January 31, 2021 Lunch – Ham and Split pea soup. Dinner – Poached Mahi Mahi with carrots ,onion, garlic, and mushrooms served with Shanghai noodles and Steamed Broccoli

 January 31, 2021 Lunch – Ham and Split pea soup. Dinner – Poached Mahi Mahi with carrots ,onion, garlic, and mushrooms served with Shanghai noodles and Steamed Broccoli

I awakened at 6:00 to watch Liecester play Leeds and was depressed when Leeds beat them.  I watched the news and then Suzette and I made bacon and eggs.

At 11:30 I drove to Sprouts to shop.  I bought two matching fillets of  salmon for Gravad lax, tuna, and scallops for sushi, green beans, green onions, parsley, milk, orange marmalade, a pineapple, cilantro, two large avocados, two sweet onions, celery, carrots, and five lb. of bacon on sale for $2.99/lb.

When I returned home I heated the split pea soup and we ate bowls of it for our lunch. I ate mine with a buttered slice of whole wheat bread and a glass of German rose wine.  

  

We zoomed at 2:00 with Rebecca and Mickie and Billy and Elaine.

At 3:00 I lay down and napped until 4:30.

We started dinner at 5:30.  I sliced a cup of strips of sweet onion and about the same amount of mushrooms.  Suzette sectioned the two fillets of Mahi Mahi and peeled and sliced strips of carrots.  She then cooked the vegetables in butter and added water and white wine to make a poaching medium that she cooked the fish in.  

Suzette also destemmed Broccoli flowerets and steamed them.

Willy arrived around 6:30 to do laundry and join us for dinner.

I heated 4 quarts of water and when Suzette added cream to the fish pot I softened about ½ lb. of thin freshShanghai egg noodles in the boiling water for about 1 minute.  We then transferred most of them to the fish pot.

 Suzette then plated the dish and garnished with steamed broccoli.

 

  

We opened a bottle of French Belles Vignes Sauvignon Blanc to use in the poaching medium and drink with the dish.

  This turned of to be a French/Chinese fusion dish that we liked.  Suzette noted that the noodles were much thinner than normal egg noodles.

 After dinner while we watched Scarlett and the duke on PBS Masterpiece Theatre, suzette made dessert, scoops of chocolate mousse dusted with mandarin orange powder, two recipes from the La Buvette cookbook.   

It was a lovely dinner and evening of wonderful PBS Masterpiece theatre.

We went to bed at 10:00 after I blogged.

Bon Appetit

January 30, 2021 Lunch – PPI Moussaka. Dinner – Mapo Dofu with rice

 January 30, 2021 Lunch – PPI Moussaka. Dinner – Mapo Dofu with rice

The best food experience today was Suzette making mandarin orange powder that she sprinkled on the chocolate mousse we made two nights ago.  Both recipes are from the Le Buvette Cookbook Luke gave us for Christmas.

I drank a cup of hot chocolate for breakfast. I watched soccer until noon when I ate the last of the wonderful moussaka.

I showered and rested after lunch.  At 2:00 Suzette got me out of bed and we drove to the Wildlife Refuge at the southern end of 2d St., but it was closed. We did see a roadrunner in the parking lot 

It was closed so we drove back to Kit Carson Park and walked to the ponds and the river.

When we returned home the Coopers Hawk was sitting on our bird bath, so we saw several interesting birds without trying today.

Mapo Dofu

We started cooking dinner at 5:30. I sliced three ichiban eggplants into two inch strips, I diced ½ onion, seven or eight cloves of garlic, about 1 ounce of ginger and cubed the meat of two pork chops and 2 oz. of Jimmy Dean sausage.

I then made 1 cup of rice by heating 2 cups of water with a tsp. Of chicken stock to a boil and adding 1 cup of basmati rice and reducing the covered potato the lowest heat and cooking for 30 minutes, which is how long it took to finish cooking the Mapo Dofu dish. 

I heated 2 T. of peanut oil and stir fried the garlic, ginger, and 1 tsp. of garlic chili sauce. I then added the meat and stir fried it and then added the onion and eggplant. It practically my wok, so I covered the wok so the steam would cook the eggplant faster than my turning the mass of eggplant.

I diced approximately 9 oz. of medium firm tofu and added thecubes to the wok. 

I then soaked four dried shiitake mushrooms and 1 1/2 T. of sliced black wood ear in 2 cups of hot water for about ten minutes. I then removed the hard stem from each mushroom with a sharp knife and sliced each mushroom into ¼ inch wide strips and soaked them another five minutes to soften them and then to the wok.  This brought the level of liquid almost to the top of the ingredients.

I cooked the ingredients for another ten to fifteen minutes while I made the seasoning sauce of 1 ½ T. each of cornstarch, Chinese Cooking wine, and soy sauce with 1 tsp. of sesame oil and ¼ cup of water.

After I added the seasoning sauce I covered the wok to let the sauce thicken until the rice was ready.

I went to the garage and fetched the last two Modelo Especial beers, which we drank with our dinner.  We each added a pinch of salt to give the dish a bit more flavor.

After dinner we watched The Dig, a new British movie with Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan about the discovery and excavation of the 5th century Sutton Hoo burial sight including an entire Anglo-Saxon wooden ship on Netflix.

Dessert 

Suzette became fascinated with the recipe in our new Le Buvette cookbook for mandarin orange powdered this week she bought a bag of mandarin oranges.  Today she removed the pulp by making a horizontal incision around ten oranges and drying in the peels in the oven for 2 hours as the recipe provides.  She then ground the peels into a powder using an electric coffee grinder.  During the film tonight suzette served a dessert of chocolate mousse in a champagne glass dusted with mandarin orange powder and sniffers of cognac.  It was a wonderful dessert.  You can smell the orange before you even taste the chocolate and orange flavor.

We loved it.

Bon Appetit

January 28, 2021 Lunch – 2000 Vietnam No. 21, Dinner – PPI Moussaka

 January 28, 2021 Lunch – 2000 Vietnam No. 21,   Dinner – PPI Moussaka 

Today all the excitement was in the stock market where there was an insurrection of sorts.  Several retail trading platforms such as Reddit and Robinkood seem to have planned an attack on large hedge fund traders that were perceived to be short Ling several stocks because they were identified to be weak or failing financially. It is not clear yet who or how the communications were carried out but there has been a surge of buying of GameStop and AMC that pushed the stock up over 100% a day for the last few days. The goal was to force the large hedge funds that were shorting those stocks to lose their investment if they were using borrowed funds due to margin calls.  The secondary goal was to make lots of money as the price of those shares sky rocketed.  In other words to turn the big institutional short sellers’ strategy on them to force them to lose their bets that those stocks would go down when they placed a short position on the stocks.  It demonstrates the power and ability of a small group of investors to organize through internet communications to create a significant movement in a few stocks.

History in now being written on this new strategy just like the Insurrection at the Capitol.  Same unique factor in both may turn out    to be the effective use of the internet to orchestrate the action.

Unfortunately for me and other average investors is that our portfolios are dropping in value as the participants sell their favored safe harbor stock positions in companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Air BNB to fund their purchases of GameStop and AMC. My portfolio has lost over 2 ½% of its value in the last two days.

Food was secondary today. I made two Lax and bagel slices for breakfast.  

Peter picked me up a No.21 at 2000 Vietnam that he delivered at 1:00 and we made a quick and easy dinner at 6:00 byte-heating squares of the moussaka we made the other night.

I opened a bottle of Faustino Rivero Reserva tempranillo from  Rioja in Spain for dinner.  It wa because we could taste thesediment, which means it was not properly racked.

 

Moussaka 

 

What was exciting and creative was that we made the chocolate mousse recipe from the Le Buvette cookbook Luke gave us for  Christmas. Suzette melted butter and dark chocolate mixed cream and confectioner’s sugar in the Kitchenad while I separated and whisked three egg yolks and beat the whites into soft peaks. Suzette then combined the whisked egg yolks and butter and chocolate into the cream and sugar mixture and I then folded that mixture into the whisked egg whites. The result was chocolate mousse that we poured into parfait glasses and chilled until 9:00 after the first half of Midsomer Mystery, when we ate them with a sniffer of cognac.

Here is the recipe.

Bon Appetit  

January 27, 2021 Lunch – PPI Lasagna Dinner – Chana Masala Tajine with Couscous

 January 27, 2021 Lunch – PPI Lasagna  Dinner – Chana Masala Tajine with Couscous 

Today was a good food day.  I read part of Le Buvette last night.  A food and wine book written by the owner of a restaurant of that name in Paris.  The thing she emphasizes is taste.  Interesting flavors joined together such a ball of fresh mozzarella cheese dusted with dried mandarin orange peel powder of large cooked beans with a squirt of citrus. 

I have dedicated myself to tasting food both for the added enjoyment and to lose some weight from eating less.

Today I started with a bowl of granola, milk, blueberries, and yogurt.

 Then at 12:30 suzette and I decided to re-heat the last of the PPI Lasagna.  It was still delicious with glasses of the Dublanc Cotes Du Rhone.  After lunch I ate three squares of dark chocolate with almonds with the last sips of wine. 

 

  Today was huge sell off in the Market with my portfolio losing 2%.  Let’s hope things turn around 

tomorrow.

Today I read about a wonderful lamb stew and chickpea stew one of the characters in Pathway to the Moon ate in Tangiers, so I decided to try to replicate the stew.  The only cooked chickpeas in the House was a bag of Channa Masala, so I chopped ¼ onion, carrot, and a ½ lb. slice of baked butternut squash.  Suzette sautéed those three ingredients and added a handful of raisins while I cubed the remaining meat on two lamb chops left from last night’s dinner. The book’s description mentioned the flavor of turmeric, so I thought the masala had a similar flavor profile.

I added the finely cubed lamb and about ½ cup of PPI ground veal stew to the pot of vegetables and we  added some water to loosen the stew.

I then made 1 cup of Couscous by sautéing 1 cup of Couscous in 2 T. of melted butter and then adding 1 ½ cups of boiling water and cooking the Couscous for a few minutes to develop steam and cook the Couscous and then let it stand for a couple of Minutes.  Then I fluffed the Couscous and turned up the heat to develop steam in the pot and then turned off the heat to let it fluff up.

  We enjoyed the dish but thought it could have had more flavor.  There is enough for another meal, so when we eat it again we will add harrisa.

  I drank chai with dinner and Suzette drank a Negra Modelo.

We moved items in the basement to clean the floor to prep it for Suzette’s painting this weekend and then went to bed.

Bon Appetit

 

January 26, 2021 Lunch – Salami Salad with Melted cheese and Liverwurst sandwich. Dinner – New Recipe. Grilled Lamb Chops with Delicata Squash Cream Sauce and Steamed Green Beans

 January 26, 2021 Lunch – Salami Salad with Melted cheese and Liverwurst sandwich. Dinner – New Recipe. Grilled Lamb Chops with Delicata Squash Cream Sauce and Steamed Green Beans

Today I toasted two slices of bagel and smeared them with cream cheese and garnished them with slices of onion, Gravad Lax and capers for breakfast. 

For lunch at 2:00 I made a salad with a diced aroma tomato, ¼ of a cucumber, about 10 slices of salami and three slices of red onion quartered.  I made an open faced melted cheese sandwich with a toasted slice of whole wheat bread on which I lay slices of Jarlsberg cheese that I had melted and then smeared with honey mustard and garnished with slices of Boarshead Liverwurst I bought at Sprouts last Saturday morning.

The. Sliced cornichon on the Liverwurst was a nice touch 

The market closed as I was making my salad, so checked it and was amazed that my portfolio had gained .75% today thanked to a late buying spree of Apple and strong gains by J and J and Moderna based on

 their vaccine development.  This Market is becoming surreal. This was the sixth day in a row of significant gains.  Neither Joe Biden or can be living this right.

The market will turn, but figuring the turning point is the question. 

Again I had no plan for dinner when Suzette arrived at 4:30. She had not eaten, so she made a cheese and Liverwurst sandwich and we discussed a dinner menu.  We had several lamb chops still thawed so we decided to grill four of them and steam more green beans.  But, the creative dish that Suzette came up with was to purée the delicata squash we had baked on Sunday and mix it with a cream sauce with a roux and milk to make a delicata cream sauce.  Suzette also toasted a handful of pinon nuts to give the sauce a bit more texture and flavor.   I made a tzatziki sauce with two cloves of  Garlic pressed, a cup of Greek yogurt, about 2 T. of olive oil, juice of a lemon, 3 T. Of minced red onion, and about two T. of fresh dill weed chopped,   The tzatziki did not really complement the cream sauce, but I ate some later and enjoyed the zesty oniony flavor.

I went to the basement and found a bottle of 2017 George Dublanc Cotes Du Rhone red.  I prefer Cotes Du Rhone with Grilled Lamb ($5.99 ? at Trader Joe’s).

Suzette Grilled the lamb chops to our preferred medium rare.

 She then laid a pile of the sauce in the bottom of a pasta dish with green beans on the side, and garnished the sauce with toasted pinon nuts and lay two chops on top of the pile.

 

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 We had a lovely dinner although the sauce was rather rich andi we up burping at 1:00, when I blogged this blog.

The most fun thing that happened today is that it snowed last night and our Christmas tree bird feeder was beautiful standing in the snow in our back yard this morning shortly before sun rise.  

Bon Appetit

 

January 25, 2021 Lunch – PPI Posole and a Tamale. Dinner – New Recipe. Eggplant Moussaka

 January 25, 2021 Lunch – PPI Posole and a Tamale. Dinner – New Recipe.  Eggplant Moussaka

I did not eat breakfast again today so at 10:30 I heated the partially frozen pot of Posole and threw a frozen tamale into the pot with 1 ½ cups of water and brought it to a boil. I went to the garden and picked a handful of fresh oregano and de-stemmed the leaves and chopped them and chopped about 2 T. of onion to add to the bowl and ate 1 ½ bowls  of Posole.  

I can not believe what I am seeing in the Market.  Apple and Moderna were up again and my portfolio advanced another 1% today to yet another all time high. I am now trying to determine when it will pull back and how to plan for that.

I read Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris during part of the afternoon and when Suzette arrived around 4:00 1 walked ½ mile.

When I returned home we discussed dinner.  Suzette wanted to use the ricotta cheese she bought last week with the lamb chops she bought last week.  She finally came up with a recipe that used both, eggplant and lamb moussaka.  

This turned out to be one of the best new recipes we have cooked in a long time, possibly because we had all the fresh ingredients.  I removed the meat from six lamb chops, removed all the sinew and fat and minced the meat. I went to the garden and picked a handful of oregano and de-stemmed the leaves and chopped about 2 T. of oregano. Suzette diced tomatoes and an onion and sautéed the them with the oregano and lamb..

She sliced creamer potatoes and blanched them in a Pyrex loaf pan covered with Saran with a bit of water and sliced the eggplant I bought on Saturday.  She then made about two cups of cream sauce with a roux and milk.

Suzette then constructed the moussaka.  She laid the sliced cooked potatoes on the bottom, then the slices of eggplant, then a layer of fresh spinach, then the sautéed lamb, oregano, tomato, and onion then globs of ricotta, and finally the cream sauce.

 

 

 

 

   She then baked the 9 x 13 Pyrex baking dish of moussaka in a 350 degree pre-heated oven for 45 minutes until juices began to bubble up at the edges.

  

  

The moussaka was the best I have ever tasted; it was creamy and had an absence of oily fat.  I attribute this superior flavor to two factors.  We substituted creamy, slightly sweet ricotta instead of the traditional feta cheese called for in the recipe and by the fact that I meticulously removed the fat from the lamb so that it lacked almost all fat.

I love Southern Rhone red wine with lamb.  Southern Rhone is principally Grenache and Syrah grapes. I fetched a bottle of 2011 Vega del Origon Gran Reserva from the Terra Alta region of Spain because it has the typical dosage of grapes as Cotes Du Rhone, 60% Grenache/Garnacha and 40% Syrah.

  The moussaka could not have been more delicious.

I drank a bit of Calvados and ate a few squares of chocolate with almonds after dinner.

Bon Appetit     

January 24, 2021 .brunch – Sausage, Potato, and Egg Burrito, Dinner - Poached Coho Salmon with Dill Cream Sauce, Steamed Green Beans, and Sautéed White Sweet Potatoes

 January 24, 2021 .brunch – Sausage, Potato, and Egg Burrito,  Dinner -  Poached Coho Salmon with Dill Cream Sauce, Steamed Green Beans, and Sautéed White Sweet Potatoes

I awakened at 7:40 and watched the news programs until 10:00 while I stripped dried lavender flowers from their stalks.

Then we made brunch.  We sautéed Jimmie Dean sausage and a cubed Yukon gold potato and ¼ onion.  When they were cooked we added three eggs whisked and scrambled the mixture until cooked.  I then toasted two large flour tortillas and filled each with half the mixture.      I doused my burrito with Cholula hot sauce. Suzette made a Bloody Mary and I made a cup of Tilapia teas with honey and lime juice.

After brunch we put up dishes, took bottles to the basement and worked on assembling the puzzle Cynthia brought us and I ate the last of the tzatziki.

At 1:00 we started watching the NFL Divisional Final between Tampa Bay and Green Bay, which Tampa Bay won.  We zoomed with the family at 2:00 for an hour.  

Then at 4:30 we watched the AFL Divisional final between Buffalo and Kansas City and shared a bag of popcorn.

We also prepped dinner.  I chopped a 1/3 cup of dill and minced ½ shallot and snapped about a lb. of green beans and put the beans in the steamer basket.

We drank the last 1/3 bottle of still slightly fizzy Gruet Brut champagne at 5:30 as we watched the game.  

Dinner

At 6:30 we began to cook dinner.  Suzette poached a 1 lb. fillet of wild caught Coho salmon ($9.95/lb. 

at Sprouts) in a poaching medium of white wine, water, butter, dill, and shallot. When the salmon was cooked she made a roux of flour and butter and used the poaching medium to make a cream sauce.

While cooking the salmon Suzette also sliced three the previously baked white sweet potatoes in butter until the edges crisped and turned brown and steamed the green beans.

I opened a bottle of 2019 Hungarian Gruner Veltliner ($6.99 at Trader Jie’s) and poured glasses.

 

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Willy came over at 6:45 and ate dinner with us-p as we watched Kansas City beat Buffalo decisively.  Willy left at 8:00 and we watched All Creatures Great and Small Masterpiece episode and went to bed.

I slept until 11:15 when I took my pills and awakened at 2:00 to write this blog and read a bit of Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris.

Bon Appetit

January 23, 2021 Brunch – Egg BLT. Dinner – PPI Lasagna and Cesar Salad

 January 23, 2021 Brunch – Egg BLT.  Dinner – PPI Lasagna and Cesar Salad

There was no soccer on TV this morning so at 8:00 I decided to go shopping at Sprouts.i showered and dressed and drove to the new Coors store, my new favorite.  I bought the two things we needed dill weed for the tzatziki for the lamb chops Suzette bought at Costco yesterday and milk.  But I also bought a fillet of Coho salmon, a fillet of mahi mahi, a pound of bacon, yogurt, Roma tomatoes, red and yellow onions, an eggplant, and broccoli.  All in all a good shopping experience. 

I did not return home until 10:00and I was mighty hungry. We decided to made BLTsandwiches with slices of the fresh loaf of whole wheat bread I bought at Bosque Bakery yesterday.

Suzette had put the two slicing tomatoes in the window sill so they had ripened.  We fried the last seven slices of bacon from the last package of bacon and Suzette spun six or seven leaves of Romaine lettuce.

She then fried three whisked eggs into an egg pancake and sliced the two tomatoes.  We toasted four slices of bread and a Suzette spread mayo on them.  I sliced onion for my two open faced sandwiches.

We each piled tomatoes, lettuce, bacon, and Suzette lay a quarter of the egg pancake on each of my sandwiches.  Suzette made her sandwich with a slice of bread on each side.  Suzette made a Bloody Mary and I drank a glass of Clamato flavored with juice of ½ lime.

,We ate in the gazebo bathed in sunlight.

After lunch I rested and read until 3:00. Suzette walked 2 miles around the two ponds at Tingley Beach.  When she returned at 4:00  I rode 5 miles south.  

As I returned home the sun was setting reflecting pink off the snow on Sandia Peak and the moon was high in the Sky. Sort of a Moon rise over Albuquerque.

When I returned I drank a hot buttered rum, made with a heaping tsp.of brown sugar, a heaping tsp. of butter, a bit of rum, and a bit of freshly grated nutmeg. 

At 6:30 we made dinner. It was easy.  We heated pieces of the PPI Lasagna and made a Caesar salad with torn Romaine lettuce, slices of Pecorino -Romano cheese plus we made croutons.  I cut cubes ofFrench baguette and Suzette tossed them in a freezer bag with olive oil, salt, and pepper and baked them in the oven until golden brown to brown.  I freshened the dressing with some anchovies, the juice of ½ lemon, and some olive oil.  

We opened a bottle of 2017 Cantina Zaccagnini Montepulciano del Abbruzo that I bought last year for $13.99 at Trader Joe’s.

  I grated Parmesan cheese on top of the lasagna and we ate a wonderful meal. 

 

We watched Ebola Holmes as we finished our glasses of wine after dinner.

Bon Appetit 

January 22, 2021 Lunch – 2000 Vietnam No. 21, Dinner – New Recipe Roasted Bratwursts, Potatoes, Onion, and Apple

 January 22, 2021 Lunch – 2000 Vietnam No. 21,  Dinner – New Recipe  Roasted Bratwursts, Potatoes, Onion, and Apple

I have already noticed a difference today between the Trump and Biden Presidency; today the market was up again for the fourth time in as many days and President Biden did not take credit for it.

In fact, the 5.2% increase in y portfolio’s value in the last 4 days is the most rapid gain that I can remember during the Trump presidency.  Said another way, I hope for a 10% annual gain and my portfolio has achieved over ½ of that in just the first four days of Biden’s Presidency.  I can think of no greater indicator that things are on the right track for an economic recovery and the faith that investors place in this administration. 

Today I finally got busy with legal work.  At 11:00 I finally left the house without breakfast and drove to the bank and then to east Central Ave. to inspect the demolition of a client’s building, after which I drove to 2000 Vietnam to pick up my order of No. 21, that I took home and ate with the addition of about 1 cup of sliced Romaine lettuce and a glass of iced Vietnamese coffee (1/2 cup of coffee mixed with 1 heaping T. of condensed milk in a glass of ice cubes) while also watched Biden introduce his $1.9 Trillion Covid rescue Legislation and the Market close at an all time high for the NASDAQ.and my portfolio.

The remodeled cashier’s stand with shrine and offerings

                                                                        No. 21 

I and the nation can truly say, “This was a week like no other in recent memory”.

I met with my new probate client at 3:30 until 5:00 and we completed the pleadings to initiate the probate, I hope.

Suzette came home shortly thereafter and after she made a salmon schmear appetizer by combining sour cream with PPI poached salmon that she ate with crackers and we had a cocktail, we started dinner.

Dinner – 

 

The roasted squashes 

Dinner after it roasted

Dinner on the plate with the horseradish sauce 

One of the axioms of our style of cooking lately has become try to cook a one dish dinner.  Tonight’s dinner was a good example. We combined cubed Sweet potatoes and creamer potatoes and two bratwurst with a diced peeled Granny Smith Apple and ½ of a yellow onion in a 10 x 13 Pyrex baking dish that Suzette tossed with olive oil,  salt, and pepper and roasted in the oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. 

We also baked all of our squashes along with dinner. 

I fetched beers from the garage and we made a simple sauce by mixing a heaping T. of prepared horseradish with ½ cup of sour cream.  The dish reminded me of a Russian dish I used to make 50 years ago, baked pork chops, onion, and potato in sour cream.

We watched a movie about and by the fellow with Downs Syndrome and then went to bed  

I awakened at 1:00 and blogged this blog.

Suzette went to Costco today’s dinner bought lamb chops, so tomorrow’s dinner will be lamb chops, PPI roasted potatoes and green beans.

Bon Appetit

January 21, 2021 Lunch – PPI Posole and a Tamale Dinner – PPI Lasagna

 January 21, 2021 Lunch – PPI Posole and a Tamale  Dinner – PPI Lasagna

 Today food was overshadowed by the beginning of the Biden Presidency and the stock market. 

The Biden WH took a number of important administrative steps today, including introducing a comprehensive Covid plan and firing several Trump holdover agency directors and nominating several new department heads.

The market continued for a third day to rEspond favorably to the new Biden Presidency.  My portfolio grew by almost 2%, which is near record territory for one day.  It grew almost 5% in the last three days, which I think is a record. There were big advances in the big tech stocks.  Apple was up almost $5.00/share today, for example.

I am pretty sure  this is the best three day run in the history of my portfolio.

I ate granola, yogurt, blueberries, and milk for breakfast.

I had a busy morning of work that I ended at 12:30 when I heated a bowl of PPI Posole and one of the beef Tamales Loyda and Jody gave us.

I listened to the WH press briefing at 2:00 with Dr. Fauci and at 3:00 I rode to Campbell Rd. and back. It was a lovely day over 50 degrees and sunny with only a light breeze out of the north.

I rested until Suzette came home at 5:30.  We reheated pieces of the PPI lasagna for dinner and I opened another bottle of the Aquino Chianti Reserva (Trader Joe’s $5.99).  I also sautéed three more slices of French baguette in the leftover garlic oil to make garlic bread.

It was a thoroughly pleasant day.

After dinner I ate several squares of milk chocolate with almonds and drank a cup of tea. 

I was tired and lay down a bit after 8:00 and slept until 10:30 when I wrote this blog.

Bon Appetit

 

January 20, 2021 Lunch - Biden Inauguration Lunch. Dinner – Salmon and Egg Salad on Rye bread

 January 20, 2021 Lunch - Biden Inauguration Lunch. Dinner – Salmon and Egg Salad on Rye bread 

Today was a fabulous day.my portfolio hits new all time high and Biden and Harris were sworn in as President and Vice President and Trump left the Presidency and Washington. 

I ate a slice of bagel and a slice of French baguette toasted and smeared with goat cheese and slices of onion and Gravad Lax and capers.

Then Suzette covered the prepped lasagna with a layer of spaghetti and grated Parmesan cheese and baked for an hour in a 350 degree oven. 

I made garlic bread by slicing seven cloves of garlic and heating it in butter and olive oil and toasted 7 pieces ofFrench baguette in the garlic flavored oil for ten to fifteen minutes.

I opened a bottle of 2015 Aquino Chianti Reserva and Suzette served the lasagna after noon.

We watched the inauguration all day starting with Trump’s leaving the WH and Washington at 6:15.

There was a tandem rise in the Market. I had one of my best days ever in the Market rising .0183,33% to raise my portfolio to an all time high.

In the morning the Jenni’s caramel peanut butter chocolate chip ice cream was delivered this morning.  This is Joe Biden’s favorite ice cream.  And a pasta with tomato sauce is his favorite entrée. So we ate his favorite lunch.

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  I rested until 4:00 and walked 7 blocks.

We were not hungry until later in the evening.  We decided to eat the remaining egg salad and-poached salmon and mackerel on German rye bread.  We opened a bottle of Gruet Brut to drink with dinner.

After dinner I made a cheese sandwich on rye bread with Cherry Blossom Pinot Noir,  then I made a cup of tea and ate two chocolate truffles with a sniffer of Calvados.

This was a great day for America and my portfolio.

Bon Appetit