Pouilly Fume, made with Sauvignon Blanc grapes on property near Sancerre. It was more acidic than most Sancerres, which made it less drinkable alone but a good match for food.
The mussels were huge, served in a large bowl with the reddened cooking medium dotted with semi-circles of chorizo at the bottom and two slices of Parmesan encrusted toasted baguette on top.
The Branzino was a single filet sautéed and resting on a pile of long strands of Zucchini resembling pasta. The chicken enchiladas were reported to be excellent.
After lunch Willy went to Amy and Vahl’s and we drove to Owings’ Gallery on Marcy, but it was closed so we walked to his other gallery on Palace near the Plaza. It had a good Fremont Ellis for $95,000 and several Couses for more.
We then split up. BIlly and Elaine went to Amy and Vahl’s and we drove Mickey and Rebecca to Zaplin Lampert on Canyon Road. Richard Lampert was there and showed us around. Soon I saw a Howard Schleeter 1942 watercolor of a group of adobes painted in a mixed modernist and cubist style with bending walls and shafts of white that referred to rain. I loved it at first sight and bargained from the asking price of $9500 less vigorously than I could have because I did not want to seem brutal in front of Rebecca and Mickey and bought it for $8,000 plus tax of $665.
Everyone agreed it was in an awful frame.
Richard bagged it in plastic, gave us a book, and I gave him a check, and we took it home with us
We drove Mickey and Rebecca back to the square and then drove to Stephen’s Consignment. We did not see anything at Stephen’s, so drove back home after a huge day of shopping.
The flea market was a huge success. The best item I picked was an elegant man’s poncho in wool for $14.
Suzette liked the group of woven handbags she can sell at her spa.
I have a little remorse that I did not bargain harder for the Schleeter but I only would have saved $500 since I made the first bid of $7,500 and went to $8,000.
We rested and then later I made a stir fry with the meat of a chicken thigh diced, a zucchini diced, a handful of green beans, 2 oz. of red onion, and two oz. of white beech mushrooms and cooked a pot of rice.
Suzette made the lovely sauce from the Garlic Eggplant dish in the Art of Chinese Cooking and we had a simple but tasty dinner.
Suzette went to bed at 10:30 after Death in Paradise.
I tried to stay up to watch Sybil but fell asleep in the chair and went to bed at 11;30.
What a great day of food and family, and I love the Schleeter.
Bon Appetit
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