October 6, 2021. Breakfast - Bagels with Gravad Lax. Lunch - Padilla’s Family Restaurant. Dinner - Toast with Pineapple preserves and Jarlsberg cheese
It may not look like it but today’s breakfast and dinner were strongly influenced by Swedish Cuisine as I learned it.
The core of breakfast was the Gravad lax slices on the two slices of bagel smeared with cream cheese and garnished with slices of red onion and tomato. They eat lots of Gravad lax in Sweden because salmon are plentiful and the dill grows wild.
Dinner was a little more obscurely Swedish until you understand that I was a recent graduate of law school and lived for a while in student housing in 1970 where about four to six students would share a kitchen. The students I lived with drank a lot of Earl Grey tea and ate a lot of toasted bread smeared with jam and garnished with slices of Jarlsberg cheese.
So, tonight after the huge meal of Mexican I was not very hungry and there was a buttered slice of a French baguette left from our crab dinner. I decided to toast the toast to warm the bread and butter. When the butter began to bubble I spread pineapple marmalade on it and garnished it with slices of Jarlsberg cheese, just as I used to do in Sweden and ate it with a cup of Earl Grey tea.
Lunch turned out to be a meal of discovery. We took Javid to eat at Padilla’s. When we started to order we discovered that Javid was a vegetarian and all the food at Padilla’s contains lard. There is even lard in the Sopapilla dough. Who knew? I also learned that Padilla’s has a method of creating a vegetarian meal. They made Javid a guacamole tostada with lettuce and baked him two rolled cheese enchiladas with no sauce.
I ordered the Chile Relleno plate with beans, which I used to think was vegetarian but now have discovered that both the Relleno, the sauce, and the beans contain lard. I guess that bit of pig gives the dish more flavor. Suzette ordered an a la carte chili Relleno and was on her best behavior by not ordering a Negra Modelo.
After lunch Suzette and Javid drove to Los Lunas to tour the Center and I reviewed a lease and then at 4:00 rested by watching Ari Melber’s MSNBC news show.
Suzette did not return until after 6:00.
I made a mojito at 5:30 to ease the pressure of the Mexican lunch with some carbonated soda water.
We watched TV and then went to bed at 10:00.
The big news was the decision by the federal judge in the lawsuit brought by the Justice Department to enjoin enforcement of Texas’ recent law banning abortions after 6 weeks.
The other big news was The Dems forcing the Republicans to allow a vote on raising the debt ceiling. The Republicans relented apparently to prevent a modification of the filibuster rule.
The good news was that the Market went from negative to positive with the debt ceiling news.
Bon Appetit
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