July 18, 2026 Breakfast - Lax on Bagels Lunch - Boiled Shrimp. Dinner - Sautéed Salmon Fillet with Yu Choy Fried Rice
I got a good night’s sleep and awakened around 7:00.
I turned on Stage 14 of the Tour and toasted 1/2 bagel cut into two slices horizontally and spread them with cream cheese and garnished them with slices of red onion and Gravad lax and drank a cup of chai with collagen for breakfast.
Tadej put another minute on the field by launching aphis attack 2 km. from the top of the last of four mountains.
We then drove to the farmers’ market and I bought a loaf of French country bread and we bought five ears of fresh white corn from Wagners’ Farm in Corrales.
We then tok several cases of bottles to the recycling center on Menaul and drove home.
It was nearly noon when I drove to El Super to shop. I bought mangos, cucumbers, Persian cucumbers, limes, lemons, celery, broccoli, green chilis, tomatoes, tortillas, requeson, shredded mozzarella, red chili, chicken quarters, pork chops, smoked pork cutlets, green onions, and a pound of large shrimp.
Everything to made tabouli, Calabacitas, chicken enchiladas fried pork chops and eggs for breakfast, plus an extra vegetable.
When I return home at 1:49 I had missed most of the first half of the World Cup Bronze medal match between England and France and England was ahead 4 to 0 by the half.
Suzette steamed the shrimp and made cocktail sauce with catsup and lemon. We ate about six shrimp each and refrigerated 8 for a shrimp omelet for breakfast. I also ate the last 1/2 of a several day old toasted croissant and we drank the last two glasses of the French Sauvignon Blanc, Vielles Vignes.
We then watched one of the most exciting second halves of football I have ever seen.
France scored three goals to come within 1 point of tying. Then England scored again and then France scored to bring the goals to 5 to 4 and late in the game Bellingham scored a 6th English goal to secure the victory.
There were many superlatives in this match and several questions.
Mbpape went two goals ahead of Messi in the golden goal competition, Saka scored a hat trick, England scored the most goals ever in its history of World Cup play. Why did England not play Saka against Argentina and why did England play so badly against Argentina and not guard Messi better?
After the match I rested and Suzette made blueberry Bread pudding.
Here is the recipe.
This is the second amazing dessert Suzette has made in the last 17 days. The first was the lemon tiramisu for my birthday party on July 2.
When I got up around 5:00 we made Calabacitas and dinner.
I diced a yellow squash and a zucchini from the Center’s garden plus 1/2 of one of the Anaheim chilis and 1/2 of a Vidalia onion and Suzette cut the kernals off two ears of corn. We put the ingredients into a enamel casserole and cooked it on the stove.
Suzette picked four or five stalks of oregano in our garden and I stripped and chopped the leaves and put that approximately 1/2 cup of oregano in the pot of Calabacitas.
Dinner -then I peeled and minced four cloves of garlic from our garden plus a small piece of ginger root, and chopped and seared the green leaves from the white stalks of five or six Yu Choy and thinly sliced three large green onions.. Suzette stir fried the garlic and ginger and then added the white Yu Choy stalks and then two cups of cooked rice, the green onions, and chopped green leaves. Finally we added a seasoning sauce containing Chinese rice cooking wine, soy, sesame oil, cornstarch and some water.
About 1/2 hour before dinner Suzette had marinated a 1 lb. salmon fillet in white miso, white vermouth (instead of sake), and mirin. She then sautéed the salmon fillet in peanut oil.
She presented the sautéed salmon fillet on a pile of fried rice with Yu Choy.
It was a delicious dinner. I drank green tea and Suzette drank a beer.
I blogged this entry from 7:00 until 8:00 when we watched Father Brown and then Death in Paradise until 10:00 when we went to bed, although I slept through much of the latter.
Bon Appetit
