March 16, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant and Hot chocolate. Lunch - mushroom, Gravlax, shallot, and Racalette cheese omelet Dinner - Roasted Qual in a brandy/port/green grape sauce with snow peas, red cabbage and chestnuts and rice.

March 16, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant and Hot chocolate. Lunch - mushroom, Gravlax, shallot, and Racalette cheese omelet  Dinner - Roasted Qual in a brandy/port/green grape sauce with snow peas, red cabbage and chestnuts and rice.

This was a good day with great gardening and two great meals.

Starting at 7:30 I watched Arsenal beat Chelsea and Fulham beat Tottenham while I ate a chocolate croissant and a cup of hot chocolate with a dash of rum, because I wanted to prepare for the yard work I knew was soon to come.

Then at 10:00 I went out to the yard and helped Suzette cover one side of one of the raised beds with plastic in which she planted with parsley, dill, lettuce and chard.

Then I dragged two bags of Miracle Grow soil to the back yard and we filled the planter with soil and planted potatoes.

At Noon we made brunch. Today we made a gravlax omelet with sliced mushrooms, a shallot, grated Racalette cheese, diced gravlax, and fresh dill. It was delicious and we split a Carlsberg and sipped the last sips of Aalborg Akquavit with it for a very Danish lunch.

After lunch I pruned the backyard roses and then at 3:30 watched the Players Golf Tournament until 5:20.

Dinner - At 6:00 we started cooking dinner. I found a recipe in the Gourmet Menu Cookbook for Quail in a brandy and port sauce with grapes. 

Here is the recipe:

It included Deglazing the skillet in which the quail were sautéed in butter with a cognac flambe’ that was very dramatic and then adding the grapes and port and roasting the quail in the oven for ten minutes.

Suzette heated the PPI red cabbage, bacon, and chestnuts and I heated PPI rice while Suzette was reducing the sauce.

The result was amazing. I opened a bottle of Argentinian 2022 Colome’ Malbec Reserve that got better the longer it sat in our glasses, a truly wonderful wine.

This was an incredible dinner.

We loved it.

Then we rewatched A Tourist’s Guide to Love on Netflix for the second time and liked it more.

We went to bed at 9:30, I to blog and Suzette to sleep.

Bon Appetit