July 8, 2025 Breakfast - Sausage and Eggs, and toast. Lunch - Beans and Chorizo. Dinner - Grilled T-bone steak with Potatoes roasted on the grill, and Salad
I awakened at 7:15 and took a shower and dressed.
At 8:30 I made breakfast. I sautéed two slices of Onion, a sausage patty, and two fried eggs and two quarter slices of bagel.
I then wrote a letter to the Earn folks regarding a note and then a letter to the title company attorney.
At 11:00 I took a 3 hour call from Rahim .to discuss a construction contract.
After 2:00 I checked my portfolio and remarkably, it was up thanks to Nvda hitting a new high of $160.10.
Suzette came home around 2:30 and heated the pot of beans with chorizo. They were giant red and green beans from Argentina and white Lima Beans from Spain with garbanzo beans in a chorizo flavored broth. I liked the dish a lot.
I then made a Dijonnaise dressing for the salad by mixing minced fresh tarragon, fresh garlic from our garden pressed, Spanish Sherry vinegar, Spanish olive oil, and a dash of salt, and white pepper.
We then packed and drove to Santa Fe to TR and Linda’s house on Old Pecos Trail arriving a few minutes before 5:00.
We were welcomed with glasses of Sauvignon Blanc. First, I was poured a glass of Sancerre and then we were poured Josh and we moved out to the patio.
At 6:30 we began cooking. Linda grilled a handful of asparagus, I made a salad with our garden lettuce, a monster Roma tomato, 1/2 cucumber peeled, seeded, and sliced, three radishes sliced, croutons, an avocado diced, few leaves of basil sliced thinly, and the grilled asparagus sliced into 1 inch slices. Linda had given me two avocados, so I diced and added another avocado to the dressing. I also quartered the 10 Yukon Gold potatoes we grew in our garden and Suzette and TR wrapped half of them in foil to roast on the outdoor grill.
I then sliced the shallot and four mushrooms we brought and when Linda informed me that Suzette had put the steaks on the grill, I sautéed the mushrooms and shallot in butter and olive oil.
In a few minutes Suzette brought in the roasted potatoes and the two charbroiled T-bone steaks and I sliced the steaks, giving TR and Linda the tenderloin portions since they were our guests for dinner.
Suzette dressed the salad and Linda fetched salad plates and served each of us salad. Suzette plated four or five potato quarters and I added the steak.
We opened the Calstar Cellars 2020 Nelson Hill Pinot Noir and poured glasses of it for Linda, Suzette, and me. TR drank his usual, beer.
We sat at the lovely Moroccan table under the pergola on the patio. Both the back and front yards are immense and TR told us how happy he was to have a large property. We agreed it was wonderful to feel that one could spread out a bit and relax in all this space. I would guess the house and casita where we stayed was on three or four acres, one of those older Santa Fe estates, now worth several million dollars.
During the meal starting at 7:30 we saw a beautiful sunset and a full moon rise.
After dinner Linda brought out three more bottles of wine, a Madeira, a Ifer California Pinot Noir, and a Meomi Pinot Noir. I chose the Ifer and it turned out to be a decent pinot. Suzette brought out the Chocolate Maven chocolate birthday cake with butter cream icing and sprinkles. Linda handed me the serving knife and I cut pieces for each.
The most interesting comment of the meal may have been my surprised exclamation, “Oh, that is a lovely butter cream icing”, quickly followed by TR’s “How did he know that?” when I cut the birthday cake
I guess he had not seen me put a bit of the icing stuck to the knife from the first slice of cake in my mouth. But it was a deja vu moment of the many butter cream cake icings my mother and I made in my youth. Butter cream was the standard icing for years in our house and the first taste of a real creamy butter cream icing in years brought back strong memories. A real feeling of a special birthday celebration.
Linda’s birthday is July 2 and my birthday is July 3, and the purpose of this evening’s meal was to celebrate our birthdays, admittedly belatedly, but the first day we all had free.
Linda purchased the best cake possible and it was appreciated. I ate aI second slice, to celebrate my birthday, 79 years and still going strongly.
We drank another glass of Pinot and TR said goodnight and we cleared the table and retired to the casita at 10:00.
I awakened at 1:30 to blog this entry and read a bit in the cozy living room area of the casita.
Bon Appetit
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