June 14, 2020 Lunch – Fish Tacos. Dinner – Chicken Taco

Today was more a shopping day than an eating day.

I started at 9:30 by toasting two slices of bagel and spreading cream cheese on them and garnishing them with slices of onion and Gravad Lax and then cutting the tops with capers.

 At 10:00 we drove to Costco.  Suzette had to buy cleaning supplies for her three assisted living buildings plus regular items for snacks such as grapes, strawberries, and frozen cherries.  We bought a few things for ourselves such as brie cheese, mozzarella cheese, string beans, asparagus and mushrooms.

We also nought fresh Halibut and rockfish.

We then drove to a Gruet but it was closed.  We then drove to north Corrales to deliver a painting to Ari for cleaning.

After that we stopped at the new Sprouts store on the way home where we bought a salmon tail, 2 lb. of scallops, an Aji Tuna steak, three kinds of melons, a head of cabbage, Roma tomatoes, avocados, tortillas, pita bread, and green onions.

We returned home after 1:00 and very hungry.  Suzette suggested a series of fish meals: making fish tacos for lunch, Grilled Halibut for dinner, Sashimi tomorrow evening, and using all the remaining fish in a tomato and garlic soup Tuesday night.

Suzette shredded about ¼ of the head of cabbage into long strips and diced some onion and put it into a bowl.  I then added mayo and pickle relish and the juice of ½ lime to complete the cole slaw and sliced an avocado while she chopped three rockfish fillets and coated them with flour, salt, and pepper and fried them in about 1/3 inch of heated canola oil and heated 8 corn tortillas in a damp paper towel in the microwave and sliced a tomato.

I fetched two Estrella Jalisco beers from the garage fridge.

When the fish was cooked and slightly browned we were ready.  We each put three warm tortillas on our plate and then a pile of cole slaw on each and then three pieces of fish per tortilla and then garnished the plate with tomato and avocado slices.

We carried the plates and beers to the garden table and ate our late lunch without much conversation because we were hungry.

Suzette took a nap after lunch and I watched the Colonial Golf Tournament until 4:00 and then I napped until 6:30.  When I went to the garden to pick two red rose I discovered that Suzette has awakened earlier and weeded another bed in the formal garden.

It rained yesterday and is raining again tonight.  The rainy season seems to be starting early.  The plants love it.

Suzette was not hungry for dinner, but felt the need to eat something to keep up my strength. I made a taco with one of the remaining tortillas by laying some of the cole slaw, slices of chicken breast and the remaining two slices of tomato on it.

Later we ate a scoop of pistachio ice cream on a chocolate chip cookie and I ate another with two cups of freshly brewed Earl Grey tea while watched the season five premier of Grantchester and then the first episode of a new Masterpiece Theater, Beecham.  At 10:00 Suzette went to sleep and I stayed up to blog and watch a documentary on Accorn.

It looks like tomorrow will be a down day in the market if the futures are to be believed.

Bon Appetit