March 1, 2025 Breakfast - Leftover Mary and Tito’s Enchilada. Lunch - Leftover Crazy Fish Chirashi. Dinner - Mazaya Cafe

March 1, 2025 Breakfast - Leftover Mary and Tito’s Enchilada. Lunch - Leftover Crazy Fish Chirashi. Dinner - Mazaya Cafe

This was a good day of work and food. At 3:30 I awakened and sorted tax documents and flipped the Gravad lax and went back to bed at 5:45.

I woke up again at 8:00 and worked at my desk and

the Florence Simon Trust tax schedule.

I drove to DHL but it was closed.  When I returned at 10:30 we drove to El Super and shopped for groceries. 

After we returned home and put away the groceries, Suzette went shopping at the thrift store and I ate lunch.  I ate the leftover 1/3 of the Crazy Fish Chirashi I ate on Thursday for lunch plus the belly slices of fresh salmon I bought at Smith’s on Thursday.  It was an awesome lunch with a few added pickled daikon slices. The fresh salmon tasted better than the two day old slices of Aji tuna, ultra white tuna, yellowtail, salmon and octopus and the sushi rice coagulated from being fluffy.

I made a cup of green tea.

After lunch I napped from 2:45 until 3:45.

Then I showered and dressed and at 5:20 we drove drove to UNM for the NM Symphony program. The first piece was Samuel Barber’s Adagio for strings and the second item , Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 played by Michelle Cano blew everyone away. It was among the best programs of the year. We stayed for Copeland’s score for Billy the Kid ballet but did not care for it.

After the concert we walked to Mazaya Cafe on Harvard that rates a 4.6 rating.  It was a Greek cafe. Suzette ordered a beer and I ordered a black cherry cider. Then Suzette ordered a Chicken Shawarma Platter and I ordered a Gyros Platter. Then Suzette platter included a large pile of saffron flavored basmati rice, a pickle and pickled turnip, and a slice of tomato and cucumber with a bowl of tzatziki on my gyro platter and a Mayo and yogurt garlic sauce on Suzette’s platter   We asked and were served an additional bowl of pickles and pickled turnips and when we asked for to go boxes the waiter brought each a small container filled with sauce. The service and hospitality was wonderful. 

We arrived home at 9:21 in time to watch Bill Maher who had Fareed Zacharia and Rahim Emmanuel as his guests and wonderful insights into Trump.

Then at 10:00 we watched Have I Got News for You, which is our new favorite show.  Tonight’s guests included US Congresswomen Jasmine Crockett from Texas. They worked in a question about her. What did the only democrat to comment on Elon Musk say? The answer was Jasmine Crockett who when asked , What would like to tell Elon Musk? Said, “Fuck off.”

We went to bed at 11:00 after a lovely day of food and music.

Bon Appetit