December 21, 2024 Breakfast - Bagels and Lax Lunch - Leftover Chili Relleno and beans. Dinner - Sashimi stuffed Avocados with Sushi rice, andWasabi/avocado paste

December 21, 2024 Breakfast - Bagels and Lax  Lunch - Leftover Chili Relleno and beans. Dinner - Sashimi stuffed Avocados with Sushi rice, and wasabi/avocado paste

This morning I tried the newly cured Salmon on bagels with cream cheese, red onion slices, and capers and it was pretty good, soft and just a hint of dill and salt.

Then I rode the therapeutic bike 1.00 mile.

At 12:30 I heated the leftover chili Relleno and beans from yesterdays lunch with Aaron at Padilla’s with a few corn chips to get the full effect of a Padilla’s lunch.

I felt stuffed, so I drank the last of the Smith’s root beer to settle my stomach with some carbonation

At 1:30 I walked around the block and ended up with 2400 steps that grew to 3300 by bedtime.

The big event of the day was the Texas v. Clemson college playoff game at 2:00, which Texas won, go Horns.

There were also two soccer fixtures, two NFL games, and two other college playoff games, so an entire day of football.

I had a menu idea for Dinner.

We had four avocados of varying degrees of freshness. One was mostly over the hill, one was great, and two others were edible with minor surgery.

I mixed the super soft one with wasabi, mirin, sesame oil, and lime juice to make a thick dressing.  The others I cut in half and filled with raw salmon and Aji tuna. I also peeled, seeded and cut 1/3 cucumber into spears and sliced two radishes and placed those items on a plate covered with romaine lettuce leaves. I chopped pickled ginger and fetched soy sauce and heated rice bowls filled with sushi rice. The wasabi dressing was very spicy, soft and so we dumped the pickled ginger onto our plates and mixed the avocado/wasabi dressing with soy to reduce its spiciness and made lettuce tacos by dipping torn bits of Lettuce leaf filled with fish, avocado, and pickled ginger into the soy/avocado/wasabi dressing/sauce. I drank tea and Suzette drank limoncello.

It was an interesting dish that reminded me of how Noda mixed Avocado and wasabi and sushi.

I loved it and Suzette thought it was “interesting”.

After dinner we sipped cognac and ate two Belgium chocolates each as we watched Father Brown and Death in Paradise. I with a cup of tea.

Then Suzette went to bed and I stayed up to watch an episode of the new PBS Sherlock Holmes with Cumberbunch.

We are ready for the family to arrive starting tomorrow.

Bon Appetit