We are back in patisserie country, Did I say Ted gets up in the morning and takes the 0 minute stroll to the bakery down the road for the most heavenly croissants and pain au chocolate? My hero. They also make wonderful coconut macaroons like the ones in England, not the now very popular macaroons which are small and hard sandwiches, with cream in between.
I tried replicating the shrimps in honey sauce with walnuts from Trader Joe, but they simply were not as good as the ones at the PF Chang. We are finally able to eat dinner on our patio every night.
Yesterday we found one of the great local Mexican cantinas, open for breakfast and lunch and no beer license. Hatch green peppers are legend and that's what they use to make their Chile sauce. Poco & Mom make everything from scratch. I ordered my fav, Chile rellenos, sauce on side, tons of rice and refried beans. Ted ordered his fav, tortilla soupy, loaded with lots of other things too. Ted loved their hot sauces which he could enjoy without my asking him to taste everything, as I really can't take the hot sauces any more. The stuffed chiles had a lovely tang but didn't bring out the blisters on my lips!
I have also found premixed margaritas by the 1.75 liter bottle so fill up my single serve bottles and find spots in the fridge for them easily. Ah yes, got watch the consumption of those I guess...
There is new management at the RV park here in Tucson and they have sand. Blasted the 4 pickleball courts in front of our unit last week. Glad were were not there then. The lines went in this week and a horde of foaming at the mouth players are lined up there every day to use them.
Lots of people i the park also cycle around, some oldies in tricycles, but they are still moving. The afternoons are now 33-36 and it's impossible to think of doing much other than sit in and at the pool. Ted sits in the shade to read and do his Sodukos but we have ot leave the AC on in the RV as it is soon over 99, the highest temp that our thermostat will show!
Without TV we can't get news but I am following the tennis at Indian Wells in Palm Springs with interest. It's amazing that 3 of 4 top players all met in the early rounds. Murray didn't even make it out of the blocks! But the old man Federer is the only one left in. I can get some good replays on wifi, if slowly sometimes.
I can also download snippet from MET opera, and love The Audition, which illustrates how difficult it is to go from the 1800 applicants to winners of the MET opera prize. The 2007 winner, American Michael Fabiano, was the star of last week's La Traviata, very impressive.
But for some strange reason, we can't watch DVDs on our TV without disconnecting our power to the RV and running off the coach batteries...can't find DVDs much now, but wifi is often too unreliable to download movies. Also our 'old' TV isn not digital so we can't pull in cable either!
I tried replicating the shrimps in honey sauce with walnuts from Trader Joe, but they simply were not as good as the ones at the PF Chang. We are finally able to eat dinner on our patio every night.
Yesterday we found one of the great local Mexican cantinas, open for breakfast and lunch and no beer license. Hatch green peppers are legend and that's what they use to make their Chile sauce. Poco & Mom make everything from scratch. I ordered my fav, Chile rellenos, sauce on side, tons of rice and refried beans. Ted ordered his fav, tortilla soupy, loaded with lots of other things too. Ted loved their hot sauces which he could enjoy without my asking him to taste everything, as I really can't take the hot sauces any more. The stuffed chiles had a lovely tang but didn't bring out the blisters on my lips!
I have also found premixed margaritas by the 1.75 liter bottle so fill up my single serve bottles and find spots in the fridge for them easily. Ah yes, got watch the consumption of those I guess...
There is new management at the RV park here in Tucson and they have sand. Blasted the 4 pickleball courts in front of our unit last week. Glad were were not there then. The lines went in this week and a horde of foaming at the mouth players are lined up there every day to use them.
Lots of people i the park also cycle around, some oldies in tricycles, but they are still moving. The afternoons are now 33-36 and it's impossible to think of doing much other than sit in and at the pool. Ted sits in the shade to read and do his Sodukos but we have ot leave the AC on in the RV as it is soon over 99, the highest temp that our thermostat will show!
Without TV we can't get news but I am following the tennis at Indian Wells in Palm Springs with interest. It's amazing that 3 of 4 top players all met in the early rounds. Murray didn't even make it out of the blocks! But the old man Federer is the only one left in. I can get some good replays on wifi, if slowly sometimes.
I can also download snippet from MET opera, and love The Audition, which illustrates how difficult it is to go from the 1800 applicants to winners of the MET opera prize. The 2007 winner, American Michael Fabiano, was the star of last week's La Traviata, very impressive.
But for some strange reason, we can't watch DVDs on our TV without disconnecting our power to the RV and running off the coach batteries...can't find DVDs much now, but wifi is often too unreliable to download movies. Also our 'old' TV isn not digital so we can't pull in cable either!
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