July 26, 2024 Breakfast - sautéed Smoked Pork Cutlet and two fried eggs, Lunch - Salad.  Dinner - Steamed Mussels

I woke up and watched TV from 5:30 to 6:30 and pedaled one mile and then went back to sleep and slept until 8:00.

After Suzette left i made breakfast, a fried Smoked Pork Cutlet a slice of onion sautéed, and two eggs over easy with a glass of orange juice.

At 10:00 I drove to Shahin’s and delivered my tax records for tax preparation.

Then at 11:30 I drove to Costco and bought seven bottles of good wine, including a Gruet Blanc de Noir, a Kirkland Barolo, an Argentinian Malbec, a highly rated Spanish Rioja, a Pinot Grigio, a Chateau Curoc? Cotes du Rhone, and an Acrobat Pinot Gris, plus a 5 lb. bag of mussels, two duck halves, baguettes, a wedge of Jarlsberg, a 3 lb. log of Jimmie Dean Sausage, a bag of 16 pain au chocolate, a 3 liter container of Spanish olive oil, a 21 oz. bag of Lindt blood orange chocolate balls, pistachios, light bulbs, shampoo and conditioner.

After I returned home and unpacked, I made a salad of romaine lettuce, radishes, cucumber, a tomato diced, some small rosemary cheese squares and three thin slices of yellow onion and dressed with the Cesar dressing reconstituted with Spanish olive oil and lemon juice.

I watched the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics starting at 1:15 after it had begun.  The opening procession was 85 boats traveling on the Seine four miles through the heart of Paris packed with athletes of each of the over 200 countries competing.. It was a little redundant but very dramatic. 

At 3:30 I drove to the Titan board meeting that lasted until 6:00.

When I arrived at home we started dinner. Suzette made a poaching medium of chicken stock, white wine, butter, shallot, Korean basil from our garden and water in the large Le Creuset casserole and began steaming the mussels. I sliced and buttered pieces of baguette and soon Suzette had steamed open two pasta bowls of mussels. We ate the mussels and kept boiling until all of them that were going to open, opened.

After dinner we watched the opening ceremony again. It was raining in Paris during the opening ceremony.

After it ended we went to bed.

Bon Appetit