Cathy Birthday

Cathy’s Birthday week.

Cathy’s birthday had a arrived and we decided to combine a trip to San Francisco with the general celebration of her birthday.

Tuesday we planned to cook a pork roast for dinner and then have leftovers on Thursday. When Cliff went out to get the paper we discovered a large Fed-Ex box. Michael and Tamara had sent Cathy steaks from Lobel’s in New York as a surprise birthday gift.

The pork went into the freezer for another night. There were four steaks, 2 porterhouses and 2 New York Strips. We decided to bar-b-que 1 of each and then cook the other two on Thursday night.

Tomato season was coming to a close so we decided to make a last papa-al-pomd or (Tomato Bread soup) as a first course. It was excellent.

We grilled corn on the grill. In addition we cut up potatoes added butter, and wrapped them in aluminum foil. We tossed them on the grill also. They really turned out good, crispy and buttery with some of the taste of the grill.
Wine: Cimicky 2004 Shirza Trumps, Maurer Weinviertel 2003 Gruner Veltliner.

From Whole Foods we bought German Chocolate cake.

Cathy’s birthday was on Wednesday and we decided to eat at Campanile.

On Wednesday Mark Peel cooks a special tasting meal. It looked excellent but was huge. We decided to compose our own meal there.

1st course: Lobster cooked in butter with first shaved white truffles of the season
2nd course: Risotto with duck confit
3rd course: Whole grilled lobster with cherry tomato and garlic
Desert: Nectrine 3-point Tart

It was an exceptional meal, and made a great birthday.

Thursday we grilled the remaining steaks.
We sautéed the corn grilled corn with shallots.
Wines: Mantra Rose Bliss 2004.