September 13, 2022 Lunch - Mariscos La Playa in Espanola. Dinner - BBQ Pulled Pork, Baked Beans, and Guacamole

I woke up at 6:30 and studied the market, which went Down 485 points when the inflation numbers were released.

Since we were going to Colorado I put my positions back on Apple and Square with fewer shares because the market had risen since I sold in June.

What happened after I put my positions back on was extraordinary.  The Dow dropped 1300 points for the worst day in the last two years.  I got 1/3 of the drop but not all of it.  Alas.

I ate granola, milk, blueberries, and yogurt for breakfast.

We packed and left at 11:00.

We tried to eat at Gabriel’s north of Santa Fe, but it was closed on Tuesday, today.

We drove on the Espanola and Suzette found a restaurant that looked promising, Mariscos La Playa.  The menu had all the normal dishes plus several interesting dishes we had not seen at other restaurant.  For example we ordered Mariscada Caliente, that was a mixture of fish, octopus, mussels, scallops, and shrimp sautéed in a tomato sauce and served on a large raised platter with rice, fried potatoes and an avocado slice with lettuce plus corn tortillas on the side.  When we were seated the waitress brought us bowls of pico de Gallo, refried beans, and pico in a white avocado Mayo sauce with a basket of chips and Suzette ordered us two Negra Modelos on tap.

We were hungry and ate the basket of chips mostly with the beans before our food arrived.

This where I discovered this is a true Mexican restaurant. Suzette asked the waitress how many tortillas were served with the Mariscada.

When the waitress said, “Five”, Suzette asked for six corn tortillas and I asked for more beans and chips.

The waitress brought all three. At no extra charge.  Service with a smile, so typical of a Mexican restaurant 

The Mariscada was tasty although I noticed that it used that seafood mix you can buy at the Mexican markets that apparently is frozen and not fresh because old seafood causes my lower lip to swell. Which is what happened today.

We each filled three corn tortillas with the fish mixture and beans without being able to finish the platter of food, so we filled a takeout box with the leftover seafood.

I then drove to Pilar where Suzette took over and drove to Fort Garland and. Drove the last hour to the cabin in Cuchara where BIlly was heating BBQ Pulled Pork and a pot of baked beans.  Billy also made guacamole and grilled the four ears of corn we brought for a lovely dinner.

We opened the 2013 Clos de Val Cabernet Sauvignon we brought to sip before dinner and suzette, Billy and I drank it with dinner while Elaine drank a Negra Modelo

We went to bed at 8:30 after a busy day.

Bon Appetit