My uncle Ernie has been staying in Milwaukee for a few days, and this evening made the trip over to see us. For our meal, we picked up a number of fresh food from Whole Foods: tasty french bread, Dubliner cheese, a salad with all the fixin's, Fat Bastard Wine, and veal chops with garlic. We made a variation on the Pork Chops and Porcini Mushrooms recipe he gave us a while ago, using both porcini and morel mushrooms, with equal parts sour cream and mushroom juice for the sauce. The mushrooms were not gritty this time, thanks to some good thinking by Laura of how to drain the sauce. We went all out, adding in some oven roasted potatoes, cooked with rosemary, garlic powder and olive oil, and finished it all off with some ice cream and vanilla milano cookies. Ernie is happily traveling around the country, heading to Michigan next to see the 1000 islands on lake Huron, where he and my grandfather used to go fishing. We had a great time talking and dining with him, as well as hearing about my old landscaping boss Ramon in Milwaukee, and wish him well on his journeys.
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2004
Ernie's Visit
My uncle Ernie has been staying in Milwaukee for a few days, and this evening made the trip over to see us. For our meal, we picked up a number of fresh food from Whole Foods: tasty french bread, Dubliner cheese, a salad with all the fixin's, Fat Bastard Wine, and veal chops with garlic. We made a variation on the Pork Chops and Porcini Mushrooms recipe he gave us a while ago, using both porcini and morel mushrooms, with equal parts sour cream and mushroom juice for the sauce. The mushrooms were not gritty this time, thanks to some good thinking by Laura of how to drain the sauce. We went all out, adding in some oven roasted potatoes, cooked with rosemary, garlic powder and olive oil, and finished it all off with some ice cream and vanilla milano cookies. Ernie is happily traveling around the country, heading to Michigan next to see the 1000 islands on lake Huron, where he and my grandfather used to go fishing. We had a great time talking and dining with him, as well as hearing about my old landscaping boss Ramon in Milwaukee, and wish him well on his journeys.
My uncle Ernie has been staying in Milwaukee for a few days, and this evening made the trip over to see us. For our meal, we picked up a number of fresh food from Whole Foods: tasty french bread, Dubliner cheese, a salad with all the fixin's, Fat Bastard Wine, and veal chops with garlic. We made a variation on the Pork Chops and Porcini Mushrooms recipe he gave us a while ago, using both porcini and morel mushrooms, with equal parts sour cream and mushroom juice for the sauce. The mushrooms were not gritty this time, thanks to some good thinking by Laura of how to drain the sauce. We went all out, adding in some oven roasted potatoes, cooked with rosemary, garlic powder and olive oil, and finished it all off with some ice cream and vanilla milano cookies. Ernie is happily traveling around the country, heading to Michigan next to see the 1000 islands on lake Huron, where he and my grandfather used to go fishing. We had a great time talking and dining with him, as well as hearing about my old landscaping boss Ramon in Milwaukee, and wish him well on his journeys.
