I drank a cup of coffee with hot chocolate for breakfast. Then we worked in the garden. We planted a new quince tree and weeded an area in which we will plant tomatoes and basil tomorrow.
We put my bike in the little truck and drove to Zendo coffee where Suzette bought two bags of coffee from Chiapas and we walked through Gertrude Zachary’s and looked at the antiques.
We then drove to the Bike Coop and dropped off my bike. It was noon and we were getting hungry, so we stopped at Vietnam 2000 for lunch. I let Suzette order. We shared an appetizer of Spring rolls with shredded pork and a number 50, which is a layer of cooked flour sheets laid over a bed of sautéed mung bean sprouts and julienned cucumber garnished with fried egg rolls and grilled pork. We liked the no. 50 and did not like the spring rolls. The reason why we did not like the spring rolls is because they were filled with mostly rice vermicelli wrapped in a rice noodle wrapper, which seemed like an excessive amount of rice noodles, especially since we were eating a dish with rice noodles.
After lunch we continued to Total Wine, where Suzette bought two bottles of shearling Scott for $26.95 each and I bought two bottles of Bacardi Gold for $11.99 each and a bottle of XO Calvados for $29.99 and seven or eight bottles of mostly 2016 French Rose’s with an Oakridge Zinfandel, a bottle of Vouvray Chenin Blanc, and a Calvijo Gran Reserva Rioja thrown in to the mix. The prices at Total Wine are higher than Trader Joe’s but their selection is much greater. Today the discount was 15% on wines of greater than $10.00, which all of our wines were. We also bought a 12 pack of Negra Modelo for $13.49.
Since we had three boxes of beer, wine, and whiskey in the back of the truck we decided to drive home instead of Costco and go to Costco tomorrow.
We took a nap until 4:00 and then rode the tandem to the Nature Center and back home.
We decided to eat the PPI Pork in tomatillo sauce. We discussed a vegetable and I mentioned carrots, so I went to the fridge in the garage to fetch the carrots and discovered the six ears of corn I had bought at Sprouts on Wednesday. I filled a pot half full of water and put in on to boil and peeled and sliced five carrots and ½ of a red onion. I then went to the garden and picked five stalks of oregano and removed the leaves and chopped about 1/3 cup of them. Then Suzette fetched the cilantro from the fridge and blanched the carrots. I chopped about 1/3 cup of them also while Suzette shucked and boiled the six ears of corn. Suzette then shaved the kernels off three ears of corn and sautéed the corn, carrots, cilantro, and oregano in 2 T. of butter to mix their flavors and heated the PPI rice. She the plated pasta bowls with 1/3 each of rice, vegetables and the Pork stew.
We drank Negra Modelos with dinner and agreed that this dinner equaled anything we ate in Mexico on our recent trip. I drizzled a few drops of Cholula Chili Sauce on my dish and mixed it in and thought it added a pleasing warmth of chili flavor to the dish.
We were satisfied although Suzette had a few spoonfuls of vanilla ice cream with her delicious rhubarb/strawberry compote.
The combination of nutritious food and exercise in the last few days has me feeling better.
Bon Appetit
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