Another glorious evening w mussels!

Another beautiful weekend. But when does this weekend has to come? Right before our deadly finals week. After a day spent in front of a computer nonstop(switching between physics problem sets, physics lab report, compsci assignment, yes, and of course food blogs), only after one o'clock in the morning could i relax. only after panicking that my compsci program was not catching exceptions, only after realizing that my compsci program was not line justificating, but just deleting all the lines except the last line, only after fixing it again multiple times and sending in multiple drafts of my program  and sending an email to my professor that i-did-send-my-first-draft-in-time-could-you-please-understand-?, i could drop into an endless sleep. 

but what else did i have? of course more work. but that did not stop me from cooking a lovely meal celebrating my hard-earned rest at least for a day (or i insisted i had to earn some rest). 


wholefoods were on a clam sale, so we started off with two pounds of clams, garlic, parsley, an a spanish albarino.

it was hard to find some nice chorizo, so we at last set on some portuguese hot sausage, which turned out to be not that hot, not that chewy, not that firm and juicy as expected. oh well. 


we sauted the sausages, garlic, chopped up some onions, poured in a cup of wine and mussles and set to simmer. and they ..

opened up! yumm, hi clams! 


we took our food outside to enjoy the sunshine, and the crisp, dry albarino was worth every sip.

the parsley added a nice green touch to it, the clams were extremely juicy, the broth was clear and just hit to spot. ahh.. at least i could create an illusion for myself that finals week was yet to start. 

 

blackberries for dessert! and some soft creamy cheese, and i was all set. 

* oh we had some baguette of mopping up the broth, but this time the wholefoods baguette's crust was not crispy enough, the texture not chewy nor fluffy, just not up to expectations :( why does wholefoods quality vary so much? very disppointing. we need our bread, not cake!