I heated the PPI Vietnamese Omelet I had made last
night for breakfast. I enjoyed it with
its fried rice flavor much more pronounced than last night when lost in the sea
of flavors.
For lunch I wanted something simple with pasta, so
I made a dish I had in Mexico on that same fateful 1968 trip I described a
couple of days ago about the mummy filled catacombs in Querétaro and the serrano
guacamole. Val and I stayed with a
family in Mexico City and one evening la Señora made spaghetti in guacamole
sauce that I will never forget because it was so delicious and unusual. So for lunch today I took a handful of the
PPI spaghetti and chopped it into bite sized lengths.
I placed a large scoop of the PPI Calabacitas into
the wok and heated it with some olive oil and then added a large scoop of
guacamole to it and diced a Roma tomato and cooked that into the
mixture for a few minutes to make a pretty fair approximation of the Mexico
City spaghetti sauce. Then I added the
chopped pasta and heated the whole mixture until it warmed. The ozidized discolored guacamole made the sauce look ugly but it tasted amazing, very similar
to the recipe I had eaten in Mexico City.
I went to Sprouts at after a 4:00 appointment and
bought peaches for $.49/lb. to make
peach and blueberry cobbler, ¾ lb. of fresh Sea Bass (Mexican corvina,
$8.99/lb.), two fresh Brats ($2.99/lb.), some lovely white mushrooms
($2.99/lb.), some asparagus ($2.49/lb.), some chocolate covered fruit and nuts
($3.99/lb.).
Tomorrow I will go to Pro’s and buy mangos and
perhaps we will make a mango, peach and blueberry cobbler.
When I returned home at 8:30 after meditation, we
were excited to watch all the news shows regarding the Supreme Court DOMA and
Prop 8 decisions and Wendy Davis’ filibuster in the Texas Senate against the
Republican majority’s anti-abortion clinic legislation, so we did not want to
cook much. I could not come up with an
idea, but Suzette asked, "Shall we make a fish quesadilla or tacos?" After she explained again that we had PPI
fish stew, I said, “Yes, I would love a fish quesadilla.”
So Suzette, as the official quesadilla maker, took over in the kitchen. She took two large burrito sized flour
tortillas and the container of PPI fish stew out of the fridge and heated the
fish stew in a skillet to reduce some of its sauciness. Then she heated the two tortillas in a large
iron skillet to toast them a bit, while I shredded some Pecorino Romano cheese.
She flipped the tortillas’ toasted
sides up and ladled the fish mixture onto one of the toasted tortillas and
added the cheese and then laid the other tortilla toasted side down on top of
the fish and cheese mixture and toasted the outsides of the tortillas
and heated and melted the cheese into the fish mixture. I fetched two beers from the fridge. Suzette likes crema and avocado on her
quesadilla and we did not have any crema, so she mixed some mango yogurt with
the guacamole to make a thick mango guacamole cream sauce and we were ready to
eat.
She cut the Quesadilla in half and then each half
into thirds and put three slices on each plate and we each scooped the mango
guacamole sauce onto our plates and made lovely plates of fish quesadilla with
mango guacamole cream sauce.
We watched the Colbert Report and Jon Stewart Show
(I enjoy John Oliver's wonderful, amazed Brit outsider take on U.S. news) coverage of the
events of the day starting at 9:00 p.m. and then went to bed happy and
full. I do think that the DOMA decision
that found that the U.S. (DOMA legislation) could treat same sex couples whose
marriages were sanctioned in their state of residence, could not be treated
differently from other married persons is a historically significant decision. It reinforces America’s commitment to the
equality of all persons under the law.
Bon Appétit
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