January 21, 2026 Breakfast - Granola and fruit salad Lunch - Salad Diner - roasted Pork, apple, and onion Tapa with rice and steamed asparagus

January 21, 2026 Breakfast - Granola and fruit salad Lunch - Salad Diner - roasted Pork, apple, and onion Tapa with rice and steamed asparagus 

In the morning I ate granola with fruit salad, milk, and Lala plain yogurt at my desk as I revised Bill’s affidavit.

Then at noon I ate a blueberry Newton and a Romanian Cheese turnover and walked to Bill’s office from 8th St., a distance of two blocks and secured his signature.

When I arrived home I checked the market and it had turned positive when Trump said he had made a deal on Greenland. The Dow closed up 588 points and the NASDAQ was up 270. My portfolio regained 2/3 of the amount it lost yesterday. So, a big improvement.

More interestingly, Billy wired me $53,000 which represented my half of the sale price of our family’s silver hoard. I collected coins when I was in high school and I typically would buy them from the bourse at R. E.  Wallace’s coin store downtown. Around 1962 my dad purchased several bags of junk silver coins from  Mr.  Elliott Cashion. The bags of silver have been lying around ever since until yesterday when Billy sold them and a box with five 100 ounce bars of silver Mother had bought for over $106,000.

I was thrilled that Billy sold the coins on a day when silver hit an all time high of $95.00 per ounce.

I then walked around the short block, which allowed me to reach 4000 steps for the day.

When I returned around 4:00 I made a salad containing gourmet lettuce, a diced tomato, 1/4 of a cucumber sliced, a slice of Gravad lax diced, onion slices diced, 1/2 of an avocado, five cubes of pickled beets with pickled red onion, and two slices of goat cheese. I made a simple dressing by whisking 1 tsp. of Grey Poupon mustard, about 1/2 T. of lemon juice, and about 1/3 cup of olive oil.

I had eaten about half when Suzette arrived and told me she was hungry and wanted to make the Jose Andres’ Roasted Pork Tapa, so I stopped eating the salad.

We agreed to serve it with the PPI rice and steamed asparagus and the leftover salad.

Dinner - I went out to the garden in front of the house and picked about ten sprigs of young oregano. Then I sliced two Pink Lady apples and a large brown onion into thin slices and sliced one of the two pork tenderloins into 1 1/2 inch sections.

Suzette then sautéed the apples and onions in olive oil and butter and then added the pork sections in a large French copper sauté pan. After about ten minutes she added about 7 or 8 oregano sprigs and put the pan into the oven to bake until the pork reached 145 degrees.

When she took the roasted pork tapa out of the oven she put in the other pork tender to roast.

She the removed the pieces of pork from the sauté pan and added 1 cup of rich chicken broth and a T. of brandy to the sauté pan that was over medium heat on the stove and reduced the liquid by about 1/2 to make a thin sauce. Then she added the pork pieces back and tossed them in the sauce and then plated our plates with pork, apple and onion slices and sauce plus rice and asparagus.

While the tapa was roasting Suzette steamed a handful of asparagus and re-heated the rice in the microwave.

I opened a bottle of 2016 Finca Los Principes gran Reserva Rioja red that I recently bought at Costco for $9.99, about 1/2 of the price of most gran reservas. It was an infinitely smooth wine, worthy of any meal. I will try to buy more.

After dinner we watched Nova on PBS and Suzette went to bed at 9:00 and I stayed up to watch the PBS episode on selling Nazi stolen art to willing buyers in the US and England and those who sought to recover the works for their prior owners.

During Nova Suzette whipped cream and served it over the last slice of the quince and pear tart she made several weeks ago. I went to bed around 10:30.

Bon Appetit