December 1, 2014 Breakfast Smoked Tuna omelet and black beans Dinner PPI Rellenos Nogadas with mole sauce, rice and green beans

December 1, 2014  Breakfast  Smoked Tuna omelet and black beans  Dinner  PPI Rellenos Nogadas with mole sauce, rice and green beans

We first took a walk on the beach and found two coffee beans and a Robertsi cowrie, plus several miters and one interesting small black volute shell.

After our walk, we started using up the stuff we bought and so we made a really great smoked tuna omelet with tuna, onions, red pepper, Manchego cheese, garnished with slices of avocado, cucumber, and chopped cilantro.  The best part of the meal was the PPI black beans that Suzette re-heated and served with the omelet.  They were really good.  Suzette had cooked them with chorizo, onions, avocado leaves and hoja santa leaves.  The hoja santa went into solution and although the avocado leaves did not go into solution both flavored the beans with a wonderful warm vegetable flavor that went well with the cheesy fish flavor of the omelet.

omelet and beans un-garnished 

We drank PPI fresh orange juice with the omelet and beans. This breakfast, with it wonderful omelet and fabulous beans, was the best meal of our trip.

After breakfast we spent the day on the veranda resting and reading and sipping mojitos.

I lay in the shade and Suzette in the sun. 

Here is what the beach looked like today:

Around 5:00 we went to the kitchen for our big final dinner.  We snapped the last of the green beans and blanched them in water.  We heated the PPI Rellenos Nogadas we made in our cooking class with Mavi Graf in the toasted oven for about twenty minutes at 350˚ and we re-heated the PPI chicken mole sauce and the PPI rice.

When everything was heated we filled our plates to overflowing with the Rellenos Nogadas, rice, green beans and mole and took our plates to the palapa and drank our last two Noche Buenas on the veranda and watched the swimmers, walkers, surfers, and sunset.  There appeared to be a wedding celebration at the trailer park next door to our condos that was in full swing, so there was lots of beach activity.

We watched the sun set, but it fizzled into darkness without any of the exuberant streaks of red like the first night we were here.  The beach, palm trees and sun setting into the ocean has its own charm, regardless of how undramatic it is in a visual sense.

Devon brought us six chocolate truffles, so after dinner we wrote to Willy to see how his dissertation went and sipped tea and brandy and ate chocolate truffles for a while.

We are rested and ready to return to Albuquerque.

Bon Appetit

Bon Appétit