November 11, 2026 Breakfast - Man on an Island and a pork chop. Lunch - Yama’s Greek Rotisserie, Dinner - Apple, onion, and pork Tapa with broccoli and Cauliflower and sautéed Shishito peppers

November 11, 2026 Breakfast - Man on an Island and a pork chop. Lunch - Yama’s Greek Rotisserie,  Dinner - Apple, onion, and pork Tapa with broccoli and Cauliflower and sautéed Shishito peppers

I slept until 7:10 and then watched the market take off. At the close the NASDAQ was up 400 points and my portfolio rose 2.5%.

At 8:00 I made a man on an Island and sautéed a slice of roasted pork for breakfast.

We had a delightful day. Around 9:00 we drove to Santa Fe, stopping at Restore-it, Stephen’s and finally the Santa Fe Art Auction where Suzette paid for and picked up the Dorothy Brett and Gene Kloss paintings she bought at auction last Saturday.

As I wandered around the auction hall I noticed a portrait of an Indian by Gerald Cassidy I had seen and liked that had not bid on that was unsold. I asked about it and the manager said in her opinion it had had too high and opening reserve of $3000. I asked the manager to see the back of the painting and when I saw that it had once been sold by Fenn Gallery I was convinced it was a real Cassidy and offered to buy it for $2500. The manager called the consignor and they accepted my offer, so with buyer’s commission and sales tax I paid $3326.77 for the painting, which I think was a great price.  

We then drove to Yama’s Greek Rotisserie at 2411 Cerrillos Rd. for lunch. Suzette ordered a Gyros plate with a Greek salad and a side of fried zucchini and I ordered a Spanakopita plate with a Greek salad and a cup of avgolemona (lemon, rice, and chicken) soup. We enjoyed the food and shared each of our dishes with the other.  I love spanakopita with its crisp baked crust of phyllo and a filling of spinach and feta cheese.

After lunch we drove home and arrived in time watch the bidding at Bonham’s in L.A. on an Agnes Pelton pastel that fetched a winning bid of $16,000 and then Suzette won the bid on the next lot, a Virginia True flower.

It was an exciting day of buying art. At 3:00 we lay down to nap, but I was awakened at 3:30 by a call to meditate, which I did until 4:00.

We then watched the news until 6:00 when we cooked dinner.

We decided to use some of the roasted pork sirloin to make one of our favorite tapas by Jose Andres; sautéed apple and onion, baked with pork and garnished with oregano stems and reduced with chicken broth and flambéed with brandy.

In a separate skillet Suzette sautéed a dozen shishito  peppers in olive oil until they wilted and then added them to the pork tapa like patron peppers in Galicia, Spain.

We served the pork tapa with slices of South Valley Sourdough bread from Bosque Bakery and leftover broccoli and cauliflower.

I opened a bottle of 2018 Rivallana Gran Reserva Rioja (Costco) that was smooth as silk and went well with the roasted pork tapa.

After dinner I toasted several more slices of bread and wedges of brie cheese and we had a cheese course.

Later I ate a Swedish dessert with tea and Suzette ate a bowl of chocolate cherry ice cream.

We went to bed at 9:00 after a lovely day.

Bon Appetit 

November 10, 2026 Breakfast - Granola Lunch - Viet Pho with Mike. Dinner - Chicken Cesar Sskad

Another rough day for Nvidia, so I did not check my portfolio but I assume it is down about 14%.

I ate granola with milk, yogurt, and 1/2 plum cubed for breakfast around 7:45.

 

Then I worked at my desk paying property taxes until 11:00 when I called Mike to confirm lunch. We met at East Ocean at 11:20 but it was closed so we drove to Viet Pho on Menaul.

We each ordered bowls of soup. Mike ordered rice noodles with shrimp and imitation crab. I ordered chicken soup with seafood (Shrimp and squid), slices of roasted pork, and wontons. The wontons were ground pork meatballs heavily seasoned with black pepper wrapped in rice paper wrappers. We also split an order of two spring rolls containing roast pork that we dipped in a wonderful peanut sauce.

We talked about mostly tech stuff as Mike is now programming using A-I until 1:30.

I then drove home and watched the market close.

Suzette soon arrived and we napped from 2:30 to 3:30.

Then at 4:00 we rode our bikes around the neighborhood.

When we returned we rested and watched the news and the an episode of Lupin.

Dinner - We decided to make a chicken Cesar salad for dinner. I deboned and cubed the meat from two cooked chicken legs while Suzette made croutons from hamburger buns. She chopped two heads of Romaine lettuce and grated some Parmesan cheese and cut several cherry tomatoes from our garden in half. I then rubbed the inside of the large teak salad bowl with garlic and made a dressing in the bowl with 1/4 cup of fresh lemon juice, about 1 1/2 T. of anchovies chopped finely and 1/3 cup of good Chateau Ott olive oil. I whisked the dressing ingredients until smooth and the added an egg and whisked to mix.

We then added the lettuce, tomatoes, grated Parmesan cheese, croutons, and chicken to the salad bowl and tossed to coat the ingredients with dressing.

Suzette divided the salad into two pasta bowls and I opened the chilled bottle of 2020 Gavi Mauro Sebaste white wine.

The wine was elegant and the Cesar salad was excellent. It was a lovely dinner.

We then watched two more episodes of Lupin and went to bed at 9:00, Suzette to sleep and I to blog.

Bon Appetit

November 9, 2026 Lunch - seafood soup. Dinner - music and food at Nikelle and David’s Cabin in Nob Hill I awakened at 7:00 and was busy during the morning working on consolidating my stocks into Charles Schwab accounts. At noon I reheated the leftover seafood soup that we made the other day with a bit of water to fill my big lotus bowl with soup and I toasted a flour tortilla on the gas burner of the stove. I drank last half of the Negra Modelo from lunch several days ago to finish the meal . I then checked the market. The Dow closed up 1109 points and the NASDAQ closed up 683 points, but the scandal of Jensen’ extra-marital affair with a possible Chinese spy caused Nvidia shares to close down $8.00, So, my portfolio gained only 1,4%.

November 9, 2026  Lunch - seafood soup. Dinner - music and food at Nikelle and David’s Cabin in Nob Hill

I awakened at 7:00 and was busy during the morning working on consolidating my stocks into Charles Schwab accounts.

At noon I reheated the leftover seafood soup that we made the other day with a bit of water to fill my big lotus bowl with soup and I toasted a flour tortilla on the gas burner of the stove. I drank last half of the Negra Modelo from lunch several days ago to finish the meal 

I then checked the market. The Dow closed up 1109 points and the NASDAQ closed up 683 points, but the scandal of Jensen’ extra-marital affair with a possible Chinese spy caused Nvidia shares to close down $8.00, So, my portfolio gained only 1,4%.

I walked around the block at 3:00 and then started sautéing onions in the large casserole at 3:45.

Dinner - Suzette arrived at 4:15 and took over and added the bowl of green cabbage to the onions and went to the garden and harvested the stems of a flat Italian parsley plant that I de-stemmed and minced. 

I then diced three smoked pork chops that Suzette sautéed and added to the casserole and left on low heat while we napped from 6:15 to 7:00 when we drove to Nikelle and David’s log cabin house at 212 Tulane SE with the casserole and a bottle of 2019 Red Newt Bordeaux blend of Merlot, Cabernet , and Cabernet Franc.

We placed our casserole on the table with the beans, tamales, Posole and condiments Nikelle made. There were at least 24 people. We sat by Neal Cooperman during dinner and discussed the Music business. His company produces 150 shows a year in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe area.

After dinner almost everyone picked up a stringed instrument and there were several Scottish fiddle pieces and then a large number of New Mexico traditional songs and pieces sprinkled with a few self written songs.

We stayed until 9:30 and were home and on our way to bed before 10:00 except I watched Rachel Maddow’s monologue for about 15 minutes.

Bon Appetit

November 8, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - Caldo de Mariscos. Dinner - Beef Sort Ribs cooked in the Boeuf Bourguignon style with roasted carrots from the garden Mashed Potatoes and a Mushroom Sauce Another exceptional food day.

November 8, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - Caldo de Mariscos. Dinner - Beef Sort Ribs cooked in the Boeuf Bourguignon style with roasted carrots from the garden Mashed Potatoes and a Mushroom Sauce Another exceptional food day.

It started simply enough with a bowl of granola with milk, yogurt, and red seedless grapes.

We then covered the raised bed containing chard, basil, and parsley, and Suzette cleaned out the remaining Cosmos from the beds and harvested the carrots growing in the raised bed, while I watched Sunderland beat Chelsea and Aston Villa tie Man Union 4 to 4 in a crazy match.

Lunch - 1 plus 1 = 1 plus 2. We combined the leftover Vuelve de la Vida caldo from La Playa with the leftover paella from Vara and added a dozen mussels in garlic sauce, water, and a sautéed minced chorizo link to make a super seafood soup. There was so much soup leftover that I filled two containers with soup for future lunches.

Then at 2:00 we drove to El Super, where we bought lemons, limes, avocados, cabbage, plain yogurt, six smoked chops, white potatoes, plums, three Bosc pears, a cucumber, two links of Aztecs chorizo, and three beef short ribs.

When we returned home we decided to cook the short ribs in the style of Boeuf Bourguignon for dinner with roasted carrots and Mashed Potatoes.

Suzette fried bacon and removed the bacon and then braised the short ribs in the bacon fat and removed the short ribs and braised 1 cup of  carrots and a diced onion and then added 2 cups each of beef stock and Pinot Noir wine to cover the short ribs and baked the short ribs in a 325 degree oven for 2 hours until the short ribs were cooked and the liquid greatly reduced.

Luke called at 6:00 to say hello and we talked until 6:10 whhen we range off in order to watch Miss Fisher on PBS.

At 7:00 Suzette peeled and diced and boiled the two White potatoes we bought and at I cubed four portobello mushrooms and 1/2 shallot and sautéed them in olive oil and butter. When the mushrooms were cooked we added them to the short ribs. The we removed the short ribs from the casserole and Suzette made a mushroom brown sauce.

Then Suzette whipped the potatoes with milk and butter in the Kitchenaid mixer while I uncorked the 2024 Minjaud Bandol red we bought at the winery.

At 7:30 we called Willy and then Suzette finished whipping the mashed potatoes. Suzette plated three pasta bowls with .a puddle of mushroom sauce, then covered that with mashed potatoes, and then a beef short rib on top and sprinkled roasted carrots on the side of the pile.

I poured glasses of wine and Suzette placed the three bowl on the table.

Willy arrived around 7:45 and joined us for dinner.

He told us about Alan’s wedding yesterday and we all were excited by the wonderful dinner and wine.

At 8:00 we watched Maigret on PBS and wilky cleaned some me dishes and then left.

Suzette went to bed at 9:00 but I stayed up to watch Chicago beat Tampa Bay and eat a Swedish dessert with a cup of tea.

I went t bed when the game ended with field goal.

Then I went to bed and blogged this entry.

Bon Appetit