November 20, 2024 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant and Tea Lunch - PPI Chicken Curry. Dinner - Pot Roast with Roasted vegetables
I seem to be eating less and feeling better. The same is not true for Suzette. Today was her gardening day with her helper, Susan, and also the day she scheduled Ray to fill the beds with composted dirt, so Suzette worked much of the Morning out in the garden.
She then went to work and did not return until after 5:00.
I did not sleep well and got up at 7:00 to shower and dress. I ate a chocolate croissant and drank a latte Machiatta as I checked the markets and it looked bleak for the high tech sector. There was a pull back in Nvidia after it’s huge $5.68 run up yesterday and several others, such as Qualcomm.
I went to Bill Turner’s from 9:00 to 12:00 to discuss two issues he needed help on and spent 3 hours discussing a hundred different topics, such as drawdown and recharge of aquifers and the limestone caverns at Edgewood. We did address one of his issues adequately.
I then drove home and found a bag of PPI Curry Chicken mixed with rice in the fridge Suzette had recently thawed. I heated a bowl of the curry and fetched the Swad Mild Mixed Pickle and the apricot chutney Suzette and I made this spring with apricots from our tree. And i ate a quick, tasty lunch
The PPI Curry with dabs of pickle and chutney
Suzette soon arrived and heated the small remaining amount of curry and joined me for lunch at 1:00.
I drank a cup of chai with lunch.
I did not sleep well last night, so after lunch I lay down to nap. I was awaken at 3:00 by a client who needed a company formed, so I did that and then around 4:00 took a package to UPS.
I then drove to Smith’s to shop. I bought milk and cream cheese and a 1/2 gallon each of artisan vanilla and chocolate cherry truffle ice cream. I then went to the meat department where they were featuring fresh salmon for $8.99/lb. I bought two 2 1/2 lb. filets and a tuna steak so I could make Gravad lax and sushi and have a few small filets for dinners.
I then went to the produce department and looked for fresh dill. There was none in the usual refrigerated cabinet, so I asked the producer employee if there was fresh dill because I would like a package. While I was waiting for his return I saw there were fresh turnips and rutabagas. I thought fresh turnips and rutabagas would be prefect to add to a roasted root vegetable medley to accompany the pot roast cooking in the crock pot at home for our dinner. I picked a large rutabaga but was reluctant to pick several turnips because they were all softened from the intermittent spraying of water on them by the automatic sprinklers.
When the produce employee returned with a package of fresh dill I was thrilled and thanked him, but I also asked him if there were any fresh turnips because these were soft. He asked, “What if I sell them for a reduced price?”
I answered, “Thank you, that would be perfect.”
So I picked three turnips and two Rutabagas and dropped them into a red net bag he held open for me, in which discounted produce is sold for $.99. He encouraged me, saying we usual sell them by the pound. I felt that I had enough of both, especially since turnips were priced at $1.99/lb. and rutabagas for $2.99/lb. and the bag must have weighed over 2 lb.s.
I also bought all purpose flour for cookies and shallots and checked out.
When I returned home around 6:00 Suzette was home and we quickly went into action to roast the root vegetables because the pot roast that she had started cooking in the new crock pot with a couple of pounds of beef roast and the PPI onion soup was fully cooked and ready to eat.
Suzette rinsed two potatoes and I fetched a 9 x 13 inch Pyrex roasting pan. Suzette threw about seven or eight cloves of garlic into the pan and I peeled and cubed two small turnips, the smaller rutabaga, the two potatoes, and the 1 1/2 lb. of Brussels sprouts I had bought at El Super. Suzette then tossed the vegetables in olive oil and some salt and roasted them covered with aluminum foil in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes and then removed the aluminum for an additional 15 minutes to crisp them a bit. Suzette also baked a small pumpkin she wants to use to make pumpkin cookies.
I opened the 2018 Calstar Sonoma Ridge Pinot Noir that had arrived a couple of days ago and let it breath for about 15 minutes and poured glasses of it when Suzette plated our bowls with meat and sauce and ladled a pile of roasted vegetables onto each plate and we ate a really good meal.
The Pinot became smoother as we ate and after the meal it was velvety smooth, so I toasted a slice of baguette and buttered it and garnished it with slices of brie for a cheese course.
We watched the second episode of Leonardo and during the show I made a sundae of fresh vanilla ice cream covered with the strawberries in brandy I prepared yesterday plus a drizzle of Hershey’s chocolate syrup.
I shared the sundae with Suzette as we watched the show.
Suzette went to bed after the first showing of the Leonardo episode at 9:00 and I stayed up to view it again because we had missed several parts of it and then went to bed at 11:30.
Nvidia announced earnings after the bell and immediately went down, even though it beat analysts’ lofty earnings estimates, which made no sense, so my portfolio had a slightly down day. God giveth and God taketh away. It is impossible for we mortals to know God’s will or intentions, to put the Market in a Renaissance perspective.
Bon Appetit
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