August 29, 2015 Guava Café and dinner at Debbie and Jeff’s

August 29, 2015 Guava Café and dinner at Debbie and Jeff’s

I met Jay for lunch at Birdland and he suggested a new restaurant, so we walked down the alley the 1 ½ blocks to Richmond, just north of Central to Guava Café.  When we checked the menu on the chalk board it became apparent that it was a Cuban sandwich shop.  I ordered a per il sandwich with roast pork, caramelized red onions and a garlic sauce the sandwich was long and toasted like it had been baked in a piece of folded pita shaped piece of bread.  Jay got a vegetarian eggplant sandwich made in a corn sopa with a tomato tart  and black beans that he liked.  My sandwich was nice but nearly the equal of Cubano Sandwich I ate at the Greenhouse Bistro and Bakery last week.

At 6:00 we went to Debbie and Jeff’s house, which is located at the highest point above Glenwood Hills and overlooks the entire valley.

Debbie had cooked a dinner party for 14 Friday night so she had lots of PPI Thai shrimp, Moroccan Chicken cooked with green olives, asparagus cooked in a sesame and soy sauce, a spicy cucumber and red onion salad, and Cole slaw.  Suzette made a Caprese Salad with tomatoes from,our garden and fresh mozzarella, and basil from her garden at the Center for Ageless Living.  

Jeff showed us an article in yesterday's newspaper announcing the successful test of a new drone killing weapon his engineering group had designed and told us about his plans to present the results to the U.S. Marine’s Impulse weapons symposium in the near future.  He was quite excited and we were impressed and happy for him.  Jeff works for a division of Boeing Aerospace.

We ate at a table on their lovely large patio as we watched the sun set behind a bank of clouds. 

After dinner Debbie cut slices of Tuxedo Cake from Costco and we drank glasses of brandy and Amaretto and watched the lights of Albuquerque flicker in the breezy evening from the table surrounded by glass at the most westerly portion of the patio that literally sits at a cantilevered area over the valley with a thirty foot drop into clusters of boulders below.  As we drove up the private drive we saw a female deer eating by the side of the road.  A very fun evening.

I stopped thinking about my water case for an hour or two, which was very refreshing.

Bon Appetit