March 26, 2021 Lunch - Smoked Pork Egg Foo Young. Dinner - Gyoza and Chili Relleno and beans

 March 26, 2021 Lunch - Smoked Pork Egg Foo Young. Dinner - Gyoza and Chili Relleno and beans

Today I spent a lot of time in the morning playing in the stock market and in the end everything was good. The market moved up from the open but by mid morning it started down and I sold my Apple shares. It kept going down for a while but then turn up again and I bought back the same number of shares.  The two trades netted me cash of over $1000.  

But then after lunch Apple started down again I toyed with the idea and selling again but decided to hold my position, which was a good decision because Apple and the rest of the market surged upward in the last hour and from being down over 80 points the NASDAQ ended up almost 163 points and the Dow ended up over 450 points.  So I netted a respectable gain on the day of 1.25%.  As I went to bed at this evening at 8:30 p.m. the futures point to a higher open on Monday. So maybe the big tech sell off is ending.

I ate a bowl of granola, milk, yogurt, and tropical fruit salad at 9:30 a.m.

At noon I decided to avoid lots of carbs and decided to make a stir fry/ egg foo young.  I diced the smoked pork and about 1 T. each of ginger and garlic and three large stalks of Bok Choy (dividing the firm white section pieces from the green leave sections), a slice of red onion, a large white mushroom, two stalks of asparagus, and the white section of a leek.

I heated 2 T. of peanut oil in medium high heat and cooked the minced ginger and garlic in an instant.  Then I added all the ingredients except the pork and green leaves and cooked them for several minutes until the firm ingredients softened.

I whisked three eggs with 1 T. of soy, 2 T. of Chinese cooking wine, and 1 tsp. of sesame oil. 

Then I added the pork and Bok choy green leaves and mixed them in and cooked them for a minute.

Then I added the seasoned egg mixture and let the mixture cook for several minutes until the egg mixture set on the bottom.  I do not stir fry, literally I lift in sections.  The large amount of ingredients in the wok presented four sections based on the size of my ladle, so I flipped the mass of ingredients in four sections, reassembling it so the uncooked top was united on the bottom that was facing the wok surface.  

After the flipped top had cooked to a light brown color I flipped the mass in four sections again to brown the bottom and add additional firmness to both sides.  Then It was ready to eat. In the end it resembled a large omelet divided into four sections.

I made a made a cup of green tea and lifted one section of the massive egg foo young into a plate and ate it.  I was hungry so I ate a second section and then filled a plastic container with the remaining 1/2.

After lunch I watched the market take off with glee.  This was the turn in the market I have been waiting for, where all the big tech companies’ began to move back up in response to the expectation that the economic stimulus combined with the increased number of vaccinations, would jump start the economy.  I hope I am right.  The early indication was the turnaround of Moderna and Johnson and Johnson shares and the upsurge of all of the reopening stocks, like casino and travel stocks and raw material stocks.

Today, the first day when 3.4 million Americans received vaccinations, may be remembered in history as when the U.S. economy began the slow recovery from the pandemic.

If I were Biden I would send as many vials of vaccine to the Florida beaches and vaccinate as many young Spring Break revelers as possible.

At 3:00 I took a shower and dressed and when Suzette came home we drove to Costco to shop.  We didn’t need much but we needed to replenish the basics, flour, sugar, olive oil, envelopes, coffee, dishwashing tablets and liquid, and frozen berries for Willy.

It was my exercise for the day as we pushed the cart around Costco.

We picked up a rack of 8 lamb Rib-lets for dinner Saturday night and two bottles of wine, including a new 90+ point rated Cotes Du Rhone red and a new Rioja Reserva.

We arrived home at 4:30 and I was hungry. As I put Willy’s  berries into the freezer I saw a bag of Ling Ling pot stickers and grabbed it. I followed the instructions for cooking, which is to coat the bottom of a skillet with oil, then I placed nine frozen pot stickers on the oil and added 1/2 cup of water and turned the heat on and covered the skillet with our wok cover and steamed the dumplings for ten minutes until the water evaporated.  I then added a few dashes of sesame oil and waited for the pot stickers to brown.  Then I turned them onto their other two sides in succession and lightly brown all three sides. 

While the pot stickers were cooking I made a dipping sauce by mixing 1/2 tsp. of chili oil with 1/3 cup of soy and added slices of two thinly sliced green onions.

When the dumplings were ready Suzette ate two and then said she wanted to eat the PPI chili relleno and beans.  So I finished the dumplings, while she added some meatloaf to the chili Relleno and bean container and re-heated it in the microwave and we drank the two Trader Jose dark Mexican beers she had fetched.

Before we knew it, our snack had turned into dinner.

We were both tired so we went to bed at 8:30 after Washington Week.

I awakened at 4:00 and blogged.

Bon Appetit