November 30, 2023 Lunch - East Ocean. Dinner - Grilled Lamb Chops with Asparagus, tomato, onion, and spinach Couscous With Tzatziki

November 30, 2023 Lunch - East Ocean. Dinner - Grilled Lamb Chops with Asparagus, tomato, onion, and spinach Couscous With Tzatziki

I ate granola with milk, yogurt, and tropical fruit salad for breakfast.

Then Suzette called at 11:30 to suggest we go to lunch at East Ocean.

I agreed heartily and she picked me up a bit after noon and drove us to East Ocean.

We studied the menu carefully and settled the two entree combination dinner for two persons with full dinner portions of cashew chicken and shrimp with lobster sauce plus two bowls of egg drop soup, two egg rolls, two sweet bean paste filled fried balls, and two fried wontons plus a bowl of fried rice for $15.99 each. We also ordered hot tea.

Soon the tea and two bowls of egg drop soup were served with a bowl of chow mein noodles. We put a spoonful of noodles in each bowl of soup and enjoyed the egg drop soup that is made with thickened chicken broth.

Then the cashew chicken, shrimp in lobster sauce and rice.  I love shrimp in lobster sauce.  It has lots of ground pork, chopped green onion, and shrimp in a cornstarch thickened chicken broth that was more viscous than the egg drop soup broth.  I mix the rice with the lobster sauce so it becomes thickened into a gelatinous mass of sauced rice.

The cashew chicken was great also cornstarch laced slices of white chicken in a pile of vegetables including, celery, baby corn, bok Choy, onion, carrot, and mushrooms.

We enjoyed our meal and filled three containers with leftovers.  Enough for another wonderful meal.

We then drove to Restore It so Suzette could look for a mantle.  She did not see one so we drove on to Weems Gallery to pick up the Juanne Quick to See Smith pastel that Ari had cleaned.

We then drove home.

When we arrived I grabbed the letter from the Register of Wills of Philadelphia and drove to the post office and bought a postal money order for the fee.

I then went home and started watching the news by Ari Melber on the Beat.

Willy called and we decided he would grill the dozen lamb chops we bought at Costco several days ago.

I diced four asparagus, a tomato, a sliced of onion, and de-steamed a handful of .

When Willy arrived he turned on the grill and I started cooking the .

I melted about three T. of butter in a sauce pan and sautéed the diced onion and .  I then added the diced tomato and a cup of couscous. After another minute or two of stirring at medium heat I added 1 1/2 cups of boiling water and the spinach and covered the sauce pan and cooked the couscous at medium heat.  I them moved the sauce pan to the smallest burner and reduced the heat and cooked the couscous for a couple more minutes and then turned off the heat.

Suzette found 1/8 of a cucumber in the fridge, so I made tzatziki.  I diced the cucumber and a slice of red onion and sprinkled them with salt.  I then added about 2/3 cup of yogurt and a heaping T. of labni and pressed a clove of garlic into the mix.  Willy then went to the garden and picked five of six stalks of fresh mint.  We de-stemmed the leaves from three or four stalks of mint.

When the lamb was cooked Willy brought it in and Suzette covered it with aluminum foil to keep it warm and  while I finished the tzatziki.

Suzette picked and opened a bottle of Primativo from Puglia, Italy.  The thicker red wine was lowly with the lamb as it opened up.

Suzette spooned a pile of couscous onto plates and then added lamb chops.  Suzette also cleaned several radishes.

We had a great dinner as we watched Dallas beat Seattle.

After the game Willy left and Suzette went to bed.

I stayed up to watch the news until midnight and learned the pause for hostage releases ended today when Hamas failed to submit a list of hostages to released.  

This was the first day we cooked a fresh dinner since Thanksgiving.

Suzette discussed eating the leftover Chinese food with added oysters to the lobster sauce, which sounded good to me.

Bon Appetit