August 24, 2018 Lunch – PPI Vietnamese Miso Noodle Soup. Dinner – Amore.

August 24, 2018 Lunch – PPI Vietnamese Miso Noodle Soup. Dinner – Amore.

I awakened at 6:30 when Suzette’s alarm went off for her dental appointment.  I watched news until 7:45 as the market took off like a scared rabbit.  At various points in the day my portfolio was up $12,000, but by the end of the end of the week sell off I ended up almost $11,000 to a new all time high and meeting my estimated gain for the year of over 8% for the year.   And that was after giving up 1% on my ill advised sale of Apple for a week.  I drank a nut of coffee hot chocolate during the morning news.

Then at 7:30 I ate a bowl of granola, milk, blueberries, and Trader Joe’s French Village yogurt (which seems to have more live Bulgaricus yeast in it, after which I rode to Rio Bravo.

For lunch I heated the PPI Vietnamese Miso Noodle Soup with the addition of a couple more mini-Chicken dumplings, the last of the Napa cabbage, and the green top of a cipolini onion sliced thinly.

It 4:00 I ate a toasted piece of whole wheat bread with peanut butter and honey and a cup of tea.

Suzette arrived early and agreed to go to the opening at the UNM Art Museum and then dinner at Amore.

On the way to the Museum we stopped at the Candy store to check the gate repair and Walgreen’s for more bandages and Aquaphor for the trip to Europe.

When we arrived at Popejoy, there was a real art opening going on with a D.J. spinning rap music and a catered buffet of cold pasta salad, a garbanzo, marinated artichoke leaves, kalamata olive, and fresh greens salad, and small tostadas piled high with duck confit.  We each took a bowl of the green salad and a duck confit tostada, which were both very lovely and then went into the art museum.  There were two shows: one of works from UNM’s permanent collection, which was a teaching exhibit, presented in periods and movements. It was nice, but thin with only one piece by most artists, except for Bruce Conner who did dark found object art as best I could tell, which we both hated. We then walked downstairs to the Flight exhibit by a local artist who had made a large installation piece with flying bird mobiles.  We did not know the artist or her many friends, who showed up for her opening, so we walked through and then left.

We then drove to Amore at 6:45 where we said hello to Diane and Jim, who were finishing dinner and on their way to a movie.

We quickly decided to order a Burrata ($13.00), which was a fresh made mozzarella shell stuffed with a truffle cream filling served with slices of bread and tomato. We also ordered the Calamari appetizer ($12.00), which was fried breaded calamari rings, probably prepared by Sysco served on a bed of baby arugula with a ramekin of aioli.

We tried several wines.  Suzette settled on a Gavi white and I chose a glass of Chianti red.

We discussed our lunch for the polo match tomorrow and decided to take home some of the burrata to combine with some of the fresh tomatoes from Suzette garden at the Center.

When we returned home Suzette steamed some asparagus and marinated them with balsamic and olive oil and some fresh tarragon.

Suzette also made egg salad with the three hard boiled eggs we had in the fridge with mayo and finely chopped celery and onion.

I chilled a bottle of Gruet Rose Sauvage.

At 10:00 we went to bed.

Bon Appetit