July 1, 2023 Brunch - Lax and Bagels. Snack - Hard Bread with Slices of Gouda and Salami Dinner - Lamb Pita Pocket Sandwiches

 July 1, 2023 Brunch - Lax and Bagels. Snack - Hard Bread with Slices of Gouda and Salami  Dinner - Lamb Pita Pocket Sandwiches 

Suzette worked on the van to get it ready for our trip to Santa Fe tomorrow in the morning and I helped her drain the water tank. The camper is finally feeling functional and looking good.

I was watching stage 1 of the Tour de France, which was amazing because  English twins, Simon and Adam Yates, won the Stage and placed second, although they rode for different teams.

At around 9:00 I toasted four bagel slices, two everything and two caraway. I spread them with cream cheese and garnished them with slices of Gravad lax, red onion, and tomato slices for Suzette’s slices. We each put a few capers on our slices and Suzette poured us glasses of orange juice.

After breakfast I made tropical fruit salad and Suzette made curtains for the van.

We started  watching the third round of the Senior Open, which was fascinating. Bernard Langer was in the lead and held it all day with two Wisconsin players in second and third place.  The championship was played at a Wisconsin Golf Course that the two Wisconsin players probably were very familiar with the course.  At 2:00 I buttered two slices of rye hard bread with butter and slices of Gouda and salami and leaves of lettuce. Then Suzette and I shared a bowl of fruit salad with yogurt.

After lunch we laid down and watched the golf match.

Bernard Langer who stayed in first place all day is 65 and will set the all-time record of 46 PGA tournament win if he wins.  Currently he is tied with Hale Irwin at 45 for the most wins.

After the golf round Suzette and I paid our credit card bill and we called BIlly and Elaine to confirm dates of trips we are taking, our going to Spain and Elaine coming to Albuquerque as the jumping off spot for a hiking trip to Colorado.

We then hung the curtains Suzette made in the van and made the bed in the van and then made dinner. I sliced a grilled lamb chop and tomato, and fetched the tzatziki, pickled turnips, red onion, green olives, labni, Tabouli, Moroccan dried olives and pitas. Suzette heated the pitas in a paper towel in the microwave and Suzette sautéed the lamb slices and one or two red onion slices.  We filled pitas with the ingredients until Suzette tasted a black olive that was slightly moldy and stopped eating. I opened a bottle of La Granja Spanish Tempranillo and drank a glass with my pita pockets and enjoyed dinner. I will get fresh black olives and some No. 1 Bulgar and make a proper Tabouli when we return from our trip to Santa Fe.

Instead she grilled the steak we had thawed today for steak salad tomorrow evening and ate some of it.

After dinner I sliced the steak and Suzette bagged it for the trip.

We watched soccer, Guadeloupe beat Cuba, and some of a lackluster March between Canada and Guatemala and switched to Death in Paradise during which I went to sleep.

Suzette made up for the moldy olive by eating some ice cream later.

At 10:30 I drank a glass of Kefir and went to bed and blogged and Suzette worked on staffing issues and then went to bed.

Stage 2 of the Tour starts at 4:00 a.m. (noon in Spain), so i need to get to bed early.

Bon Appetit.