New Years La Paz 2008-2009

We ended the year having a last nice dinner at "Las Tres Virgenes" on December 30Th, since we are not a fan of fixed New Years Eve menus. As usual, the food and service was exceptional.

As an appetizer, we had Maria Jose's famous Caesar salad. Jesse, one of the owners, had been telling us about the new source of Arborio rice he found for his risottos. We both ordered risotto based dishes, Sue a medallion of beef and Alex shrimp. Both dishes were barbecued over mesquite coals accompanied by a Porta Cabernet Sauvignon from Chile.

The aroma coming from these meals when they were served was amazing. Just sitting at the table inhaling the smells coming off your dish was already half the meal. Incredible.

A small flan rounded up the meal with a couple of Don Pedro's to help settle it all down in its proper places. As usual, dining at the "Virgins" is an experience you'll never forget.

For New Year's eve, we decided to stay on the boat. If not only for our own personal safety, but also the boats and Gigi, our Siamese cat. We didn't want her to go crazy with all of that noise going on outside the boat. Mexicans have a tendency to shoot guns into the air around midnight and fireworks, regardless of where they land. And what goes up will eventually come down, just in the case of the bullets you don't hear or see them.


So we decided to prepare a lavish meal. Sue went digging in the freezer and came up with the perfect meal: a lobster tail and a pair of thick and juicy Angus T-bone steaks.
The lobster was diced and prepared in a butter/garlic sauce and served as an appetizer. The steaks ended up on a grill for it's proper grilling. Along with some baked potatoes with all the trimmings came a bottle of 1994 Navarro Correas Pinot Noir, a present from Roberto, an old Uruguayan friend living in Puerto Rico. We had saved the bottle for a special occasion and thought, this was a appropriate one.

The rest of the evening was spent playing cards and walking the dock before the big bang. Yes, they do know how to celebrate New Year's in Mexico, gauging from the amount of fireworks and fire crackers going off for hours.

We popped a bottle of Chilean Concha y Torro bubbly to welcome the New Year and pay tribute to Neptune (even that dude needs a little bit of the good stuff despite living in the Ocean. Gotta keep him happy).

The night was over around 12:30 AM