August 3, 2026 Snack - Pain au Chocolate. Breakfast - Range Cafe Dinner - Sautéed Smoked Pork Cutlet and Cabbage, Onion, and Apple Sautéed

August 3, 2026 Snack - Pain au Chocolate. Breakfast - Range Cafe Dinner - Sautéed Smoked Pork Cutlet and Cabbage, Onion, and Apple Sautéed 

It was a busy morning. We left the house at 6:45 for Suzette’s procedure. She had nor eaten since dinner so when she finished we decided to breakfast at The Range on Wyoming near Montgomery.

We both ordered the Monday Special, Huevos Rancheros with beans and cottage fries. Suzette ordered a latte and I drank ice water. Suzette chose a flour tortilla as her bread side and I chose a biscuit with butter and honey. The biscuit was big and dense but also flaky. I like the entire meal and we were both stuffed when we finished.

The Monday Huevos Rancheros was unusually delicious and not terribly expensive at $10.99.

I would go back.

We then drove to the Japanese market at Montgomery and San Pedro where we bought Japanese toothpicks and and a defoliating cosmetic for Suzette.  

We then drove to Pres at 8800 Montgomery for my doctor’s appointment.

When it was over by 11:30 we drove home.

We worked at our desks. I opened a bank account with Schwab and a line of credit secured by my portfolio and ordered a debit card that will not charge me a foreign transaction fee. I got tired around 2:30 and lay down for a nap until 3:30.

I then checked my portfolio and discovered it was a good day with my portfolio up 1.5%.

At 5:00 I joined Suzette and we discussed dinner. Suzette offered two  choices between sautéed cabbage and a smoked pork cutlet and a lamb, peach and fig salad.  I chose the hot meal of sautéed pork and cabbage. We had a half head of chopped cabbage that Suzette sautéed in olive and we added 2/3 of a minced red onion and two apples cut into thin slices. Suzette seasoned the cabbage with the Afghan black cumin Luke sent us for my birthday.

We drank glasses of Trader Joe’s Bandol rose that was really delightful.

I was still hungry after dinner, perhaps because we did not eat lunch,  so I heated the last piece of blueberry bread pudding and ate it with scoops of vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of rye whiskey.

We watched the Road Show and Suzette went to bed at 8:00. I stayed up and sipped a cognac and ate birthday chocolate truffle and went to bed at 9:00 to blog and read.

Bon Appetit

August 2, 2026 Breakfast - BLT Sandwiches with an egg Lunch - Mongolian Beef and Lo Mein Noodles, Snack - Fig Tart with Champagne. Dinner - Pita Pocket Sandwiches with Tabouli, tzatziki, and grilled lamb

August 2, 2026 Breakfast - BLT Sandwiches with an egg  Lunch - Mongolian Beef and Lo Mein Noodles,  Snack - Fig Tart with Champagne.  Dinner - Pita Pocket Sandwiches with Tabouli, tzatziki, and grilled lamb

We worked at our desks much of the day with lots of interruptions for food.

At 9:00 Suzette fried bacon, sliced tomatoes, an avocado, and 4 slices of French Country bread that she toasted. I fetched the lettuce and she fetched the Mayo and fried egg pancakes and we made BLT sandwiches with egg and avocado slices for a rather decadent breakfast with glasses of Albariño.

Then after the news at 10:30 we rode bikes in the neighborhood.

Then we worked until 12:30 when I heated the leftover Mongolian Beef and Lo Mein Noodles for lunch.

I then rested from 1:30 until 2:30 and Suzette worked until 3:00 when we watched The final episode of the Marlow Murder Club and snacked on a slice of Fig and Goat cheese tart with glasses of Gruet Brut.

Then I sliced a cabbage and Suzette filled 4 quart bottles with cabbage, a T. of salt and hot water to make sauerkraut.  

I then rested and Suzette watched HGTV until 6:00 when we watched  Miss Fisher. At 6:45 I sliced two previously grilled lamb chops into slices and at 7:00 Willy came and we fetched the tabouli and tzatziki and heated the lamb and heated pitas cut in half and filled them to make pita pocket sandwiches.

We all watched Patience and Willy opened my birthday box of chocolates and each ate a truffle with the lovely Gran Reserva Rioja I opened.

Then at 8:00 when Willy left we watched Grantchester until 9:00 when we went to bed.

I sipped a cognac mixed with the last of the Geveny herbal liquor and blogged while Suzette slept.

Bon Appetit 

August 1, 2026. Breakfast - chicken and a vegetable Egg Foo Young. Lunch and Concert and pedicure at the Center, Dinner - grilled Lamb chops on mint, tzatziki, tabouli, and Steamed Broccoli

August 1, 2026. Breakfast - chicken and a vegetable Egg Foo Young. Lunch and Concert and pedicure at the Center, Dinner - grilled Lamb chops on mint, tzatziki, tabouli, and Steamed Broccoli

I woke up at 2:30 and drafted a Notice of Appeal.

Then I slept until 6:30 when we got up I sautéed the leftover chicken and vegetables and stirred in two eggs to make an egg foo young like cake.

After I ate I showered and dressed and we left at 8:00 and drove to Belen where Suzette bought Five 12 foot collapsible tables for her new park project.

We then drove to the Center and I had a pedicure friend j 10:00 to 11:30 that greatly helped my feet feel better.

I enjoyed talking to Elisa, the lady who gave me the pedicure.

I then joined the community for residents for lunch under the tent in the field in front of the stage where a really good six piece band played.

Lunch included BBQ chicken thighs, macaroni salad, and watermelon.

At 12:30 we drove back to Albuquerque.

We worked at our desks during the afternoon. I worked until 3:00 and then lay down to read and doze until 4:30.

We then discussed dinner. Suzette decided to make a fig and goat cheese tart and grill the lamb chops we bought at Costco on Wednesday.

I agreed to make tabouli, tzatziki, and steam broccoli. I used fresh tomatoes from the garden at the Center in the tabouli plus chopped cucumber, green onion, lemon juice, olive oil, and fresh mint and parsley from our garden.

I also used fresh mint and garlic from our garden in the tzatziki plus lemon juice, cucumber, yogurt, and a little onion and olive oil.

It was a rather elaborate dinner but everything turned out well and we now have the ingredients for pita pockets sandwiches.

In the afternoon I fetched a bottle of 2018 Olarra Reserva Rioja and chilled it so we would not need to add ice for dinner. Suzette really liked drinking chilled red wine with dinner.

We watched Bill Maher and later Father Brown and fell asleep during Death in Paradise and went to bed at 10:00.

Bon Appetit 

July 31, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Pasta and meatballs in Spaghetti sauce. Dinner - Leftover Enchiladas and refried beans and an egg

July 31, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Pasta and meatballs in Spaghetti sauce. Dinner - Leftover Enchiladas and refried beans and an egg

I awakened a5 6:30 and ate a pain au Chocolate with a Latte Macchiato. Then at 9:00 Suzette and I walked around the block and when we returned we picked a few peaches and then some figs.

I talked to Luke an hour about a new job in LA that sounds exciting.

At 10:45 I drove to Tricore and did some labs for my appointment on Monday with Dr. Bungo.

When I returned home around noon Suzette heated the meatballs And spaghetti sauce the new chef made with most of the leftover.cooked farfalle.

We drank the last two glasses of Kirkland Gigondas.

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Then I rested and started reading next month’s book club selection, the invention of Morel and rested until 4:15 when I watched the news until 5:00.

When I joined Suzette in the TV room I decided to heat up the leftover enchiladas from Mary and Tito’s yesterday lunch and I fried an egg to garnish and some sour cream.

We watched news until 7:00 and then watched a Netflix movie titled  Love and Gelato that was a sweet romantic comedy anout a 17 year old who promises her dying mother that she will spend the summer in Rome and falls in love with it and gelato, and an Italian.

Bon Appetit