Eating with Bob and Suzette

Sunday, August 30, 2026

August 30, 2026 Breakfast - Toasted Cheese and jam Sandwiches Lunch - Lentil Stew, mushroom, and hotdog omelet. Dinner - Stir fried Egg noodles with mushroom, wood ear, leeks and steak

Most of the day was spent working at our desks, except we did some gardening and then rode our bikes around the neighborhood.

I woke up at 7:30 and ate toasted baguette smeared with butter and cherry preserves and garnished with slices of Jarlsberg cheese with a chai.

At 1:30 we were hungry so I sliced four portobello mushrooms and a shallot and we sautéed those ingredients with the leftover lentil stew with hotdogs leftover from last night’s dinner and added four whisked eggs and 4 orange cherry tomatoes cut in half.

At 6:00 we watched Miss Fisher and snacked on cheddar cheese slices and Ritz crackers.

Dinner - at 7:00 we began dinner prep.

I sliced the white part of three leeks, the rest of the fresh wood ears, 1/2 of a big Jim green chili, three cloves of garlic, about a T. of ginger, and 3 oz. of brown beech mushrooms plus 3/4 lb. of rib steak into 1 inch by 1/4 inch long strips.

Suzette fetched the wok and made a seasoning sauce with about 1-2 T. each of sweet soy, red miso, hoisin sauce, and mirin.

When Willy arrived at 7:15 we started cooking. Suzette stir fried the ingredients in the wok in peanut oil.

Then she boiled 1/2 lb. of fresh egg noodles in boiling water for two minutes and then added them to the wok and added the seasoning sauce and mixed the ingredients for a couple of minutes to coat everything with sauce and then filled three bowls with the noodle mixture.

I opened a bottle of Cahors French Malbec and poured three glasses.

After dinner we watch an episode of Ted Lasso ate a few forks filled with the fresh peach cobbler Suzette made while i was prepping ingredients from peaches grown at the Center..

Then at noodles were delicious and the cobbler was amazing.

We watched an episode of Ted Lasso, said goodnight to Willy, and went to bed at 8:30.

Bon Appetit

August 29, 2026 Breakfast - Men on an Island. Lunch - Plants of the Southwest Garden Center Dinner - Leftover Lentil Stew with Bologna and rice

I woke up at 7:30 because we were going to Santa Fe for the day.

I fixed two men on Islands for breakfast, one for each of us (an egg fried onto a skillet toasted slice of whole wheat bread). We left at 9:00 and gassed up at Costco and then drove to Santa Fe.

We first went to Charlotte Jackson’s Gallery to pick up my Ron Davis work. Suzette became infatuated with the glittering polycarbonate spheres by a local artist and I decided on the spot to buy the one Suzette like for her birthday present.

We decided to return and pick the two pieces up after lunch.

We then drove to the Turner Carrol Gallery on Canyon Rd. to see its Christo exhibit. The exhibit was lithographs all priced from $15,00 to $20,000 each. I told Jeffrey, the attendant I had a real Christo and got huffy and said, “These are all real Christos.”

I replied, “But my Christo was made handmade by Christo with a collage of the site photo and plastic foam used to surround the islands in Biscayne Bay in 1983.”

I got his attention when I said I might let them sell my Christo and he gave me his card.

When I returned home after 4:00 I sent him the information and provenance on the work.

The result is that the owner will come Monday to inspect the work and discuss consignment.

It was just after noon when we drove to the Plants of the Southwest garden center for a birthday lunch. We met Amy whose birthday was the 28th, Vahl whose birthday is the 30th, and Suzette’s is August 25th.

Willy drove up in his newly repaired car to join us. Lunch is served Thursday through Saturday and it is 2 course table d’ hotel at a fixe prix of $28.00 with drinks and dessert extra.

Everyone except me ordered hibiscus iced tea. The first course was 2 okaters of summer vegetables dressed with lemon juice and olive oil. There must have been five or six different tomatoes that are at the height of their ripeness plus cucumber, cooked eggplant, red onion, and local feta cheese. It reminded me of the amazing tomato salads we ate in Cantabria.

After we finished most of the salad we were each served a pasta bowl filled with a vegetable and dark bread stew that included baby zucchini, carrots, and several other vegetables topped with a thick slice of the local feta cheese. The tomatoes had cooked into the vegetable broth.

I had trouble finishing because there was so much.

We decided against dessert.

We said goodbye to everyone and drove to the pie Project near Santa Fe Auction to see the Larry Bell works. We were disappointed. The quality was low and the prices were high, but there were several early Florence Pierce white resin pieces made before she added color.

We the returned to Charlotte Jackson’s and picked up our two works. Charlotte was ecstatic because she had sold out the exhibit.

We loaded the pieces and drove home, arriving around 4:00.

I rested until 5:00 and at 6:00 we watched Bill Maher. At 7:00 we started cooking dinner.

Dinner - we had a small container of lentil stew from Friday’s lunch at Bobcat Bites. Suzette diced the slices of Bologna added that and some leftover rice to the stew. It was a simple meal of leftovers that exemplify how we combine and covert PPIs into new dishes.

We watched Father Brown and Death in Paradise with a dessert of the last of Suzette’s birthday cake, a lime and lavender flavored cookie with cordial glasses of Vara Late Harvest Albariño and went to bed at 10:00 after a very pleasant day of art and a wonderful vegetarian lunch with family.

Bon Appetit

Friday, August 28, 2026

August 27, 2026 Breakfast - Herring Sandwiches. Lunch - Bobcat Bites. Dinner - Leftover Chirashi

I toasted two slices of Bosque Bakery South Valley Sourdough, spread them with sour cream and garnished them with thin slices of red onion, and herring in wine sauce for breakfast with a cup of chai.

Nvidia’s earnings were up 70% and the stock was up over $15.00 early.

I walked to Charlie’s and he drove Peter and me to Bobcat Bites to meet the other 5 members of the book club for lunch at 11:30. Pradip and I ordered lentil stew again and many others ordered lamb burgers and lamb enchiladas.

Lentil stew with rice

Then at 1:00 we drove to Pradip’s house for our book club meeting that lasted until 3:45.

When I returned home I rested for a few minutes and then Suzette and I drove to Walgreens’s to pick some meds and then to Lowe’s where we bought milk, eggs, avocados, tonic water, and Club soda.

When we returned home we worked at our desks for 1 1/2 hours and then prepared dinner.

Thanks to Nvidia going up $18.36 and Salesforce going up $46.43 I had my best day ever in the market. My portfolio gained 2.9%.

We ate the leftover Chirashi from last night’s dinner at Ichiban. We heated the sushi rice and Suzette finished the bottle of sake. The fish was not as fresh but still quite wonderful and the sushi rice could have been Japanese rice.

Suzette sliced one of the avocados because she likes avocado with her sushi.

She ate the leftover Pompeii roll as a snack when she returned home.

After dinner we watched Midsomer Murders and ate some of her birthday cake

At 9:15 Suzette went to bed and I watched George Gently until 11:00 when I got in bed.

Bon Aappeti

August 28, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Snack - Ham Danish lunch - Leftover Lentil Stew with rice. Dinner - BLT Sandwich with Tomato Bisque

I ate granola and then rode around the block. I then edited a pleading and a rental lease extension by 12:30

At 10:30 I took a break and ate the last 1/2 of the ham and cheese Danish from Whole Foods that Monica and Aaron brought last weekend with a cup of Earl Grey with collagen.

At 12:45 I drove to Shahin’s and completed the five annual tax returns.

When I returned home at 3:00 I ate the lentil stew with rice from yesterday’s book club lunch at Bobcat Bites with a dab of sour cream to dampen the strong flavor of cumin and chili and drank water.

I then edited and filed a pleading in an appeal.

Suzette was at home when I arrived and by 5:00 she was hungry. I suggested that we wait an hour and she agreed.

Dinner - we had one large ripe tomato from a plant in the garden that we have been waiting for several days to make into a BLT Sandwich and today was BLT Day.

Suzette fried five or six slices of thick cut bacon and sliced and toasted three slices of whole wheat sourdough bread and fetched the lettuce, and Mayo and bread and butter pickles.

I poured the last two glasses of Trader Joe’s Bandol rose’.

Suzette also heated the tomato bisque her new chef made by roasting ripe tomatoes and garnished the soup with shredded AOC Pecorino-Romano cheese from Costco.

Dinner was delightful. We then watched extended coverage of stage 8 of the Vuelta de Espana.

Today King Harald of Norway died and his son was installed as the new King, so it was appropriate that two Norwegians won the stage and came second.

I went to bed at 8:30 and watched NFL football and Suzette joined and we switched the a Firing Line with Margaret Hoover interviewing Majorie Taylor Greene.

Suzette went to sleep and I watched Denver smash the Minnesota Vikings 6 to 34.

Then I dozed after the game.

Bon Appetit