I worked from 4:30 until 9:00, then watched the news until 10:00.
At noon Suzette made BLT sandwiches with the last heirloom tomato, lettuce from our garden, and old smoked bacon that I had bought at Sprouts several months ago and had frozen. It crumbled in the pan when fried. Suzette suggested we fry the rest of and use it as garnish for salads. We ate dill picklesa nd I drank vegetable juice and Suzette made her traditional drank
I worked until 2:00 and then drove to El Super to replenish our produce. I bought onions 4lb./$.99, carrots 3 lb./$.99, 3 mangos for $.99, Mexican squash, vine ripe tomato clusters, limes, oranges, and Persian cucumbers were all 2 lb./$.99, 8 oz. boxes of mushrooms were $.99 each, cauliflower was $.97/lb., Mexican crema and the big beautiful asparagus were $2.29/lb., regular cucumbers were 4/$.99, and heads on shrimp were on sale for $3.99/lb.. a super day of shopping. It took me 2 hours to shop and pay and drive home
Suzette helped me unload. I watched the news and rested while Then I went to the garden and picked a handful of French radishes and peeled one regular cucumber, quartered it and sliced it and added that to the Japanese pickled vegetable bowl. I then did the same with two carrots, and the handful of radishes and added a bit of sugar to balance out the intense sourness of the rice vinegar and re-covered the bowl and placed it back in the fridge.
Then I sliced about eight or nine Persian cucumbers and added them to the jar of pickles.
At 4:00 when I returned the pot of spaghetti sauce was simmering on the stove.
At 7:30 Ssuzette began cooking dinner. She made voodles by slicing the Mexican squash into thin slices with a vegetable peeler and steaming them covered with Saran in the microwave. Then she adjusted the seasoning of the spaghetti sauce and cooked some ziti pasta.
Willy arrived at around 8:00 on his new motorcycle wearing all of his new clothing and helmet.
He decided to join us and Suzette filled pasta bowls with voodles, pasta, and spaghetti sauce. The spaghetti sauce is beginning to break down from its constituent ingredients into a uniform sauce.
Suzette opened a bottle of 2012 Origon Gran Reserva ($5.99/at Trader Joe’s. I poured Willy a glass of the PPI 2016 De Pointe Dundee Hills Pinot Noir and we ate on the patio. Soon the mosquitos found us and as soon as we finished eating we moved inside.m we drank another glass of wine and talked until 9:30, Willy said goodnight.
We made the bed and went to sleep, except I stayed up to finish this blog and drink a chai tea.
Bon Appetit
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