Saturday, June 17, 2023
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, diced half banana, dried cherries; hot water. Sewing: repaired some small tears in a beige knit shirt. Housecleaning. Lunch with Patrick at Dumpling Kitchen: chinese fried dough, green onion pancake, shanghai-style steamed sticky rice shaomai, boiled pork and shrimp with celery dumplings, hot tea, water. We had ordered two other dumpling dishes, but somehow they didn't end up on our order, so we asked them to cancel them. We had gotten pretty full by then, anyway. All food and drink were delicious. Returned home with a few leftovers. Rode Muni to Castro Street station. Errands: Cliff's Variety for party supplies and other errands. I stopped at Maxfield's for a lemon-flavored sparkling water. We walked to Kerry and Mom Ryan's place and chatted with them for a while. I installed cord management for iPhone chargers. Afterwards we walked to dinner at Santeria: hibiscus agua fresca for Patrick, puffy tacos with chipotle chicken (handmade corn masa tortilla sculpted into a cheese-lined empanada that's lightly fried and then sliced open and filled with lettuce, cotija, light crema, chile de arbol sauce), ensalada fresca with shrimp (avocado, baby romaine, beets, cucumber, queso fresco, cilantro vinaigrette dressing). The puffy tacos were not too spicy for me, and they do seem like an item I do not usually see on menus in San Francisco. All food and drink were delicious. We rode Muni home. We watched various YouTube videos about John Mulaney then American Born Chinese s1:e2 on Disney+. Patrick went to bed.