We bought Kaiser rolls at Pastian’s Bakery on Saturday in anticipation of making
hamburgers with the large approximately ¾ lb. hamburgers we had made from the
ground beef we bought several weeks ago and froze.
I ate ½ of
the apple bread with tea for breakfast and watched the market reports and a
little after 8:00 I rode ten miles to Montano and back. Shortly after I returned I received a call
from Bruce, the City electrical inspector, and went to the Candy Store to meet
him. He inspected the replacement of the
steel conduit with PVC conduit under the floor to bring it to code and signed
the rough-in approval tag, so now we can pour concrete and move forward with
the renovation.
When I
returned I made calls to Las Cruces to determine how to file the federal case
in the water adjudication case in State District Court.
By 11:00 I
was getting hungry and decided today was the day I had to eat the PPI raw tuna
and PPI steak from last week.
Miso Noodle
Soup
I make a
pretty predictable pot of soup. I fill a
medium sauce pan to ¾ full of water and add ingredients, plus some miso, tofu, seaweed, green onion and noodles and boil it. I go to Ta Lin
and buy different types of noodles that look like they can be used in
soups.
Here is the wrapper for the Korean noodles I used. The picture of clam soup with the noodles that says "serving suggestion" told me these were soup noodles.
Today the other ingredients included ½ lb. of PPI rib eye steak and ¼ lb. of fresh aji tuna, so
I added ½ cube of beef bouillon to the water and about 1 Tbsp. of dried seshe seaweed. Then I cut up the tuna and steak
and added it and then ½ of a medium onion and 4 or 5 minced cloves of garlic
and cooked that for a few minutes. I
then picked and added about 1/3 cup of purslane, 1 packet of thin translucent mung
bean noodles and 1 wrapped bundle of wheat flour Korean Style Noodles. I then sliced thinly 1 scallion and about 3
oz. of medium firm tofu and added those to the soup after fifteen minutes of
cooking along with 1 large Tbsp. of Brown miso.
In another few minutes the noodles began to soften and became edible and
I added a squirt of sweet Hoisin sauce and ate two bowls of the soup with chop
sticks and a spoon. That left a little
more than one bowl of soup for another meal, so I covered the pot and put it into
the fridge. After lunch I thawed out two
hamburgers.
Around 5:00,
after successfully filing my federal case in district court and reviewing a
lease for Aaron, I checked my stock portfolio and was pleasantly surprised that
Apple and the market in general had rebounded from their earlier slump. I guess the investing world has realized that
in uncertain times when there are so many threats to world economic stability that
are putting downward pressure on gold, oil, the Euro and the pound sterling that
the U.S. stock market is a pretty good place to put your money. Or
maybe investors are happy that finally the U.S. is stepping up to its
responsibilities as the world leader and going after ISIL with the hope that U.S.
involvement will bring some sort of stable resolution to the conflicts raging
in the Middle East. Also the new Apple
larger phones, wrist watch and pay system were launched yesterday and, although
there was early short selling, by the afternoon everyone seemed to have
concluded that Apple’s new pay system may be a game changer and everyone will
want an Apple phone and possibly a wrist watch, so Apple went up $3.00 to $101 a
share and that pushed my gain for the year to date back above 10%.
Around 6:00
I called Suzette to find out if she was on her way home yet and she was still
at work but said she would leave then.
So I started slicing the last red potato, the last ½ onion and the last
two white mushrooms and 5 or 6 cloves of garlic.
I began sauteing these ingredients, potatoes first and then the onions and mushrooms. After about ten to fifteen minutes I added about 2 Tbsp.
of red vermouth to the pan and lowered the temperature and covered the
ingredients to steam them. When Suzette
arrived a few minutes later at around 6:45 I asked her if she wanted her
hamburger grilled or simply sautéed and she said she did not care, so I added the two hamburgers to the skillet with the ingredients to cook and covered them.
I sliced the two PPI tomatoes Suzette had
bought at the Santa Fe Farmer’s Market on Saturday morning and added about 1 Tbsp.
of olive oil to the last of the Dijonnaise mayonnaise dressing on put some on
each slice of tomato. I
then sliced blue cheese and placed them on the hamburgers when I flipped them a
few minutes later. I had run to the
basement before cooking and had fetched a bottle of 2010 Chalone Vineyard Pinot
Noir from Monterrey County, CA ($9.99 at Trader Joe’s in 2011) and opened it
around 6:15, so it would open up a bit.
I toasted
the Kaiser rolls and Suzette fetched mayonnaise and salad and I fetched ketchup and we were ready to eat.
We slathered
mayo and catsup and the last of the Dijon mayo dressing on the Kaiser buns and added
our hamburgers and lettuce. Then we spooned
the sautéed potato, mushroom and onion medley onto our plates and poured glasses
of pinot noir and sat down to listen to the President speak to the nation.
Later I ate
a bowl of chocolate ice cream with whipped cream and chocolate sauce to celebrate
my full recovery from the awful respiratory infection I had the last two weeks.
The Pinot
was okay. I am not a fan of Central
Coast pinots. They tend to be big and musty (due to the warmer growing conditions), not clarified and delicate, like
the ones grown farther north in Anderson and the Willamette valleys. Of course this pinot's northern relatives tend to cost three or
four times more, so it is hard to justify drinking them with a hamburger, unless
you have a large disposable income, in which case they probably seem like a
bargain compared to good French pinots from Burgundy.
Bon Appétit
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