Friday Food 01-03-20

This is a food memory from February 2013 at a now departed restaurant near Visions Art Museum in San Diego.  The location has changed restaurants a number of times and nothing seems to last very long.  Too bad, I really liked their seafood sandwiches.  

Four of us ordered the yellowtail (tuna) sandwich which was delicious.  It came with sliced raw mushroom and a pile of greens including this one I have never seen before.  One of the ladies identified it as tatsoi.  I looked it up online and found it is also called spinach mustard , spoon mustard, 

or rosette bok choy, it is an Asian variety of Brassica rapa grown for greens.

The flip side is this lovely grey-green color.  To me it tastes spicy, somewhat like wild mustard greens.

Here is the cut side of the yellowtail sandwich on chibatta bread.  Yellowtail on the bottom, lettuce, tomato, slightly sauteed thin-sliced onions and a light sauce - like thin mayonnaise.
I would certainly order it again..  and again....!

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KoKo finds a glove 01-02-20

Or is it a super hero's whole hand?

Spooky stuff.

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New Year's Day Open House 01-01-20

There, I have typed the 2020 date for the first time.  Really hard to make the change every year, but some how going from 19 to 20 seems harder.  I have sticky notes to help! 

KoKo and I drove down to San Clemente to the Nancy and Bud New Year's Day Open House.  We have been for quite a few years now.  Nancy's grandchildren are always glad to have a few hours with KoKo.  And he eats up all the attention, petting, and holding he can get.  We are both a little wiped out this evening.  

The food is always so special.  Lots of things I have not tried before and always enjoy.  Just have to watch out for very spicy dishes.  I love them, but my stomach objects.  

 The house is on the hillside above San Clemente and looks out at the Pacific Ocean. 

Besides visiting and eating some people play games, I don't know what this one is.  But they were enjoying it. 

The food was outstanding, mostly Japanese, but the Mac and Cheese was also great. 

Someone gave KoKo a mouse toy (because it is the year of the rat) and he chewed on it most of the way home. You can just see it at the bottom of the picture. 

This is our view of the ocean from our parking spot.   Beautiful blue sky and lots of sun reflection. 

Hope you all had a great New Year's beginning. 

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Happy New Year 12-31-19

Oh dear, Now my fingers have to learn a new year AND a new decade.  Each year it is harder for me to re-train them.  

I am struggling to not get sick, but tonight my thread is sore and I am just wiped out.   Hope to be up to driving to San Clemente for the annual open house.  Even KoKo will go since he spent his first couple years at Nancy Ota's house. She is the one who taught him his good manners. 

Thanks for checking in with me throughout the year, I hope to make it through another with lots of useless news to post. 

Wishing you each a special 2020. 

Love, Del and KoKo

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The last of this year's Christmas decor 12-30-19

There weren't quite as many outdoor decorations this year, but more of the blow-up images - Santa, Snowmen, reindeer, dogs in colorful "clothing", and a repeat of the Christmas blow-up dragon.  There is one house with a variety of blow-ups, old fashioned wire figures, and this really peculiar dog "statue".

Winter Blooms 12-29-19

Autumn, Winter, and Spring sort of flow into each other here in Southern California.  And plants from all over the planet keep their 'schedule" from their native land.  So, some plants bloom in mid-winter.  Here are a couple in my neighborhood. 

Just one of many varieties of narcissus.

Lovely fragrance. 

And now it is covered with seed pods. 

But we still have autumn leaves.  Liquidamber or sweet gum. 

Bradford Pear. 

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