May 16, 2025 Brunch - Sautéed Ham and Eggs plus Apple and Onion slices.

May 16, 2025 Brunch - Sautéed Ham and Eggs plus Apple and Onion slices. 

PPI Dinner - Spanish Roasted Pork Tapa Stir Fried with Eggplant.

This was a good day of food even though it was only two meals.

I awakened at 6:00 and checked the news and ate a chocolate chip cookie with a cup of Earl Grey tea and flipped the Gravad lax that I had stated curing at 10:00 a.m. yesterday morning. My usual timing is to submerge both filets an equal time. In this batch that was 18 hours on the first side and 16 1/2 hours on the second side.

The market went down a bit yesterday but it unexpectedly ended up today, which is very unusual for a Friday.  There still seems to be appetite for risk that is hanging on in this market, perhaps because the averages have not reached their earlier highs.

The markets may go higher on Monday with the Moody’s downgrade of U.S’ credit rating and the House Ways and Means Committee vote to not pass Trump’s big beautiful budget out of committee. Could a desire to avoid a huge addition to the national debt be taking hold in Congress?

At 11:00 I made brunch for us by sautéing 1/2 of a ham steak, 1/2 of an apple sliced, two slices of onion, and three eggs.

Then I worked until 3:00 when I lay down and napped until 4:00.

At 6:00 we cooked dinner. Suzette converted the PPI roasted pork, apple, and onion tapa into an eggplant and pork stir fry. I peeled and diced 2/3 of a 1 lb. Eggplant and diced 2 tsp. of ginger and three cloves of garlic, while Suzette diced the PPI pork, onion, and apple. 

She then stir fried the eggplant and diced pork and I added the minced ginger and garlic. When those were cooked Suzette added oyster sauce mixed with some cornstarch to season and thicken the dish.

We served it over some reheated PPI sushi rice and garnished with thin green onion ringlets.  It was fabulous.

I drank my gin and tonic and Suzette drank her scotch cocktail

After dinner we watched a 2018 biopic on the early career of Ruth Bader Ginsberg up to 1972 when she argued the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case of Charles Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, focusing on Section 214 of the Internal Revenue Code, which denied dependent care deductions to unmarried men titled “On the basis of sex.”

That started her brilliant career fighting for gender equality.

We then went to bed but I got up to clean and store the Gravad lax at 10:30 and blog until midnight.

Bon Appetit