May 13, 2019 Lunch – Salad Nicoise. Dinner – PPI Blue Corn Enchiladas with Mango Salsa

May 13, 2019 Lunch – Salad Nicoise. Dinner – PPI Blue Corn Enchiladas with Mango Salsa

After a big day of food yesterday I tried to get back to a more normal diet today.

For breakfast. I ate yogurt, granola, and tropical fruit salad.

I worked until 1:00, when I went t the garden and picked a basket of lettuces.  I added some of the PPI grilled tuna from last night, a tomato, some cucumber, two sliced green onions, sliced potatoes, and some thyme flavored green olives for a very Nicoise like salad dressed with Ceaser dressing

After lunch I sliced ¾ of a cucumber and five radishes.

I dozed from 3:30 until Suzette awakened me a bit after 4:00.

We decided to go to El Super to shop for produce.  There were fabulous prices as usual: vine ripened tomato clusters, Persian cucumbers, pineapples, and papayas were all $.50/lb., avocados were 2 for $.89, cucumbers were 4 for $.99: onions were 3 lb. for $.99, a 1.5 quart container of Dreyer’s vanilla ice cream for $4.29, altafaula mangoes were 2 for $.99,  etc.  The most expensive fruit was limes for $.99/lb. We also bought 20 lb. of long grain rice for $8.99.

After we returned home and unloaded we made drinks and went to the garden and planted the plants Willy had given Suzette yesterday. It was a lovely evening and we enjoyed sitting at the northeast corner of the back yard and looking at the fish swimming in the pond and looking at the setting sun filtering through the backyard vegetation.

When we returned to the house I made mango salsa with three avocados diced, two tomatoes, 3 oz. of chopped onion, juice of 1 ½ limes, 2 oz. of finely diced Poblano chili, three mangos diced and ¼ cup of chopped cilantro.

Suzette then heated some PPI Blue Corn Enchiladas and put the crema on the table beside the mango salsa.

Suzette drank a Negra Modelo and I made a limeade with lime juice, sugar, and water and ice.

At 8:00 after the first AntiquesRoadshow segment of the evening Suzette made an ice cream Sunday for each of us with a scoop of the vanilla ice cream , a pear she poached yesterday in Jansen’s apple dessert wine, and a little red wine to provide a pinkish color and some quince compote..

The pears were unusually firm even after being poached, but with a little extra ice cream we were able to finish the pears.

We went to bed at 9:00 after watching both Antique Roadshow segments and some of Beto O’Rourke’s interview with a Rachel Maddow.

Bon Appetit