It was a full day of exploration and seafood for last full day in Mexico.
We started by making a massive omelet with eight shrimp peeled and diced into four pieces and four large mushrooms sliced plus three oz. of onion minced and two cloves of garlic minced. Suzette cooked the onion, garlic, and mushrooms in butter and then added the shrimp and finally three whipped eggs and a slice of cheese. While she was cooking the omelet she was cooking black beans in our only skillet and steaming four tortillas in a colander sitting over the bean pan. This was the most elaborate and creative cooking of the trip and the result was delicious. She plated two warmed tortillas on each plate, spread the refried black beans over the tortillas and then lay each half of the omelet on the black beans.
After breakfast we drove up the coast the six or seven miles to San Francisco, only to find out that its Farmers’ Market was Tuesday, not Saturday.
We decided to go exploring further north, s we drove another 25 km. Up the coast to Rincon de Guayabitas and Ayala that share one side of a long crescent beach with two small rocky islands standing in front.
We walked the beach and looked for oysters and headed back to Sayulita. It was around 2:00, so we decided to stop in San Francisco at one of the beach restaurants that serves oysters. Unfortunately, neither served oysters today but we sat down at the one on the north side of the main road named Las Palmas to eat a light lunch. I ordered a mixed coctel of scallops and octopus. A coctel is seafood in a mixture of water, cucumber, chili sauce, onion, lime juice, and tomato. It is usually chilled but today’s was not so, we added ice to chill it. I loved the fresh cooked octopus and sea scallops. The large goblet was 280 pesos and worth it. We could not finish it and asked the waitress t put the remainder into a to go cup and put it in the cooler and took it home and added it to the seafood stew.
Suzette got an even more interesting dish. She ordered a raw tuna tostada topped guacamole, diced tuna, and finally fried onion threads.
She loved it.We then drove back to our condo in a Sayulita and rested until 5:00, when we showered and dressed for dinner and drove to the center. There is a shop near the plaza that sells decorated plastic baskets suzette has bought before. Suzette said the women in the water aerobics class were interested in having a plastic bags to carry their wet suits in, so Suzette bought 8 small and 4 or five large bags for a total of 400 pesos (about $23..00).
We then walked to the beach and sat at a table and watched the sunset on the coast north of a Sayulita while we shared a margarita.
After the sunset at 6:30 we walked the two blocks from the beach to the Barracuda restaurant and met T.R. and Linda for dinner. We think Barracuda is the best restaurant in Sayulita. The food is first quality and it is prepared and presented creatively. T.R. oRdered Chicken Fettucine Alfredo and Linda oRdered the fish of the day, which was a large grilled fillet of mahi mahi served on a base of mashed sweet and regular potato. Suzette ordered a shrimp and lobster cake crowned with a large sautéed shrimp. I ordered tuna tartare on an avocado cake. The tuna was Aji and the avocado cake turned out to be diced avocado molded into a round circle empty in the center except for several halved cherry tomatoes and decorated with thin slices of baby bell peppers and a black piece of of grilled sea fan?.
I asked for and was served a “set up for sushi”, a plate with a small bowl of soy and some chopped onion, a small ball of wasabi, several strips of red pickled ginger, and a small pile of pickled red onion. Just what I wanted. I loved my dish, dipping the cubes of tuna, ginger, and avocado into the soy and wasabi mixture. This was the best and most creative dish in a restaurant on the trip. Suzette liked her shrimp and lobster cake, but said it gave her a little heartburn later.
We enjoyed our last night in Sayulita, with T.R. and Linda and I suggested that we meet in Oaxaca in April for Easter.
We were joined by a couple from Vancouver around 8:00 who have rented the their casita in Villa Bali and at 8:30 we said good night and drove back to the condo.
As we left the restaurant I stopped at two vendors selling pastries and bought a brownie for 20 pesos.
When we returned to the condo we had a nightcap of rum with the rest of the chocolate cake and truffle Suzette bought from the music man yesterday on the beach and a portion of tonight’s brownie.
We then went to bed and watched two more episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and then went to sleep.
Bon Appetit
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