August 23, 2018 Lunch – Mapo Dofu on Couscous. Dinner – Avocados stuffed with Chicken Salad and shrimp and Peach and Blueberry Cobbler

I ate a 1/3 slice of an everything bagel toasted and smeared with cream cheese and garnished with slices of onion and Lax and capers.

I took Suzette’s broken jewelry to a jewelry repair shop at 11:30.

When I got home I heated some Mapo Dofu on couscous.  After a quick lunch I went to a mediation downtown.

After the mediation I drove to El Super and bought yellow onions, lemons, fresh lychee nuts, peaches, cherries, 2 Cucumbers, and a pasilla chili.  This is the first time. Have seen fresh lychee fruit in the stores in the U.S., although I had seen it in Mexico, where it is grown.

I went home and peeled and sliced the 6 peaches and then pitted the 2 lb. of cherries and doused the cherries with cognac and Grand Marnier.

Suzette came home at 5:15 with a container of chicken salad and we made dinner.  I diced the 6 or 7 PPI shrimp and added them and a bit of mayonnaise and a few drops of fresh lime juice to the chicken salad, while Suzette halved the 2 large avocados and removed them from their shells and filled them with the chicken and shrimp salad and garnished the plate with tomato slices.  Here is a picture.

The avocados were perfect, creamy but not blemished.  I loved dinner.

Suzette wanted a good bottle of white wine, so we opened a chilled bottle of King’s Estate Pinot Gris which was fruity with just a touch of sweetness (Costco $12.99?).
Before dinner Suzette also made a peach and blueberry cobbler using Laura Williams’ jiffy cobbler recipe.

Here is the recipe:

About the time we finished our chicken salad stuffed avocado the bell for the cobbler timer range and we served ourselves bowls of cobbler, mine drenched with whipped cream and a Suzette’s with heavy cream.

Harari in Sapiens described the tendency of people to gorge on sweets as hardening back to the pre-
agriculture period of sapiens when the only sugar in our hunter gather diets was mature fruit.  Since the production of mature fruit was so rare, we would gorge on it whenever we found it, less some other animal, like a raccoon or group of baboons find it and strip the tree.  That is what it felt like tonight as we uncontrollably devoured bowls of cobbler in a re-creation of that early sapien gorging on mature peaches and blueberries.

To extend the sapien desire to gorge on mature fruit concept a bit further, After dinner Suzette poached a bag of figs we had gathered from trees in our neighborhood in cognac, Grand Marnier and some of the Pinot Gris.

Bon Appetit