Re: from Gail re: possible menus during when you are here

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Dinner on Thursday sounds fine.  I highly recommend making reservations
since it will probably be busier this time than earlier in the year.

The Lazy Acres idea might work for Friday; I could also just do a vegan
pizza since that might be more portable; also, if I get a sufficiently
large pizza, I could eat that for dinner on Saturday as well.

I agree with Noelle that clothes shopping on Friday would make the most
sense.

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:58:58 -0800 (PST)
 >
 > PS maybe me and Robert could go to Macys when you are playing tennis 
 > on Friday
 >
 >  > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:54:34 -0800 (PST)
 >  > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 >  > To: Gail <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 >  > 
 >  > Those  menus  sound  good  to  me.
 >  > 
 >  > The hotel still provides breakfast as far as I know.  But I
 >  > would enjoy coming over for pancakes on 1/1.
 >  > 
 >  > I remember going to Ojai as a kid where we would walk around the
 >  > downtown area.
 >  > 
 >  > this  shows  top  things  to  do  from  Trip  Advisor
 >  > 
 >  >  > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 >  >  > To: <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 >  >  > Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 21:30:05 -0800
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > Hi Noelle and Robert,
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > The following is what Don and I have been thinking. I think
 >  >  > you arrive to our home about mid-afternoon on Thurs. 12/30. I
 >  >  > think that would be a good time for the 4 of us to go out to
 >  >  > a restaurant that serves both vegan and regular food for
 >  >  > dinner that night.
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > Then Fri. 12/31 is New Year's Eve, so we will be having the
 >  >  > roast beef, potatoes, green beans, and dessert at the
 >  >  > dinner/dance while Robert brings ready to eat his vegan
 >  >  > dinner such as buying it somewhere here. I believe Lazy Acres
 >  >  > has prepared vegan dinners in their deli dept. to go if you
 >  >  > don't have any other ideas. For normal breakfasts and
 >  >  > lunches, we just eat our regular ones such as cold cereal and
 >  >  > toast, or non-nitrate breakfast meat and English muffins, or
 >  >  > Greek yogurt, granola, and cut up fruit parfait and lunches
 >  >  > are either poultry or lunch meat non-nitrate sandwiches with
 >  >  > cheese, lettuce, tomato. For mid-afternoon snacks, I usually
 >  >  > have Triscuits and peanut butter and 1 square of sugar free
 >  >  > dark chocolate with almonds in it - unless we are underway
 >  >  > somewhere that we need to have a restaurant lunch.
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > I almost forgot, if Fri. is not raining which so far it isn't
 >  >  > predicted to, I would like to be able to play women's doubles
 >  >  > tennis at 9 AM for about 2 hours - unless you and Don prefer
 >  >  > to do something else that I would like to join you with. I
 >  >  > need to know at least one day in advance in case I need to
 >  >  > get a tennis substitute for myself. Because of our many rainy
 >  >  > days which we needed, I haven't been able to do a lot of
 >  >  > exercise, and of course we had a fancy gourmet dinner with
 >  >  > our neighbor for Christmas.
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > On Sat. 1/1 New Year's Day and Don' birthday, if OK with you,
 >  >  > Noelle, I will make banana sour cream pancakes that has lemon
 >  >  > zest in it - or I could do that for Sun. morning
 >  >  > instead. Then for Don's Birthday dinner, if OK with you,
 >  >  > Noelle, I will make Marie Therese's recipe of Tartiflette
 >  >  > (which I thought you would enjoy with her salad recipe). In
 >  >  > the tartiflette are sliced potatoes, shallots, white wine,
 >  >  > cream, Roblechon cheese that becomes a baked casserole. Her
 >  >  > salad has lettuce, lardon or bacon, fried French bread
 >  >  > pieces, goat cheese, pecans, and dressing of garlic, olive
 >  >  > oil, red wine vinegar, salt & pepper.
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > Then for dessert I will make an almond tart that has lemon
 >  >  > zest in it (to go with vanilla yogurt ice cream) that I can
 >  >  > make ahead either Fri. or Sat.
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > I have made the Tartiflette and that salad before in the
 >  >  > past, but the dessert and pancakes are new recipes I haven't
 >  >  > made before.
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > I assume you will have to leave Sun. 1/2 after breakfast in
 >  >  > order to get home to get ready for work the next day, but let
 >  >  > me know if otherwise.
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > I will Google hiking/walking paths in Ojai as we don't know
 >  >  > about any. We haven't been to Ojai in at least 1 year or
 >  >  > more, so that idea would be fine.  When we go, we usually
 >  >  > attend a guided home design tour of 3-4 fancy homes there, so
 >  >  > we are not familiar with other things to do there especially
 >  >  > at this time of year.
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > I look forward to your input on my menu ideas fairly soon,
 >  >  > especially re: the tartiflette as I will have to order that
 >  >  > special Roblichon cheese from Lazy Acres ahead as I'm not
 >  >  > sure who else carries it.
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > Best,
 >  >  > Gail