January 18, 2024 Breakfast - Mushroom and Brie Omelette Lunch - Leftover Crazy Fish Chirashi. Dinner - Le Troquet

January 18, 2024 Breakfast - Mushroom and Brie Omelette Lunch - Leftover Crazy Fish Chirashi. Dinner - Le Troquet

Today was a first rate day of food. I made a wonderful breakfast omelet.

I minced garlic and 1/2 shallot and sliced four mushrooms and sautéed them in butter and good Spanish olive oil.  I then whisked and added three salted and peppered eggs mixed with 2 T. of parsley and as that cooked to deep golden brown I added slices of brie and after a few minutes, two green onions sliced into thin ringlets and then flipped the side uncovered by cheese onto the cheesed side and turned off the heat.

In 2 or 3 moments after the center had thickened a bit I cut the omelet in half and served it.

It was one of the best mushroom and cheese omelets I have ever eaten. Suzette drank coffee and I drank orange juice and spread French cherry preserves on a piece of baguette.

I worked on identifying wineries in Argentina in the morning.

I sent the winery information to Billy and Elaine and then fetched the leftover 1/2 of my Thursday chirashi lunch.

I heated the sushi rice and put into rice bowls and put the pickled ginger into a bowl and filled a dipping bowl with soy and a bit of the creamed wasabi that I had put into the container I keep in the fridge.

I then lay each strip of salmon, octopus, Aji tuna, ultra white tuna, and albacore tuna plus the small piles of pickled squid and seaweed salad and daikon threads on a plate and cut each of the large strips into six cubes.

I made a cup of green tea and Suzette grabbed a Negra Modelo and joined me for lunch. Suzette ate 2 cubes of each fish and some squid salad and seaweed salad and I ate the rest and except for the rice toughening in the microwave the chirashi was just as fresh as last Thursday.

After lunch we tried to walk but the strong gusts of cold air forced us back home after one block.

I rode the bike a mile and then lay down to nap and read while Suzette watched HGTV until 5:00 when we dressed and drove to Popejoy for the Symphony.  The program was not to our liking because it included Rimsky Korsakov two act opera, and then Mozart’s Requiem with a full chorus.

We left in the middle of the Mozart Requiem and drove to Le Troquet restaurant at the corner of third and Gold.

When the Blaugrunds arrived at 8:00 we first discussed their recent trip to India with national geographic tours.

When the waiter arrived and asked what we wished to drink, I replied the bottle of Vouvray.

He responded that they were out of the Vouvray. I then asked to taste two of the roses when they were brought we tasted them, and they were strong tasting wines with lots of character that we did not believe were well suited to the sole that we wanted to order in cream sauce.

He then suggested a light 15% Chardonnay and 85% Sauvignon Blanc blend called Salvard Cheverny. He brought a bottle and opened it and poured a taste, and we all agreed that it was perfect for the light sole in cream sauce. It had an attractive elegance that we all enjoyed.

We decided for each couple to order an appetizer and each couple to share an order of sole in cream sauce.

Cliff and Nancy shared a Caesar Salad and Suzette and I shared six tender delicious escargot in a light olive oil and garlic sauce.

Then the sole came and each of us received a platter with one flour dusted sautéed sole fillet accompanied by a pile of dried rice, two slices of blanched carrot and a small pile of watery green beans. Perhaps that is inevitable when you are the last customer, as we were.

We all loved dinner and said goodnight as we ran to our cars through the windy cold gusts.

We arrived home in time to watch the opening skit for SNL satirizing MSNBC coverage of Trump’s tenure.

I dozed off after the opening and Dave Chappelle’s opening monologue at the end of which he exhorted Trump to do better this time.

Then after another couple of skits we went to bed at around 10:00.

What a pleasant day and what a perfect day of food.

We booked our airplane travel to Buenos Aires and Miami and back and flight to the Uguazu Falls today. So we are now committed and moving forward with our trip to Argentina.

Bon Appetit