Eating with Bob and Suzette

Friday, August 21, 2026

August 21, 2026 Breakfast - Granola Lunch - Pho Linh. Dinner - Leftover Bobby Flay Chicken and Ratatouille

It was a productive day. I reviewed my Reply in the water case and filed it by 3:45.

I woke up at 6:00 and ate a bowl of granola with yogurt, blueberries and milk at 7:30.

Then at 8:30 I rode my bike around the neighborhood.

I then showered and dressed and worked at my desk until 11:00 when I Picked Robert at his office and drove us to Pho Linh near Eubank and Central.

We each ordered our usual, bun cha Gio for me and rice with vegetables and tofu for Robert.

We discussed a troublesome client of Robert’s.

Then when we returned to Robert’s office, which includes a shop and living quarters where he keeps a car collection, he showed me his newly purchased 1938 Simca 5.

I then drove home and finished my review of the reply

At 4:15 I finished the filing and heated the Vietnamese Noodle Soup from yesterday’s lunch and Suzette and I shared it.

dinner.

We were still hungry for dinner so at 6:30 we heated the leftover ratatouille and several of the Bobby Flay chicken thigh leftover from last night’s

I opened a 2013 Red Newt Bullhorn Creek Riesling that was sensational. It had that magic balance of extreme sweetness and minerality that make Finger Lake Rieslings so impressive. Suzette, who is usually low keyed about wines was struck by its intensity.

We loved dinner. Leftovers can be wonderful.

After dinner we drank another glass of Riesling and watched a terrific episode of finding your Roots about Depok Chupra, Sting, and Sally Fields. Sally’s tenth great grandfather arrived in America on the Mayflower in 1620. Chopra’s dad was aide de camp to Lord Mountbatten in WWII and a physician.

It was an impressive show.

We went to bed after it at 9:45.

Bon Appetit

Thursday, August 20, 2026

August 20, 2026. Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate. Lunch - Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup. Dinner - Sautéed Salmon, Roasted Potatoes and onions and Cole Slaw

I awakened at 2:30 and edited my reply until 4:00 and watched the news for 30 minutes and went back to bed and slept until 8:00

I ate a pain au chocolate with a latte macchiato and finished the edit by 12:30.

I decided to make Vietnamese noodle soup with the meat of one of the baked chicken thighs, seaweed, 1 bundle each of wheat and rice vermicelli noodles, a handful of chopped Napa cabbage and a handful of spinach, two shiitake mushrooms sliced thinly, and 1/2 shallot minced plus a cube of Pho seasoning, 1/2 T. of chicken stock, and a heaping T. of red miso.

I cooked all the ingredients for about 20 minutes and added five chicken dumplings and cooked the noodles another fifteen minutes and added some water to bring the volume to about 1 3/4 quarts.

Then I thinly sliced two green onions and salvaged some cilantro to garnish the noodles and squirted the bowl of noodles with hoisin.

I drank a cup of green tea with the noodles and ate two bowls.

I then worked on other matters until 6:30.

Dinner - Suzette started cooking dinner around 6:00. She sautéed The salmon filet I bought two days ago and reheated the leftover roasted potatoes and onions. When those two items were cooked, she plated them with a pile of the Cole slaw made a few days ago and poured out the last of the 2023 Claire Patelin French Sauvignon Blanc.

We enjoyed dinner and after dinner shared the last beso de Nuez wedding cookie.

At 7:30 I.lay down to read and napped until 8:15 when I got ready for bed and blogged and talked to Suzette until 9:00 and went to bed.

Bon Appetit

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

August 17, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate. Lunch - Burritos from Perico’s. Dinner - Ratatouille with sautéed steak.

I spent most of the day working on pleadings with Henry who brought a carne adovado and a chichirone burrito that we split.

Dinner - I heated the ratatouille and diced the remaining leftover grilled rib steak. Suzette sautéed the steak and we ate bowls of ratatouille with steak.

I opened a bottle of Acacia Brunello di Montalcino for a wonderful treat.

Willy came by later and ate a bowl of ratatouille.

I went to bed at 11:00 and slept until 7:00 with getting up a few times to pee.

Bon Appetit

August 18, 2026 Breakfast - Two Men on an Island. Lunch - Padilla’s New Mexican Restaurant. Dinner - Salmon Taco with Coke Slaw

I woke at 7:00 and immediately saw that the Market was selling off.

Today I had a good breakfast of two men on an island with chai with collagen.

Then I rode around the neighborhood on my recumbent bicycle.

When I returned to my office I filled a prescription and made an appointment at the sleep medicine center for Thursday night.

I also edited my reply in the water case to near final.

At 12:00 I went Padilla’s for lunch. I ordered enchiladas with beans, red chili, and extra onions. The plate was $13.50 but the quality was better than Mary and Tito’s and each plate is served with hot sopapillas that are wonderful. So I shall go to Padilla’s for a change.

I then went home and finished the edit of the reply by 4:45.

I watched the news until Suzette came home at 5:15 and I then drove to Padilla’s to pay for my lunch, since I had forgotten my wallet at lunch.

Then I drove to Smith’s and bought two small salmon filets, two packages of chicken thighs, a bunch of spinach, some green beans, and romaine lettuce.

When I returned Suzette diced one of the filets and fried the cubes of salmon and toasted flour tortillas, and shredded some romaine, and diced an avocado and went to the garden and picked several small orange tomatoes and went filled the toasted tortillas with those ingredients and ate salmon tacos with leftover cole slaw for dinner.

Suzette put chopped bread and butter pickles into the Cole slaw that added sweetness and texture to the Cole Slaw.

After dinner we watched an interesting 2022 movie that switched back and forth between two different plots titled Look Both Ways with Lilli Reinhardt that we liked very much.

We went to bed at 9:30.

I have an ultrasound appointment at 7:00 at Pres, so I need to get to bed.

Bon Appetit

Sunday, August 16, 2026

August 16, 2026 Breakfast - Granola and Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Pork, Potato Pancake, and Fried Egg. Dinner - Pork Tacos with Cole Slaw

I awakened around 7:30 and ate around 8:30. We were hoping to ride bikes, so I ate a bowl of granola with milk, blueberries and yogurt and then drank a chai with Collagen with a pain au Chocolate. I was feeling good all day.

We red at 9:00 around the neighborhood and Suzette rode really well today. I hope she is feeling less pain.

Then at 11:30 Suzette stated lunch. She heated the leftover two potato pancakes and pork, apple, and onion entree from last night’s dinner. She fried two eggs and stacked 1/2 of the pork slice on a reheated potato pancake and lay a fried egg on top of the pork for a rather tasty and elegant brunch.

Suzette also toasted two slices of Country bread that I buttered and spread fresh peach, fig, and quince compote on.

Suzette fetched and opened a bottle of Spanish Columna Albarino that was very tart. It obviously had not been aged on the leas, the skins and seeds.

After lunch I lay down to read The invention of Morell by Casares and nap until 4:00 when I started preparing ratatouille.

I diced a medium Ichiban eggplant, two medium onions, three zucchini, and two green bell peppers and cooked those ingredients in 3 T. of olive oil in a large casserole.

I then went to the garden and picked four stalks of oregano, stripped the leaves, and finely minced them and added the approximately 1 cup of oregano to the ratatouille. Then I diced three tomatoes and added them and cooked the ratatouille until 7:00.

Dinner - Around 5:30 Suzette made dinner. She finely diced some of the pork loin she had roasted and sautéed it with slices of red onion, diced 1/2 of a large avocado and halved some of the cherry tomatoes from our garden. She then heated four corn tortillas wrapped in wet paper towels in the microwave to soften them.

She then plated each plate with two tortillas and covered them with the pork and onion mixture, avocado, tomatoes, and some of the Cole slaw she made last night.

I fetched two Negra Modelos from the garage fridge and we ate a lovely meal.

After dinner we watched another movie. This one was titled I’ll Be Right There and starred Edie Falco. When I read Wikipedia about her I discovered that she is a Buddhist and the movie has that vibe from helping everyone to just enjoin a beautiful sunset and realizing she enjoys helping her family and others.

I then watched the last forty minutes of a MLS match between Dallas and Austin that Dallas won2 to 1.

We then went to bed.

Bon Appetit