Travelling Mussels

Wines

Domaine Jo Pithon Anjou Chinin Blanc – Les Blanches Bergeres 2006

Domaine Ramonet Bourgogne 2007 Pinot Noir

Domaine de la Charmoise Touraine Sauvignon 2009

Robert stopped by to advise me on my Bread Baking See No Knead Bread Baking blog entry. Actually, he gave advice, I ignored it, and followed the recipe for the bread exactly as written. I do remember his valid advice and will use it for future bread baking adventures. I simply wanted to get an exact baseline for baking using the bread recipe as written. We did drink some excellent wine as the bread baked.

I then invited him to literally break bread with us to sample my first loaf. He was planning to make mussels at his house – so he went home and gathered the ingredients for his Mussels and Beans and returned with Darryl to our house to cook his mussels. He had purchased them at McCall’s Meat and Fish and they were all cleaned and de-bearded. After steaming them in wine and sherry he removed the mussels and made a stew with Italian beans. The dish was excellent, and it was great to have the fresh bread to mop up the sauce. Yum.

We re-heated the Cabbage and Rice Soup and had a small portion each – inaugurating our new soup bowls we had purchased the previous Saturday at Peter Shire's Christmas ceramics sale. The recipe can be found in our blog post of: Dec 5, 2010. Click the date to get the recipe.

We then served a Chicken Pot Pie we had bought at Clementine. There are very few frozen foods that we like, however, Clementine is a giant exception. We always have a frozen Apple Pie, frozen Chicken Pot Pie and various frozen Soups from Clementine in our freezer. They are all excellent. To restock our freezer is one of the few reasons to drive to the West Side from our Silverlake perch.

We finished the dinner with Brownies Darryl had previously baked. We had frozen them and the defrosted perfectly. Darryl was amazed how good they were. I think he will be freezing them in the future.