Thursday 18 April
Our friend Mary Ann and her friend
Diane were in town for the ARCE convention (that's American Research Center in
Egypt to you), and we asked them over for a remember-Tucson reunion
dinner. That would normally mean Mexican
food, but as we'd had some so recently, we kept to a more open theme, the only
real allusion to the place being the tortilla chips and green tomatillo salsa
we served for starters (with hummus for Diane, who's allergic to peppers).
Our main dish was our famous soletimbocca;
as well as the smoked salmon, a fresh sorrel leaf was folded into each little
fillet before it was floured and fried, giving it a lemony zip.
When the little packets were done,
we deglazed the pan with shrimp stock from last Saturday, which made all the
sauce we needed; and garnished with a little chiffonade of more sorrel.
On the side went simple batons of
zucchini, quick-fried with garlic in olive oil.
Our dessert was Holt's pistachio cake (made from David Warda's recipe),
topped with mocha chip and/or coconut chip ice cream, just to introduce our
guests to Graeter's. Oh, and port, and
applejack, and some chocolate-covered strawberries, just because we could.
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