We awakened around 7:30. I watched the news until 9:00 and then we made burritos with Sausage, PPI Refried Black Beans and eggs wrapped in a whole-wheat flour tortilla. We both drank Clamato juice flavored with lime juice except Suzette added Vodka, Worcestershire, and Tabasco to make hers into a Bloody Mary.
It was raining, so we ate inside and watched the news.
Suzette then went outside to work in the garden and I watched the news until 10:00.
I then read my new book club book, The Spy and the Traitor until noon.
I returned to the kitchen and sliced two leeks, amounting to about four cups of leek and four cups of baby potatoes and added 6 cups of water to cover them in a large enameled casserole with 1T. of salted 1 tsp. of Knorr dehydrated chicken stock and cooked the vegetables for 45 minutes.
While the soup was cooking we held our weekly Zoom meeting with the family, except Willy went riding his bike at Sipapu.
After the Zoom meeting Suzette emulsified the soup and added a bit more than ½ cup of heavy cream to finish the soup. I went to the garden and picked about seven or eight chives and sliced them thinly.
We ladled warm soup into bowls and garnered them with fresh sliced chives for an afternoon snack.
After the meeting we both took a long nap until after 4:00.
We decided to take a walk in the Bosque, so we drove to the parking lot at Kit Carson Park and parked and walked across Tingley Beach Rd. into the Bosque. The walk was revelatory. We saw lots of interesting birds, including a White Pelican, far up river from the normal limit of their habitat at Elephant Butte Lake and a beaver dam and beaver lodge in one of the ponds in the Bosque.
We returned home at 6:15 and watched some news of the continuing riots and looting of American cities and decided to make an Avocado stuffed with crab meat salad.
I started by mincing ½ of a medium shallot and covering it with juice of ½ lemon. I let that sit until Suzette appeared and we discussed the salad. She found a recipe for a crab salad dressing but we decided to make my usual dressing which is a combination of a mignonette, a cocktail, and a crab Louis dressing. I added about ¾ of a cup of mayonnaise, about 2 T. of catsup, and Suzette added a tsp. of 2 of horseradish to make the dressing. I the added about ½ cup of dressing to ½ Lb.of Phillips crab meat plus about 1/3 cup of chopped celery leaves and two green onions sliced thinly. I also sliced 2/3 of a cucumber, three radishes, a Roma tomato, and about five stalks of celery into 2 inch strips. Suzette tore five of six Romaine lettuce leaves and picked some micro greens. She then composed the salad with a layer of lettuce on the bottom, ½ of an avocado on top filled with crab salad and garnished with micro green leaves. I spooned the remaining dressing into a small bowl for dipping the vegetable sticks and lettuce.
Our walk in the Bosque was the highlight of the day and we decided to walk early in the morning and late at night to see the beavers when they were out in the lagoon.
We soaked in the hot tub around 9:00 for about 15 minutes to loosen the pain in our joints.
After we soaked I poured a sip of Calvados, made a cup of chai, and thawed and heated a Swedish Kafferep dessert and enjoyed a dessert course.p. As I have said before this lovely pastry is a round tube of coconut rum ganache wrapped in a piece of green marzipan and dipped in dark chocolate at both ends to seal the ends. They are frozen at IKEA but I have thaw them and stored them in the fridge. I heated one for 16 seconds to warm it and soften the chocolate.
Except for what is happening across America our day was pleasant and relaxing.
Bon Appetit
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