This was a much quieter week than the last two. On Monday, Diana took Kris and Cat to the airport for their flight back to San Jose with a stop at Pappadeaux en route for oyster fest.
Early Tuesday morning I headed to Houston for a couple of days – managed to avoid the majority of the heavy rain and flooding. That night I went to my favorite music restaurant, Sambuca. The music was disappointing – a weak cover band doing Beatles songs and the like – way too heavy on the bass and nothing much to keep my attention. Thankfully, the chilli rubbed scallops on risotto coins was as good as ever. I read some of my book and tried to ignore the music as much as possible.
I made a couple of Blue Apron meals – Spiced Lamb and Beef Tagine with Lemon-Garlic Couscous and Labneh, and Chicken Picatta with Fusilli Pasta and Garlic Chives. Labneh is a kind of yogurt that went really well with the lamb. This was our favorite week so far of these meals – both had great flavor.
I signed up for the wine pairings from Blue Apron and those have been very nice. They send you small bottles that are just right for 2 people and pair with each of the meals for the month.
On Wednesday night, the Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers very handily. On Sunday they completely destroyed them – made the Lebron James squad look like a college team. The performance from the Warriors bench players in both games has been amazing with different players stepping up in each game. I looked into tickets for game 5 in Oakland – but decided to pass on $700 a seat for the nose bleed area.
We watched the movie, “A Walk in the Woods” – Robert Redford plays Bill Bryson, the travel writer who wrote the book about his months on the Appalachian trail. I really enjoyed the book and the movie gets a solid B- as reasonably mindless entertainment. Nick Nolte as Bryson’s traveling companion was entertaining but completely divergent from the book.
New music this week was from Marc Broussard. He’s playing at the Granada theater on Greenville Avenue later in the year and I wanted to check out some of his music to see if it was a good pick to attend. I saw him briefly at One Eyed Jack’s in New Orleans a few years ago but we were late and didn’t get too much to judge from. I liked his music a lot and bought tickets. Here’s one of my favorites, “I’ll Never Know”. His phrasing is very similar to Chris Stapleton on several songs.
We have the Ian Moore concert at the Granada next week and I’ve been revisiting some of my favorites from him. Really looking forward to the show. Ian sings like an angel and is a fantastic blues guitarist.