June 1, 2022 Brunch - Steak and Egg Burritos. Dinner - East Ocean - Roasted Duck Egg Rolls, and Fried Tofu with Mixed Vegetables

June 1, 2022 Brunch - Steak and Egg Burritos. Dinner - East Ocean - Roasted Duck Egg Rolls, and Fried Tofu with Mixed Vegetables

At around 9:30 we decided to make steak and egg burritos. Suzette Diced the PPI steak, sliced some yellow onion, diced 5 Shishito peppers, and whisked three eggs. I sliced one mushroom into thin slices.  

She sautéed the meat and other ingredients and then added the eggs.

Soon we had our filling and it only required toasting a flour tortilla over the open gas flame of one of the stove burners for a minute and filling the tortilla with the mixture.  I doused mine with Cholula hot sauce and drank a cup of Earl Grey tea with it.  Suzette made a Bloody Mary.

We both work at home on Wednesdays.  Suzette went for parts for her Center and our garden in the morning.

I worked all morning and until 3:30 on a filing in a complex case.

At 3:30 we drove to the bank so I could get my notary application notarized and then to the post office to post it.

We then drove to East Ocean Restaurant at 3601 Carlisle and ordered 2 egg rolls, 1/2 Roasted Duck and Fried Tofu and Mixed Vegetables.

The egg rolls came first blisteringly hot from the deep fryer. We were hungry so we immediately each took one and dipped into the saucer of sweet and sour sauce and ate them disregarding their heat and grease.

Soon afterward the fried tofu and mixed vegetables came with a container of boiled rice.  I love this dish and today’s version seemed better than ever with an abundance of brownish mandarin sauce and softer tofu.  The vegetable mixture contain fresh snow peas, broccoli, celery, bok Choy, onion, and canned mushrooms, bamboo shoot slices, baby corn, and water chestnuts. It is a great way to eat your vegetables.

Finally, the chef personally brought us the platter with the roasted duck.  Again today the duck seemed better than ever. The skin seemed crispier and the sauce of black tea, soy, and five spice seemed be sweetened with a bit of sugar.  This is my favorite duck dish in Albuquerque and at $17.99 a bargain.

We boxed 1/2 of the duck and 1/3 of the tofu and mixed vegetables to go. So these two dishes will provide two excellent meals.

We then drove to Costco to buy gas and then to Lowe’s to buy milk before returning home around 5:45.

We settled in with cocktails and watched some news and then game one of the Western Conference finals of the Stanley Cup in which the NY Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Lightening 6 to 2, and then a bit of Nova about sending rockets to rendezvous with meteors to test their soil composition.

Suzette made us vanilla ice cream sundaes with chocolate syrup and several of her wonderful homemade maraschino cherries for an evening snack.

Suzette went to bed at 9:00 and I stayed up to watch another Nova program on the Rescue of the trapped British and French armies on the beach at Dunkirk in 1940 and then blogged this.

Bon Appetit