June 8, 2025 Breakfast - Sautéed Smoked Pork Chop, Onion Slices, and Fried Egg, Lunch - Scallop Chowder. Dinner - Eggplant Parmigiana with Spaghetti

June 8,  2025 Breakfast - Sautéed Smoked Pork Chop, Onion Slices, and Fried Egg, Lunch - Scallop Chowder. Dinner - Eggplant Parmigiana with Spaghetti

The big news today was not food related. It was watching the second longest championship tennis match in the modern era (since 1968), the French Open final between Alcaraz and Sinner that lasted over 5 1/2 hours and was only the 5th time in a final in the Modern Era that a player came back from a 2 set deficit to win the final.

So at 1:00 I started working on my response to the Indian government agency (MUFG) to register my shares in the Indian bank and finished around 4:30. Bravo.

Suzette stomach was upset for most of the day, so I cooked breakfast for myself. Suzette ate two slices of toasted baguette and a cup of tea.  I sautéed a smoked pork chop and 1/8 of an onion in butter and then fried two eggs and toasted three slices of Baguette that I buttered and spread with French Berry preserves.

At 1:00 I ate three slices of salami on a buttered slice of baguette.

Then when Suzette returned at 2:30 we heated the leftover Scallop Chowder and ate a bowl of it with a glass of Cuatro Osos rose from Martin Codax that we brought back from the winery in Cambados, Spain two years ago. It is one of my favorite roses made with 100% Mencia grapes.

At 6:30 I sliced the small eggplant into 3 /4 inch slices and Suzette brushed them with olive oil and sautéed them on the stove because the grill ran out of propane. She then laid the eggplant slices in a ceramic baking dish between slices of turkey meatloaf and fresh mozzarella and glazed with olive oil, then covered them with the tomato sauce I made yesterday with sautéed onion, garlic, oregano, and fresh tomatoes, a can of Costco organic diced tomatoes, and a can of tomato paste and baked the dish in the oven.

She then boiled a 1 lb. package of Spaghetti. When the spaghetti was cooked, Suzette drained it and put a small pile of spaghetti in a pasta bowl and lay several slices of baked eggplant on top and added more tomato sauce for my dish and I added some grated Pecorino Romano cheese.

I opened a bottle of Kirkland Chianti Classico Riserva that had a rather flat flavor characteristic of large monopole production. I guess in the future I will buy single estate chiantis.

We watched Oklahoma City beat the Indiana Pacers by 20 points in the second game of the NBA finals to tie the series 1 to 1.

Then at 9:00 we went to bed.

I awakened at 4:00 a.m. to blog this blog and check on the protests in L.A. against President Trump’s ICE operation and calling up the National Guard over Governor Gavin Newson’s objection. It is one more harmful action by Trump against a blue state.

Bon Appetit