June 9, 2026 Breakfast Granola with mango yogurt, milk, and blueberries Lunch -two fried Men on a raft and a smoked pork chop Dinner - Teriyaki Salmon with rice, asparagus, and snow peas and Japanese pickles.

June 9, 2026 Breakfast Granola with mango yogurt, milk, and blueberries Lunch -two fried Men on a raft and a smoked pork chop  Dinner - Teriyaki Salmon with rice, asparagus, and snow peas and Japanese pickles.

I woke up at 8:00. Suzette was on her way out to the garden to pick peas, so I threw clothes on and joined her to pick peas and then to shuck peas and de-stem snow peas. Suzette then blanched them for a peas in salted water, dried them, and bagged and froze them.

Suzette then went to work.

I ate a bowl of granola with milk, mango yogurt and blueberries.

The market started going down with Apple leading it down, ending $11.00 lower at $209.55. ARM also went down $21,53. My portfolio went down almost 1.5%.

After making teriyaki sauce and marinating the two salmon filets and turning the deal on filets Curing in salt and sugar and reviewing and deleting many emails, at around 10:30 I drove to Costco to pick up two prescriptions and said hello to Joe and Mary McKinney.

When I returned home I decided to sauté a smoked pork chop and two men on a raft (a fried egg on a slice of bread toasted in butter) for lunch.

Willy came by to pick up packages and ate his kale salad from Vinaigrette while I ate my eggs and smoked pork chop with him.

Then I checked the market and lay down for a 45 minute nap.

At 3:30 I drove to Half-life and picked up the rent check.

When I returned I changed unto biking clothes and rode around the neighborhood.

When I returned Suzette was cutting a cedar board to grill the salmon teriyaki.

I fetched the rice and Suzette snapped a handful of asparagus.

I was working at my desk when Willy arrived around 6:15.

Suzette grilled the salmon and asparagus and chopped the asparagus and tossed it with rice and snow peas and heated 5e rice mixture in the microwave.

We poured more Lusaka-St. Emillion and I fetched some Japanese pickled red cabbage and Persian cucumbers and we ate a lovely dinner.

Willy took the remaining teriyaki salmon home and we watched finding your roots  Suzette had sliced and sugared peaches. She served bowls of vanilla ice cream covered with rye sweet peach compote for dessert.

At 8:00 I prepared a purchase agreement.

At 9:00 I put the remaining pickles in a jar and put it in the fridge.

Then I cleaned the cured salmon and wrapped it in Saran and put it in the fridge.

I took out the trash and then blogged this entry and watched Castle impossible and went to bed at 11:30.

Bon Appetit

June 8, 2026 Breakfast - Bagel and Lax. Lunch - Chicken Noodle and dumpling Miso Soup. Dinner - at Monica and Aaron’s house Grilled Tri tip Roast, Asparagus and Corn with Salad

June 8, 2026 Breakfast - Bagel and Lax.  Lunch - Chicken Noodle and dumpling Miso Soup. Dinner - at Monica and Aaron’s house Grilled Tri tip Roast, Asparagus and Corn with Salad

I had a lazy day. I was sun burned so I did not leave the house all day.

Instead I cooked.

At7:15 I toasted 1/2 bagel cut into two thin slices, spread cream cheese on the slices and garnished them with slices of red onion and gravad Lax. That I ate with a up of chai as the market opened strongly upward. But the upward momentum dissipated as the day went on and my portfolio suffered a set back when Apple slid from gain to loss after the developers’ presentation by the new president.

My portfolio had a good day, increasing by .96% but not the great day it would have had had if the close was at 10:00 a.m.

After breakfast I processed six or seven Persian cucumbers and 1/8 head of red cabbage into Japanese pickles  by chopping the ingredients and placing them in a crock pot with 5 cups of rice vinegar, two cups of water, 2 T. of salt, 5 T. of.sugar following the recipe in the Japanese cooking: the Simple Art cookbook.

Then around 11:30 for lunch I boiled a chicken thigh with onion, a chopped carrot and stalk of celery to make a broth. The broth was weak until I pulled the  thigh into pieces and added a T. of red miso and a cube of pho seasoning, one of which had lots of salt. I then added a bundle of rice vermicelli and seven dumplings and some seaweed. Finally I added two pork balls sliced and 6 snow peas cut into thirds.  The result was very tasty especially with thinly sliced green onion,  a drizzle of hoisin sauce and fresh cilantro leaves.

I ate 1 1/2 bowls. Suzette ate some of the soup when she came home at 3:00.

It was windy and raining, so we did not ride bike together.

Instead we rested until 5:30 and then packed up a bottle of the Lussac-St. Emillion, a bunch of Asparagus, and a pear and drove to Monika and Aaron’s house in Tanzania East.for dinner. Aaron’s daughter, Alexi is a pretty and precocious 12 year old, was the official server for the meal. Aaron had bought shrimp and a cheese cake at Costco and two tip roasts and corn at Smith’s.

When we arrived Monica poured us glasses of Petite Petite, a red blend of petite Verdot and Petite Sirah. The wine was a little heavy but very drinkable.

Soon Alexi brought a large parfait glass ringed with large boiled shrimp and Monica brought small bowls of cocktail sauce and we nibbled shrimp and talked while Aaron grilled the meat, corn, and asparagus for a wonderful grilled dinner.

Monica made a Cesar salad also.

The tri tip steak was cooked perfectly to medium rare and was delicious. Aaron and Monica showed us the bottle of Kinder’s meat rub they had rubbed on the steak that they had bought at Costco and Suzette read the ingredients and they sounded really good.

It took me ten minutes longer than everyone else to finish eating but an extra bowl of salad was a must as was two slices of steak.

Finally, when I finished Aaron sliced slices of a lovely baked cheese cake from Costco.

Perhaps the best news was that on Aaron’s trip to Denver he was successful in getting Anadarko as a customer.

That is not quire correct, the best news was that Aaron’s medical issue was resolved and he was feeling much better.

Any 9:00 we eats goodnight after a lovely meal that felt like a fancy restaurant because of the excellent personal table service by Alexi.

We drove home and Suzette did laundry and I prepared a dish of gravad lax.

I had bought two full filets, so we had two large tail end filets and two smaller belly filets left after the 9 inch long filets for the gravad lax were cit. I was really tired so Suzette wrapped the two smaller filets and froze them for a future meal and bagged the tail filets that I will make into teriyaki salmon for dinner tomorrow evening to eat with rice and Japanese pickles.

We finally fell into bed after the laundry was dry at 10:00 and the graced lax weighted with a brick in the fridge.

All in all it was a big day of cooking, with a lovely meal and hospitality thrown in.

Bon Appetit

  

June 7, 2026 Breakfast - an Almond Croissant and a Mushroom and cheese omelet, a smoked pork chop, and Cottage fried potatoes Dinner - Grilled steak, cottage fried potatoes, and steamed asparagus

June 7, 2026 Breakfast - an Almond Croissant and a Mushroom and cheese omelet, a smoked pork chop, and Cottage fried potatoes  Dinner - Grilled steak, cottage fried potatoes, and steamed asparagus

Today was the employee appreciation dinner at the Center at 4:00

We got up around 7:00 and I watched news and Suzette exercised.

Then I made a lovely 4 egg omelet with sautéed sliced mushroom, garlic, and minced red onion plus slices of triple cream cheese.

In a separate skillet Suzette sautéed a smoked pork chop and diced potatoes.

It was a large breakfast but we did not eat any lunch.

Instead at 11:30 I drove to Smith’s and bought two salmon filets, a carton of vanilla ice cream, two bunches of asparagus, three shallots, and two liter bottles of tonic water.

At 1:50 we drove to the Center and helped set up for the party.

I opened five bottles of 2022 Lussac- St. Emilion, but only one was consumed. It was mostly a beer crowd.

At 4:00 Suzette grilled steaks and I sliced them for the attendees.

Suzette gave a speech in which she mentioned me and thanked me.

It was a pleasant afternoon garden party in the big field under the big tent with the band playing on the stage and the poet writing poems for attendees beside the secret garden.

There was lots of kitchen help that set up tables and chairs and set the tables and made salad, baked potatoes, BBQ sauce, and sautéed sweet peppers and onions to garnish the T-bone steaks that Suzette grilled and I sliced.

Everyone ate as much as they wanted and there were 13 steaks left that Suzette will give to those staff that helped.

Suzette gave the five longest employed money leis we made and there was a poet writing poems for people and a good band, Back in Time, a raffle, and a scavenger hunt. So lots of employees got presents and recognition.

We left after the party ended at 6:00. Dan from the kitchen brought two to go plastic platters and lids and we filled them with steak, a potato and some sweet peppers and onion.

When we returned home we had a cocktail to recover from all the activity and then I steamed fifteen asparagus.

Suzette quickly diced sautéed cooked steak and baked potato and some of the sautéed sweet peppers and onion.

I sliced five or six chive stalks and we added sour cream and chives to the diced sautéed potatoes and drank glasses of the 2022 Lussac-St. Emillion for dinner.

This was a wonderful dinner. I packed slices of them or the filet mignonette side of the steak for us, so it was an excellent dinner

Willy came by after his hike and Suzette sautéed diced steak, potato, and asparagus for him. We talked about a house he is looking at to buy.

When he left around 9:00 Suzette went to bed and I blogged this entry.

Bon Appetit