December 9, 2023 Brunch - Steak, Potatoes, and eggs. Dinner - Sashimi

December 9, 2023 Brunch - Steak, Potatoes, and eggs. Dinner - Sashimi

I got up at 8:00 in time to watch Liverpool beat Crystal Palace to go into first place in the PL.

Then at 10:30 I watched Aston Villa beat Arsenal to go into first place in the PL jumping over Liverpool.

Suzette made breakfast of fried steak, potatoes, and sunny side up eggs.

I drank orange juice with my ugly but delicious egg dish with pieces of toasted baguette spread with butter and orange marmalade..

Then we went through the tax records that had been stored in the bedroom and threw out three large garbage bags of old records.

We drove to see the Agnes Pelton and Raymond Jonson exhibit at the UNM Art Museum at 2:45. It was fabulous with four amazing deeply spiritual paintings by Pelton that are in the collection.  UNM has one of the best Transcendental Painting Group collections in the world, thanks to Raymond Jonson.

We then drove to Smiths to shop for groceries.  We bought strawberries, a cucumber, dill, two salmon filets, 12 oz. of sea scallops, an Aji tuna steak, a La Brea baguette and a ciabatta loaf on sale, a chunk of Murray’s cheddar, a discounted Affinois round, and a cheese ball, milk, a rump roast on sale, a lb. of large shrimp, shallots, and vanilla and spumoni ice cream.

We decided to eat sashimi for dinner and make Gravad lax and eat salmon for dinner tomorrow and scampi on Monday evening.

After we returned home and unpacked.i made sushi rice with 1/2 tsp. of dehydrated dashi, 1 T. of mirin, 2 T. each of sugar and rice wine vinegar to two cups of water and 1 cup of jasmine rice.steamed for thirty minutes on low heat.

Suzette worked with me and the prep went much more quickly and easily.

We rinsed off and patted dry the two salmon filets and I then cut off the tail section o& each for sashimi, the front was cut to the shape of the Pyrex baking dish we use for Gravad Lax and the remainder of each fillet was bagged and refrigerated for dinner Monday.

While the sushi rice was cooking I sliced and filled a large plate with the two salmon tails, 1/2 of the tuna steak, three radishes Suzette had cleaned, 1/3 of a peeled and seeded cucumber, two scallops, and a small avocado, suzette filled a small pitcher with saki and heated it in a pot filled with water and poured soy into a dipping bowl and added a generous drop of wasabi sauce and filled a dipping bowl with pickled ginger.

When the rice was ready and the plate filled we made Green tea and poured small tea bowls with warm saki and ate a delicious dinner.

We had a couple of crackers spread with cheese ball during prep also.

After dinner I lay down to rest while Suzette watched home decorating shows until 8:30.

Then at 9:00 we drank egg nog and watched Saturday Night Live until 10:15 when we made Gravad lax with 1 cup of salt, 3/4 cup of sugar,, and 1 tsp of Malabar black pepper and the two packages of dill. We coated the salmon with the mixture and put dill on the top and bottom and between the salmon fillets that were laid in the Pyrex dish and covered with Saran and weighed with a brick and put in the fridge.

Suzette went to bed and I watched the last of SNL and went to bed to blog and read until 11:00.

Bon Appetit