August 4, 2020 Lunch – PPI Shrimp and Sausage Noodle Soup and Melted Cheese Sandwiches. Dinner – Pork and White Bean Stew with tortillas and guacamole crema

August 4, 2020 Lunch – PPI Shrimp and Sausage Noodle Soup and Melted Cheese Sandwiches. Dinner – Pork and White Bean Stew with tortillas and guacamole crema

I started watching the bike race at 5:30 and at 6:30 I made breakfast of two toasted slices of bagel spread with goat cheese and layered with slices of Lax, onion, and tomato. 

 Today’s stage was a very fast pace led by the Bora team to try to put their teammate Peter Sagan back in the green jersey.  Their strategy succeeded.  No one got past them until at the sprint finish and Sagan took all the intermediate sprints to regain the green jersey.

I then walked ½ mile and stopped to talk to Barry as he was picking tomatoes to take to Taos.

When I returned I ate the PPI bowl of PPI Shrimp and Sausage Noodle Soup and made two Melted Cheese Sandwiches by toasting slices of French baguette and buttering them and adding slices of Jarlsberg cheese and slices of onion and cooking them in the microwave.

After lunch I worked on a pleading and put several of my stock positions back on.  Let’s hope the Tech meltdown is over.

I filed my pleading a couple of minutes before 5:00 and then drove to the library to return Grant and pick up The Lincoln Lawyer by Connelly.

The book club title for this month also arrived in the mail, DiMaggio, an American Knight by Durso.  So lots to read if I can tear myself away from the Tour.

Suzette came home when I returned around 5:45.  We decided to re-heat the Pork, Bean, Tomatillo sauce and Hoja Santa stew and eat it in the fresh tortillas Suzette bought today.  I made a guacamole crema with three avocados, about 3 oz.of minced onion, about 1/3 cup of Lala Mexican crema, and a couple dashes of Cholula hot sauce.

Suzette steamed and softened seven corn tortillas in a wet paper towel to soften them and we heated the stew on the stove.

Suzette fetched beers from the garage fridge and ladled bowls of stew and we made tacos by wrapping tortillas around Pork and guacamole crema and ate the rest of the stew along with them.

It was a hardy filling dinner.

After dinner we walked to the pond to look at the new crop of baby goldfish skitter around the pond as Suzette added water to it that raised the water level to submerge more vegetation/food. 

Willy came by later and ate some stew while his laundry was being washed.

We watched Las Vegas beat Vancouver in the Stanley Cup playoffs and ended the evening watching the celebration of the burning of Zozobra (gloom).

The news was all about Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic article describing how Trump disparages those in the military.  Let’s hope it sticks and Trump is shown to care only about Trump and not America.

Bon Appetit