May 31, 2016 Breakfast – Lax and Bagel, Lunch – Sushi Hana, Dinner – Shrimp Fried Rice

May 31, 2016 Breakfast – Lax and Bagel, Lunch – Sushi Hana,  Dinner – Shrimp Fried Rice 

I made a bagel with cream cheese, lax, onion, capers, and sliced tomato at 8:00 which was a good idea because I had a meeting that ran until 2:00.

Bill Turner held the meeting and we decided to go to lunch together at 2:00.  He wanted to go to Sushi Hana, which sounded good to me.  I was pleased when I saw one of the daily specials was a bento box with Sautéed mackerel for $7.95.  This one of the best lunch specials in Downtown.  You first are served a bowl of miso soup. Then you are served a bowl of salad with a fresh ginger salad dressing that is delicious.  Then the bento box is brought with four or five pieces of tempura, the Sautéed mackerel served on a bed of sautéed julienne vegetables, an inverted bowl shaped mound of rice, four pieces of California roll nigiri sushi, an egg roll, and a piece of watermelon for dessert, plus ginger and wasabi and dipping sauce for the tempura and plum sauce for the egg roll. A massive amount of well prepared tasty food.  Neither Bill nor I ate our rice.

We loved it.  I am ready to go back any time.  The owners apparently are Mongolian.

I got home after 3:00 and as I was dressing to go ride about 3:45 Suzette arrived and wanted to go to the new Canvas beer joint on Central.  

I took a shortened r40 minute ride to Candelaria and back, threw on clothes and we drove to Canvas at 3120 Central SE.  Willy said that he had drunk beers at their San Diego location, which eliminated them from consideration as a purveyor of beer for Suzette’s Field to Food meal on June 18 because they are not local.  Suzette and I split a red ale and Willy drank a pecan beer that had an overly buttery taste to me.  We each ordered a pulled pork or carnitas taco ($2.00 on Tuesday.  The beers were $3.00 all day Tuesday.

We then walked the one block to Birdland and talked to Jay and Paula, who is opening a new shop in the Lilly Barack Building, and Suzette got to see the Ultrahealth layout.

The big news today is that Willy got two job offers; one in Boulder and the other in Albuquerque.  He will probably take the job in Albuquerque because it is a full time job and because he can continue going to graduate school and help fashion Albuquerque into a more sustainable city, which has always wanted to do.

When we returned home at 6:00 I watched the news and started dinner.  Willy and Suzette went to look at a 2002 Jetta station wagon that was being offered for sale.

 We had decided on Shrimp Fried Rice to use the PPI rice from lunch and the 15 thawed shrimp in the fridge.  I also minced three cloves of garlic, about 1 ½ T. of fresh ginger, ½ onion, 2 zucchini, and 2 stalks of celery.  

When Willy and Suzette returned at 7:00 I started cooking.  I first made an egg pancake with 2 eggs whipped with 1 T. of  Aji Mirin, a dash of sweet soy, and a dash of sesame oil.  

I then stir fried the zucchini, onion, garlic, and ginger.  Then I added the shrimp mixed with some sesame sauce, 1 ½ tsp. of cornstarch and 1 T. of Aji Mirin, to make the shrimp white cooked, and 1 T. of Oyster Sauce and a dash of Chinese cooking wine and a dash of sweet soy to loosen up the dish.  I then added one bowl of PPI rice soaked with tamari soy sauce and broke it up and stirred it in until most of the grains of cooked rice had separated.  I covered the wok with the lid to let the whole dish steam and cook together for a couple of minutes.  Willy cut the egg pancake into 1 inch cubes and I added them to the mixture and stirred them in and covered and heated the dish for another minute or two and then served the dish.

I drank green tea with my dinner. Suzette had a hard ginger beer.  

We  watched MSNBC until 9:00 because we were enjoying Donald Trump getting tripped up in his lies so much and then went to bed.

We also cheered when Gary Johnson and William Weld, the new Libertarian Party’s candidates for President and Vice President, were interviewed by Lawrence O’Donnell.

Bon Appetit 

May 30, 2016 Breakfast – Lax and Bagel, Lunch – Willy’s Green Chile Black Bean Enchiladas, Dinner- Stir Fried Pesto Penne, steak, and Asparagus

May 30, 2016 Breakfast – Lax and Bagel, Lunch – Willy’s Green Chile Black Bean Enchiladas, Dinner- Stir Fried Pesto Penne, steak, and Asparagus 

I slept until 9:00 again this morning for a total of nine hours.  We drove to Will Phipps new house on Spruce to critique possible changes and then Suzette went to work.  

I made a lax and cream cheese with capers and sliced tomato open faced sandwiches. The Gravad lax is still delicious.  I hope the dill lasts a bit longer so I can make some more with dill grown in our garden.

At around 1:30 Willy got in the mood for Black Bean Green Chile Enchiladas like those made at Java Joe’s. So he heated up a can of black beans. I thawed out a frozen round of Queso Asadero and a freezer bag of blue corn tortillas and Willy put together a lovely vegetarian enchilada casserole with the addition of thyme, oregano, garlic, Garduno's Green Chile Sauce, and yellow onion that he baked in the oven.  I ate some of it and enjoyed it.

At 5:30 Suzette came home and Willy said he was hungry.  We discussed dinner and decided to make an quick one pot dinner of the PPI steak and Pesto Penne and some of the Asparagus Suzette had brought home.  I sliced five  slices of grilled rib eye into ¼ inch by 1 inch thick bite sized slices and Suzette sliced about five or six stalks of asparagus. 

Suzette stir fried the pasta, steak, and asparagus in the wok and in a couple of minutes dinner was ready.  The dish was super delicious, far better than last night’s meal, because everything was cooked together and shared their flavors.

I poured out the open bottle of Ullisie Italian Sangiovese that Suzette had brought home and grabbed the bottle of Cherry Blossom California Pinot Noir I bought at Trader Joe’s on Friday for $3.99.

The Sangiovese was a full bodied wine which was good and the pinot noir was a full bodied pinot, which was bad.  Let me explain.  Sangiovese usually is a light red and only through careful processing can it be made more bold.  Pinot noir is a delicate wine that expresses it elegance when handled carefully and grown in a single vineyard.  When mixed with other grape juices or aggregated with other Pinot Noir grapes, it takes on a heaviness and harshness that we find unpleasant.  

Later we ate ice cream for dessert and watched “Dave”. The great line from “Dave” that every one should think about is “you did not vote for me to take care of myself, but to take care of you.”

I finished reading the New Yorker article on the exposing of depositors in HSBC by Falciano and the massive tax evasion supported by The Swiss banking industry and went to bed.  

Bon Appetit

May 28, 2016 Farmers’ Market and the Philharmonic Memorial Day Weekend Zoo Concert

May 28, 2016 Farmers’ Market and the Philharmonic Memorial Day Weekend Zoo Concert

I talked to one of my water clients this morning so we did not start walking to the Farmers’ Market until 9:30.  It was crowded, but we made our way around it, stopping at Amayo Farms to buy an Orange Pimiento plant for $4.00.

Suzette left announcements for the June 18 Field to Food meal.  This tear it will feature Limitar  shrimp and Oyster mushrooms grown at the Center.

I bought a regular Croissant for Suzette and almond croissants for Willy and me.  When we arrive back home around 10:30 we heated  the croissants and made tea and coffee.  

Suzette wanted make BLT sandwiches for lunch and asked Willy and me if we wanted one and we said yes.  

After lunch Suzette wanted to go shopping for tomato plants for the Center, but I stayed at home to watch the EUFA Championship Finals played in Milan between cross town rivals Real Madrid and Madrid Atletico.  Willy went to watch the game with friends.   

I started cooking the clafoutis at around 3:00. I cut up apricots, Rainier Cherries I had bought at Sprouts yesterday for $4.98/lb., red cherries, and blueberries (Sprouts for $1.50 for 6 oz.).

Clafoutis is easy to make as those who are regular readers know.  You simply cut up four cups of cherries or a little over 1 lb..  I marinate fruit in cognac and Grand Marnier or Cointreau.  Then you scald three cups of milk or milk enriched with cream.  You the mix in a mixing bowl 10 T. each powdered sugar and flour and added ½ tsp. salt.  You make well in the center of the dry ingredients and add three eggs stirred and then the milk and then the marinated fruit. 

You butter a ceramic baking dish and pour the fruit batter into the baking dish and bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes. 

Suzette returned at around 4:00 and we took an hour nap.  

And then showered and dressed for the concert.  We put our clafoutis into a plastic pie container and drove to the zoo at 6:30.  When we arrived there was a long line but around 6:45 they started admitting folks.  We walked to the band shell and saw Nancy with baskets and blankets laid out so we laid our blanket next their blankets and added our clafoutis to the food.

John and Vivian Shumaker brought the most interesting dish, a Phyllo wrapped bunt cake shaped savory with Prosciutto and four kinds of cheeses, including Ricotta and Mozzarella.  The filling was crumbly,but delicious and the crust was baked to golden brown. A real stunner.  Nancy Blaugrund's entrée was chicken supremes cooked with olives and prunes. They were a little bit vinegary to my taste, but probably just fine to keep them from spoiling in the warm weather.  The other Nancy made a mixed salad with feta and Terry made a baked Bulgar wheat or rice dish.  All in all the food was excellent.  

After dinner we served the clafoutis with Costco cookies some one had brought.  I was not as proud of this one because it had too many types of fruit and was a bit loose and undercooked, due to either too much fruit or too much cognac and Couvoisier.

The musical program of standard Memorial Day favorites such as the Service themes and Sousa marches started at 8:00 and played until 10:30 with an intermission.  The highlight of the evening were the performances by the best young musicians in the string, piano and conducting categories.  The pianist was a 9th grader, who played a brilliant Schubert concert movement.  The violinist was a senior who will attend Oberlin, who played a Saint Saens violin concerto movement. The conductor winner was a senior who will be attending the San Francisco Conservatory who conducted the Prelude to Carmen,more commonly known as the Toreador’s Dance.

We enjoyed the slightly cool evening.  Suzette and I sat on the grass in modified warrior poses and felt better at the end of the evening after stretching our leg muscles.  

After the music ended we each took our PPI dishes and said goodnight.

We went home and fell asleep.

Bon Appetit

May 29, 2016 Breakfast – BLT Sandwiches, Lunch – Clam Chowder and Egg Salad Sandwich, Dinner Party with the Phipps

May 29, 2016 Breakfast – BLT Sandwiches, Lunch – Clam Chowder and Egg Salad Sandwich, Dinner Party with the Phipps

I slept until 9:00 which is highly unusual.  Suzette made BLT Sandwiches on Fano baguette slices and we watched the Indianapolis 500 as we ate our sandwiches.  After watching the re-broadcast of Fareek Zacharia’s GPS at 11:00 I wanted to ride, so I heated a can of Progreso Clam Chowder and added Amontillado Sherry and cream and to thin it and flavor it,  since we were out of milk.  It tasted delicious. I also spread some of the egg salad Suzette had made yesterday on a piece of toasted baguette and Suzette joined me and ate the rest of the egg salad as we watched the Colonial golf Tournament.  

I used to attend Colonial with my dad when I was growing up in Fort Worth.  Those were the glory days of Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus.  Colonial was always a big event in Fort Worth because it was one of the the four major golf tournaments in the U.S.  Colonial was a tough golf course to play because it was nestled next to the Trinity River and had lots of trees and long fairways which put a premium on straight tee shots, as it still does.

At around 1:45 I rode 8 miles to the end of the fields south toward Rio a Bravo, then showered and met Shahin at his office do complete my biling.  

I then drove to Spouts to buy milk and apples and returned home around 5:00.

We started cooking dinner.  Suzette had already made penne pasta with fresh pesto, which we planned to combine with a sauce combining fresh garlic and peas from our garden mans Sauteed mushrooms that Suzette had already prepared when I arrived home.  So many began prepping the garlic by finely mincing four T. of fresh garlic and ½ onion for the pasta dish.  We were also going to serve an adaptation of the Catalanian Fried Spinach tapa from Jose Andres’ Tapa Cookbook that combines sautéed chard, piñon nuts, raisins and apples.  So I then chopped two apples into ½ inch cubes, while Suzette went to the garden to pick more chard, which I then de-stemmed and sectioned into 1 ½ inch pieces.  

While I was prepping the main courses, Suzette was making the appetizers, which were melon balls of the remaining ½ of the Tuscan melon I bought on Friday and the Caprese Salad Skewers made by skewering a piece of chard wrapped around a Mozzarella ball and a grape tomato.

By 6:00 we were ready and shortly thereafter Jonathan and Gloria and Will and Maggie arrived.  I served Nessa Albariño and Negra Modelo beers and we carried the appetizers out to the bocce court with a bottle of Spanish Cava Rose’ Champagne.  I drank a gin and tonic.  Willy organized the bocce match and raked the court and we played two games.

We then came back inside to make dinner.  The guests stood on the landing to the cellar while we cooked on the stove.  I took those who wished to the cellar to fetch a bottle of Wellington Mohrhardt Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon from northern Sonoma for dinner.  I also served the last ½ bottle of Clear Creek Meritage from Napa.

We sautéed the onion and garlic, then added the peas and mushrooms and 1 cup of Albariño and ½ cup of water to create a sauce.  When that was cooked Suzette added it to the pasta.

We the sautéed the apples and the Suzette added the piñon nuts and chard and finally the raisins and stir fried the ingredients quickly in the wok.

Suzette was grilling the four USDA Choice rib eye steaks I had bought at Sprouts and a handful of the scapes we had picked from our garlic plants in the garden.   She brought the steaks in when they were cooked to medium rare and the scapes were slightly charred and we let them rest while we stir fried the Chard and Apple dish.

I then sliced the steaks and Suzette plated the pasta and Chard dish and we each selected our preferred pieces of steak and carried our plates to the table in the garden gazebo.  We poured wine and ate our lovely fresh meal as night descended.

We had enough PPI steak and pasta for another meal.

We did not serve dessert, although we mentioned ice cream and clafoutis.  No one seemed to want dessert. My he interest of the younger generation was directed toward seeing the latest episode of Game of a Thrones.

This was a highly nutritious meal with lots of fresh ingredients.  Maggie is a vegetarian, so we wanted two strong vegetarian dishes and with the extra protein of the grilled steak.  Will had not had grilled scapes before and he liked them.

We talked a lot about the 1933 house Will had recently bought on Spruce in the Los Lomas area near UNM.  We made a date to go see it at 9:00 on Monday.  

Will and Willy then called their friend Leno who came over and hooked up the TV to record HBO and we watched the latest episode of Game of Thrones.

At 11:00 the adults said goodnight to Jonathan and Gloria and the kids and we went to bed.

Bon Appetit 

May 27, 2016 Lunch – Boiled Lunch with Sautéed Italian Sausages, Fresh Corn and Asparagus Dinner – Duck Confit Ravioli with a Champagne Brown Butter Sauce with onions, Mushrooms, garlic, and Sugar Snap and Snow peas

May 27, 2016 Lunch – Boiled Lunch with Sautéed Italian Sausages, Fresh Corn and Asparagus  Dinner – Duck Confit Ravioli with a Champagne Brown Butter Sauce with onions, Mushrooms, garlic, and Sugar Snap and Snow peas

I went to Trader Joe’s after my podiatry appointment and bought two bottles of Cherry Blossom California Pinot Noir ( $3.99), three bottles of La Granja Spanish Rioja 50/50 Tempranillo/Grenache blend ($4.99, my favorite red wine for the money), a bottle of Valreas Cuvée Prestige 2013 Cotes du Rhone ($6.99) and a bottle of 2014 Chateau Haut Sorillon Bordeaux Superior ($7.99), plus a 4 ounce package of Prosciutto and a container of mini fresh Mozzarella balls.  Trader Joe’s is my favorite store for our every day wines. 

I then drove to Nantucket Shoals and bought a dozen frozen snails in the shells in a small plastic dish ready to microwave for $10.99 and 1 lb. of frozen crawfish tails for $14.95.

I then drove next door to Sprouts and bought Rainier cherries, apricots, and blueberries for the clafoutis, vine ripe tomatoes, three Sweet Italian Sausages, olive oil, and a container of grape tomatoes and a Tuscan melon for appetizers.

I then drove to Lowe’s to buy fresh ears of gourmet corn for 6 ears for $1.00 and two two liter bottles of tonic water and drove home, arriving at about 11:30.  I was hungry and asked Willy if he wanted me to make lunch.  He said okay.  I boiled a pot of water and first cooked two Italian Sausages, then I split the sausages and we sautéed the sausages in a large skillet with slices of yellow onion.  I the shucked the husk from two ears of corn and put them in the boiling water to cook with six stalks of asparagus.  When the sausages and slices of onion were cooked and brown, we served lunch with horseradish and German Deli mustard.  I drank a Negra Modelo with my lunch.

Melissa was coming to dinner at 6:00 at 5:30 Suzette picked some chard leaves and de-stemmed them.  Then she skewered a mozzarella ball, a grape tomato, and a piece of fresh chard on a toothpick for appetizers.  I peeled and cubed ½ of the Tuscan melon into about twenty pieces and then wrapped pieces of prosciutto around each piece of melon and secured them with toothpicks.  Suzette arranged the apps on our large new Portuguese appetizer plate.  I had chilled two bottles of Gruet brut champagne, so when Melissa arrived we poured glasses of champagne and took the bocce balls and appetizers to the bocce court and drank and ate and played bocce for an hour as the sun was setting.

We then went back inside and Suzette heated a pot of water and cooked the PPI Duck Confit Raviolis we made for our Valentine’s Day dinner and made a Champagne Brown Butter Sauce with onions, Mushrooms, garlic, and Sugar Snap and Snow peas.  We grew the snow peas and sugar snap peas in our garden and everyone helped strip the threads from them before Suzette put them into the sauce.

We discussed a wine and Melissa and Suzette both said Rose so I went to the fridge in the garage and fetched a bottle of Clavijo Rioja Rose that was 60% Grenache and 40% Tempranillo.  It was lovely with the duck confit in brown butter sauce (Total Wine for about $7.00 less 20%).  Everyone loved it.  A good inexpensive wine well  matched to good food makes a strong combination.  

We were still a little hungry after dinner so I fetched the Iberico cheese, butter, and fresh goose foie gras and toasted some Fano baguette and Bosque Bakery whole wheat sourdough and we had a cheese course with the rest of the Rose’.

Melissa had brought vanilla bean and caramel salt gelato and cookies from Flying Star, so for dessert Suzette and Melissa made parfaits of gelato and cookies.  

It was a lovely simple, but elegant, meal in the cool late evening air and light in the gazebo by the pond in the garden.

Melissa said goodnight at around 9:30 and we went to bed pleasantly full.  

Bon Appetit

May 26, 2016 Lunch – Que Huong, Dinner – Book Club

May 26, 2016  Lunch – Que Huong,  Dinner – Book Club

Robert Mueller called me at 10:30 to invite me to go to lunch, so I ate a piece of bread with butter and slices of Iberico cheese at 11:00 and then rode to Montano and back.  

I then showered and met Robert at Que Huong at 1:00.  I like Que Huong for two reasons, it has some of the best Vietnamese food in town and it has a great dining room with large picture windows with a wonderful view of the Sandias.  I selected a table with a marvelous view today.  When Robert came he repaid me the 100 € I had lent him for his trip to Paris.  He said, as he often does, that he will let me order for him.  Since it was a warm day, I ordered Grilled Pork and Egg rolls on Rice Vermicelli noodles.  The bowl of noodles resting on chopped lettuce and bean sprouts and topped with grilled glazed pork and fried egg rolls was excellent, although a little smaller than the bowl used by Vietnam 2000.  

We talked a bit about politics.  Robert is a Trump supporter, so there is disagreement on almost everything, especially the sources of data.

After lunch I drove to Ranch Market to buy onions at 5 lb. for $.99, plus 18 large eggs for $1.39, and Russet potatoes for 3 lb. for $.99.

I went to book club at Tom’s house.  He served Muflatto sandwiche with chips and for dessert, ice cream mixed with lemon curd and fresh blueberries and raspberries.  A lovely light dinner.

Bon Appetit

Robert Mueller called me at 10:30 to invite me to go to lunch, so I ate a piece of bread with butter and slices of Iberico cheese at 11:00 and then rode to Montano and back.  

I then showered and met Robert at Que Huong at 1:00.  I like Que Huong for two reasons, it has some of the best Vietnamese food in town and it has a great dining room with large picture windows with a wonderful view of the Sandias.  I selected a table with a marvelous view today.  When Robert came he repaid me the 100 € I had lent him for his trip to Paris.  He said, as he often does, that he will let me order for him.  Since it was a warm day, I ordered Grilled Pork and Egg rolls on Rice Vermicelli noodles.  The bowl of noodles resting on chopped lettuce and bean sprouts and topped with grilled glazed pork and fried egg rolls was excellent, although a little smaller than the bowl used by Vietnam 2000.  

We talked a bit about politics.  Robert is a Trump supporter, so there is disagreement on almost everything, especially the sources of data.

After lunch I drove to Ranch Market to buy onions at 5 lb. for $.99, plus 18 large eggs for $1.39, and Russet potatoes for 3 lb. for $.99.

I went to book club at Tom’s house.  He served Muflatto sandwiche with chips and for dessert, ice cream mixed with lemon curd and fresh blueberries and raspberries.  A lovely light dinner.

Bon Appetit

May 25, 2015 Lunch – Azuma Dinner – Cassarecce Pasta tossed with Pesto and Sautéed Zucchini, onion, Oyster mushrooms, garlic, and Oregano with hamburgers

May 25, 2015  Lunch – Azuma  Dinner – Cassarecce Pasta tossed with Pesto and Sautéed Zucchini, onion, Oyster mushrooms, garlic, and Oregano with hamburgers

I tried to walk with Suzette and got weak, so I decided to get some serious protein.  I suggested sushi to Willy and he was happy to go to Azuma.  I ordered my usual, Chirashi Donburi lunch for $14.99 with 2 salmon slices, 2 octopus slices, 4 Yellowtail, 2 Ultra white, and 2 tuna.

Here is a picture:

Willy ordered a Bento Box with grilled Teriyaki salmon, tempura, a California Roll, and rice.

We enjoyed lunch.  I took half of my lunch home.  On the way home we stopped at Fano and I bought two baguettes for $3.00 each.  Fano is my current favorite French bread bakery.

For dinner I had thawed out two large hamburgers and two small sliders.  We talked about the rest of dinner.  Willy wanted to do something with pesto.  We finally agreed to make Cassarecce pasta tossed in pesto.  I sliced up two zucchini squashes, an onion, about three ounces of fresh oyster mushrooms grown by Suzette’s people at the Center, two cloves of garlic, and the leaves stripped from six or seven sprigs of oregano.  The oregano in our garden is at its best now, almost fully grown but still young and tender.  

I sautéed the onions and squash first for about ten minutes and then added the mushrooms, garlic, and oregano, and tossed all the ingredients together and covered them with a wok cover to sweat them.  Suzette drained the pasta and added the pesto to it while she was also grilling the hamburgers. We turned off the heat to the pasta and Sauted vegetables and let them sit covered.

When the hamburgers were cooked to medium, she took brought them in and Suzette mixed the Sautéed vegetables with the pasta and pesto. Suzette then plated the pasta in a pile and put the hamburgers on the pasta.  I sliced and toasted two frozen dinner rolls for Willy’s sliders and a piece of freshly baked baguette from Fano that approximated the size of my hamburger and toasted the pieces and used two of them as a bun for my hamburgers.  I spread some of the basil mayo Willy had made yesterday on one piece of bread and catsup on the other for a heavenly delicious hamburger sandwich.  

I opened the bottle of 2015 of El Prado Spanish red wine I bought at Total wine for $8.99 less 20% on Saturday.  It was a 70% Temranillo 30% Cabernet Sauvignon blend fro The Valencia Denominacion de Origen.  We found it a bit heavy and bitter compared to our favorite la Granja 50% Tempranillo 50% Grenache blend from Rioja that we buy at Trader Joe’s for $4.99.  This illuminates a difference between Total Wine and Trader Joe’s worth noting.  Trader joe’s excels at finding the $4.00 to $7.00 bottles of wine.  Total wine has very few of these wines, which leads me to conclude that Total Wine marks up their cheaper wines to $8.00 to $10.00 per bottle.  These wines should be avoided.

What Total Wine excels at is the middle range of wines, those that retail at $12.00 to $18.00 per bottle.  Their middle priced wines are superior to any I have found anywhere else in New Mexico and a really good value when purchased at a 20% discount, which Total often offers.

I had the distinct feeling that the El Prado was a wine intended to compete against the super Tuscans that are Sagiovese/Cabernet Sauvignon blends.  In my opinion the better blend would have been Grenache/Cabernet Sauvignon, but for my money I would still choose a Tempranillo/Grenache blend.  I just like the softer less acidic wines that are more pleasant to drink with food, like La Granja,especially at $4.99 /bottle.

Bon Appetit