August 31, 2020 Lunch – Shrimp Noodle Soup.  Dinner – Sashimi and Rice

I watched some of Stage 3 of the Tour de France because it was such a long Stage and switched to the business channel and checked my mail until 10:30 when it ended in a dramatic sprint finish won by Caleb McEwan

At 9:30 I ate a bowl of tropical fruit salad with granola and yogurt.

Then at 10:30 I rode five miles on my bike south.  When I returned I showered and dressed and then heated the PPI Shrimp Noodle Soup.  After the first bowl, I added the PPI shrimp scampi with all of its wonderful asparagus and Chard.

The second bowl was even better.

It was nearly 2:00 so I watched the Market close.  The DOW was down but today was the day Apple split 4 to 1 and it was bid up, resulting in a 1% gain for my portfolio. This has been the best August gain since 1986 according to the commentators.  I believe it.

I then drove to the bank and then to Costco to do some shopping.  We needed butter, eggs, Jarlsberg cheese, Pecorino-Romano cheese.  I also bought spinach, two Dungeness crabs, a salmon fillet, and three Aji tuna fillets, a bottle of Mohua New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc and a bottle of Spanish Tempranillo Reserva rated 93 points by David Suckling for under $10.00.

When I returned home at 4:30 Suzette had arrived.  I unloaded and rested for a few minutes.  Then I made teriyaki sauce (1/3 cup each of soy sauce, sake, and Aji Mirin plus 1 T. of sugar heated to put the sugar into solution) and cut the salmon fillet to the size of a gallon freezer bag.  I thawed two sea scallops and we placed the package of crabs in the sink to thaw. 

I then placed the salmon fillet in the bag and Suzette poured the teriyaki sauce into bag and sealed the bag and placed it in the fridge to marinate.  I the wrapped two of the three tuna steaks and two extra salmon steaks and put them in the freezer.  

I then made Sashimi. I sliced the tuna steak and tail section of the salmon fillet, and the two scallops.  I sliced rounds of cucumber from the Italian cucumber we bought on our trip and heated a pitcher of sake and made a cup of green tea. I put pickled ginger into a bowl and filled dipping bowls with soy sauce and prepared wasabi sauce and filled bowls with rice.

 I heated a pitcher of sake in a pot of hot water and poured tear cups of warm sake.

Suzette had not eaten lunch so she ate the container of chicken salad with a bowl of potato chips.  Therefore she did not eat much of the Sashimi.  I managed to eat most of it.  I bought the tuna and salmon because I was really in the mood for Sashimi.  I bought the crabs because we had discussed eating a meal of crab and champagne for her birthday, but we decided to not take crab on our camping trip.

After dinner I drank a cup of green tea with a piece of toasted banana nut bread Suzette’s sister Jean sent her for her birthday.

We will eat teriyaki salmon and crab for the next couple of days.

Bon Appetit