June 29, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Almond Croissant. Snack - Cheese Cake Dinner - Snails and Casarecce Pasta with herb pesto
What an odd day of food. I woke with vigor to ride and ate a pain au chocolate with a latte macchiato with collagen. The I rode my new recumbent bike around the neighborhood. I was even able to pull myself out of the seat using Suzette’s car door handle and the increased strength in my legs.
Then I worked at my desk for a few minutes and then showered and dressed.
I paid a few bills and signed up for a water law seminar and then at 11:00 started watched the Brazil v. Japan. Japan scored first and Brazil equalized in the 56th minute and won with a last minute goal in the 95th minute to advance. During the match I heated and ate a Le Quiche almond croissant.
The next match between Germany and Paraguay was even more dramatic. Paraguay won on penalty kicks after a hard fought 120 minutes to claim one of the greatest and most unpredictable victories of this year’s World Cup.
At 3:00 I was hungry and ate the last piece of Susan’s cheese cake.
Then at 4:15 Suzette said she was hungry and we started preparing dinner. We went to the garden and picked parsley, sorrel, and basil for Suzette’s herb pesto. We drained the 30 snails and I made the snail butter while Suzette boiled Casarecce pasta and made the pesto with three herbs plus pinon nuts and Parmesan cheese in the blender.
We opened a bottle of Kirkland New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc that was lovely with the snails and Suzette toasted four round slices of baguette for dipping in the snail butter.
I followed Julia Child’s Snail butter recipe on page 103 of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, combining 2 T. of shallot with three cloves of garlic mashed, two T. of minced parsley, 1/2 cup of butter abd salt and pepper.
I sautéed the ingredients without the salt and pepper in a skillet and added 10 T. of butter to make a warm sauce instead of the recipe for a compound butter. We also tossed the snails in the sauce and served them in snail pans and served the pasta in a separate plate. But in practice we ate the snails with the pasta with bread dipped in the garlicky butter and parsley sauce
It was a fabulous dinner even tough I had eaten my dessert an hour earlier.
After dinner Willy, Max, and Suzette moved furniture from his old apartment at 524 Romero to his new apartment and back to our house.
I was stuffed and tired, so I lay in bed to blog this entry and watch Morocco against The Netherlands in World Cup competition.
Bon Appetit
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