Tuesday, November 25, 2014

November 24, 2104 Dallas to Sayulita Roasted Chicken tacos

I got up around 4:00 and blogged for a bit and said good morning to Elaine who had gotten up to drive Rebecca to the airport to return to NYC and her job at Goldman Sachs.

I went back to bed and we got up at 6:30 to shower, eat and leave for the airport.  We ate most of the rest of the gravad lax on Einstein bagels Elaine brought home from her trip to the airport with Rebecca.  Then at 8:15 Billy drove us to DFW for our 10:15 flight to Puerto Vallarta.  

When we arrived in Sayulita, we made it with some difficulty past the time share salesmen to the rental car area and checked in with Europcar.  After we picked up our rental car we drove the one block to Marina Plaza and decided we wanted to at lunch first.

We parked at the Lloyd’s end of the Plaza where the Pasta Restaurant is located and went into Lloyd’s and exchanged $300 (the exchange rate was 13.05 pesos to the dollar so we got 3,915 pesos).  There is a small pasta restaurant that we like just in front of Lloyd’s, so we ordered lunches of ravioli, salad, a drink and a dessert for 79 pesos each.  Suzette ordered ricotta and spinach ravioli with pesto and I ordered ground beef filled ravioli with Bolognese sauce.  We both liked our dishes and love the fresh pasta that this small restaurant and pasta shop serves and sells.
 
I did not know what I was doing but pointed to a stack of bottles at the bottom of the cooler and when we opened the bottle of water found that it was a lovely carbonated mineral water.  We were satisfied with our lunch, so we took the desserts with us.

We then walked to the other end of the Plaza to the Pelican Supermarket and bought 780 pesos of groceries, including chorizo, smoked tuna, avocados, a cucumber, peach marmalade, limes, onions, grated manchego cheese, milk, natural yogurt, Castillo Anejo Rum, soda water, a 1 pack of Noche Buena, a loaf of onion bread, black beans, etc.  The most fun we had was tasting the different fresh mole concentrates that the store offered.  We had no trouble deciding on the Oaxaca black mole and bought about ½ lb. for 17 pesos.

We usually buy honey, but did not like the commercial stuff they offered in the store. But when we walked outside we saw an artisan foods stand with goods from Michoacán that had whipped fresh pure honey, so we bought a small container for 45 pesos.

We then walked around the corner to our favorite chicken rotisserie shop and bought a whole chicken dinner with four roasted jalapenos, an order of rice, an order of roasted potatoes and seven tortillas for 120 pesos.

At around 3:30 we drove out of the Plaza Marina and north out of PV and, without much congestion on the national highway, and made it to Sayulita in about 25 minutes, even though our small Dodge car did not have much power.

It took us a while to find the Villas Miramar at 11 Palmar Street, but we finally did and were settled into our apartment by June and David and Terry.  After changing clothes and unpacking our grips and food, we walked on the beach at sunset and felt that we had made a good choice of places to rent. 
The villas are arranged in a two sided walled compound running from the ocean to Palmar street, just north of the rocky outcropping in the middle of the small bay about a mile from the main part of town, which is now the new hot area in Sayulita, perhaps because it more quiet but still has a good view of the southern half of the bay.  Unfortunately, because the bay at Sayulita is bounded on the South by a high headlands, you do not get a sunset over the water, just the headland, so our location is better because it gives you a wider view of the sunset over the ocean, which was deeply pink this evening.

After our walk we went back to the apartment and Suzette heated up the two thigh quarters of the chicken, two jalapenos, slices of roasted potatoes and the seven tortillas, while I sliced threads of fresh onion, avocado and slices of cucumber.  We filled plates with chicken and the other ingredients and took them with a Noche Buena beer to the palapa at the beach and filled the warmed tortillas with the ingredients and enjoyed a great hot chicken taco dinner with a wonderful view of the town of Sayulita in the waning sunset.  I noticed that my nose was beginning to open up from the change from city smog to salt ocean breezes.   

We went back to the room and I went back to bed, sleeping soundly from 8:30 to 4:00.

Bon Appetit





Bon Appétit     

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