July 27, 2026 Breakfast - Granola Lunch - Pickled Herring Sandwiches. Dinner - Sautéed Smoked Pork cutlet with Rancho Gordo Pinto Beans and Calabacitas

July 27, 2026 Breakfast - Granola  Lunch - Pickled Herring Sandwiches. Dinner - Sautéed Smoked Pork cutlet with Rancho Gordo Pinto Beans and Calabacitas

Today I woke up at 3:30 and went back to sleep after a cup of chai at 4:30 and slept until 9:15.

It was a dreamy day spent mostly reading Sense and Sensibility, which I finished in the evening.  I loved Austen’s syntax and insight into the workings of the human mind as it manifested in civil society of 1811.

I wanted to have a solid breakfast that would stick with me for the day, so I ate granola with milk, blueberries, and plain yogurt again today at around 10:00.

Then I checked the mail and worked at my desk until 12:00 when Suzette came home. I toasted two slices of French country style bread and spread them with sour cream and garnished them with pickled herring and slices of onion for a quick lunch.

Then I drove Suzette to Kaseman for a procedure. We returned home at 3:30 and while she rested until 4:30 I read.

She had not eaten so she sautéed two Hormel smoked pork cutlets and heated the Rancho Gordo pinto beans she cooked yesterday with chorizo, carrots, and onion.

I heated the leftover Calabacitas and we ate an interesting quick dinner.

I drank an apple cider and Suzette drank water.

Later I ate some milk chocolate with a sip of Calvados as we watched the Antiques Roadshow.

We went to bed at 9:00.

It was a dreamy day spent mostly reading.

Bon Appetit 

July 26, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - Enchiladas and fried eggs Dinner - Sautéed chicken, steamed broccoli, pimiento, onion with a white wine sauce on falafelle pasta

July 26, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - Enchiladas and fried eggs  Dinner -  Sautéed chicken, steamed broccoli, pimiento, onion with a white wine sauce on falafelle pasta 

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

At 8:30 I drove to Pres to visit Dana who is waiting for triple bypass heart surgery tomorrow. I found him in good spirits and spent an hour talking with him.

He told me, “My dad survived rhe Batman Death March and later had open heart surgery and made it through both of those, so I think my odds are pretty good.”

At 9:30 I returned home and watched Stage 21 of the Tour, the finish on the Champs Ellysee in Paris. It was a surprisingly exciting finish with the Olympic Road Race Gold medalist, Van DerPoel, winning by a few inches after 50 miles of racing.

Suzette made lunch after the race. She heated the leftover Mary and Tito’s enchiladas and placed fried eggs on them,  I lay down after lunch and read Sense and Sensibility but around 2:30 I threw up lunch.

Afterwards I rested until 5:30 when we started dinner with a snack of a slice of toast spread with peanut butter and honey around 5:00.  I went to the garden and picked some parsley, two stalks of oregano, four sorrel leaves, and three stalks of thyme.

Dinner - Suzette gathered the ingredients, a can of pimiento, 1/2 of a Vidalia onion, four cloves of garlic. I destemmed and quartered broccoli flowerets from 1/2 head of broccoli and Suzette steamed them. She also boiled a handful of falafelle (bow tie) pasta in thyme flavored water and began sautéing the onion, garlic, and pimiento in a skillet.  I added the broccoli and then the chicken and then the herbs, plus 1/4 cup of white wine and 1 T. of capers and a handful of shredded Monterrey jack cheese and grated fresh pecorino-Romano cheese.

Willy arrived at 6:00 and helped Suzette move her sewing equipment and table out of the basement.  

I completed dinner as they finished moving furniture and we sat down for dinner with glasses of La Granja Viura and Verdejo grape blend Spanish white wine.

We talked until 7:30 when Suzette packed some enchiladas and beans for him to take home. Willy left and we watched the last 1/2 of Patience and Grantchester and then went to bed at 9:00.

Bon Appetit

July 25, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate snack - Tabouli and Chicken. Lunch - Nuchols in Santa Fe. Dinner - Tabouli and Chicken

July 25, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate  snack - Tabouli and Chicken. Lunch - Nuchols in Santa Fe. Dinner - Tabouli and Chicken

I woke at 3:15 and watched the beginning of Stage 20 of the Tour, which clearly was the most difficult stage this tear and perhaps in modern history with three over category climbs including Galibier with over 4000 feet of climbing to over 8000 feet of elevation.

Around 7:30 I ate a pain au chocolate with a cup of hot chocolate, my all time favorite French breakfast.

All the winners were decided today, including the green jersey for sprinters, the polka dot jersey for climbers, the young rider, and the three podium places, so a very meaningful stage.

At 9:00 after the stage I ate some tabouli and chicken and we wrapped the new Ron Davis piece and returned it to Charlotte Jackson’s Gallery in Santa Fe’s Rail yard to be repaired and went to Kitchen Angels, a kitchenware resale store. Walter we left the piece with Charlotte, we walked through the Farmers Market where we bought a bunch of leeks to Nuchols on the north end of the Railyard where we ate lunch. We shared a hamburger with French Fries and a Spring Salad that included pineapple, toasted sliced almonds, cherry tomatoes, arugula, spinach, red bell pepper slices, and Pickled cucumbers slices. We requested olive oil to balance the vinegar and it was better, but a long way from wonderful. Suzette drank beer and I drank apple cider.

We then drove to Owings Gallery to see the women’s exhibit but it was at the Palace street gallery and it started raining so we drove back to Albuquerque and then to Ari’s studio in Corrales to view the conservation of the Eskimo print and the Candy Wells watercolor. We decided on new acid free mats for each and I paid for the conservation and we drove home.

We rested until 6:00 when we decided to simply eat the chicken and tabouli with a yogurt, honey, minced mint, and olive oil dressing.

Then we watched the Michelle Obama documentary, Becoming, and the some news and the summary of 20 and went to bed at 9:30.

Bon Appetit

July 24, 2026 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Dinner - Chicken Enchiladas

July 24, 2026 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Dinner - Chicken Enchiladas

I attending a video seminar on water law today from 8:30 to 4:30.

At 9:30 I toasted a bagel, spread it with cream cheese, and garnished it with thin slices of red onion and Gravad lax.

Breakfast was so filling I did not eat any lunch and did not get hungry until 4:30. 

Dinner - Suzette worked at home today and went to her exercise class at 9:30 and she had not eaten lunch either, so we decided to make the chicken enchiladas we had planned for dinner. 

In the morning I had brought in the 24 oz. container of mild red chili that had partially thawed. Suzette put the chili into a sauce pan and melted itl she then deboned and chopped half of the four chicken leg thighs while I sliced about eight mushrooms and fetched the requeson and Monterrey Jack.

Suzette sliced an onion and then sautéed the sliced onion and mushrooms in oil with an added handful of dried oregano from our garden.

Suzette fetched a Pyrex baking dish abd spread a thin layer of chili on the bottom.  We then combined some red chili and chicken stock in a small skillet just large enough to hold a corn tortilla and I soaked six tortillas in the sauce and placed them in a layer on the sauce.  Then Suzette laid a layer of mushrooms and onion and poured a bit of red chili and sprinkled the layer with both cheeses.

Then I added six more sauced tortillas and Suzette spread the chopped chicken and cheese on this layer with a bit more chili.

Then I added six more sauced tortillas which got the layers close to the top of the baking dish. There was just enough space left for a sprinkle of ground cojita cheese and a bit more red chili and chicken broth to fully fill the baking dish.

We then baked the enchiladas for about 30 minutes at  350 degrees to melt the cheese and integrate the ingredients. I fetched a Negra Modelo for Suzette and a Bohemia for me and Suzette fetched the container of sour cream and we had a delicious dinner.

I was really tired and went to bed at 8:00, which worked out great because I woke up at 3:00 in time to watch the start of Stage 20 of the Tour.

Bon Appetit

July 23, 2026 Breakfast - Fried Rice and Egg Foo Young Scramble. Lunch - Mary and Tito’s. Dinner - Sashimi and Sushi rice

 July 23, 2026 Breakfast - Fried Rice and Egg Foo Young Scramble. Lunch - Mary and Tito’s. Dinner - Sashimi and Sushi rice

The two big events today were a major breakthrough in dematerializing my Indian bank shares and a major meltdown in the market. Also, I transferred my brokerage accounts from Wells Fargo Advisors to Schwab.

For breakfast I scrambled the leftover fried rice with pork and the shrimp omelet.

Then I had a long conversation with Mehdi and helped Frank with a corporate matter and watched Stage 18 of the Tour which the Ecuadorean Carapaz won on a 5 km. breakaway at the end of the stage.

At 1:30 I drove to Mary and Tito’s and ordered beef enchiladas, but could only eat 1/2 of them because I had eaten so much for breakfast. The flower arrangement on the table was lovely.

When I returned home I called Tim and he helped me move my Wells accounts to Schwab.

I then responded to the request for information from India and obtained the final construction agreements from Rahim.

Finally, at 5:30 I joined Suzette in front of the TV, who said she had not eaten lunch and was hungry, so I started preparing dinner.

Dinner - I made a cup of sushi rice that is regular rice plus a tsp. of dehydrated dashi, and 2 T. each of rice vinegar and sugar plus a dash of mirin.

Then I sliced 1/2 lb. each of Aji tuna and salmon plus five small sea  scallops. In the morning I had peeled and sliced the daikon I bought at Smith’s and pickled 1/2 in the sweet pickled ginger bottle with an addition of mirin and the other half in the jar of saltierJapanese pickles.

For dinner I filled one bowl with pickled daikon and another with pickled ginger. I also filled dipping bowls with soy sauce and fetched wasabi.

When the rice was ready I filled two rice bowls, made green tea, and Suzette fetched a beer.

We ate a lot of fish. The tuna steak had been cryovaced and was really particularly fresh.

After dinner we watched Midsomer Murders and at 99:30 Suzette went to bed.

I stayed up to watch a terrific episode of George Gently until 11:00 and then went to bed.

Bon Appetit  

uly 21, 2026 Breakfast - Shrimp Omelet Lunch - Avocado Toast Snack - Leftover Vietnamese Noodles. Dinner - Sautéed Pork Chop, Apples, oregano, onion and pomegranate

July 21, 2026 Breakfast - Shrimp Omelet  Lunch - Avocado Toast Snack - Leftover Vietnamese Noodles. Dinner - Sautéed Pork Chop, Apples, oregano, onion and pomegranate 

I slept 8 hours last night and I was more alert today and did not need a snap.

I made an omelet with 9 large Shrimp, onion, a tomato diced, beech mushrooms, four eggs whisked, and Gruyere cheese for breakfast. Suzette ate some but I put 1/2 of it in the fridge.

Then I worked at my desk. It was a very productive day that included time on Rahim’s transaction, finalizing the California easement letter agreement, and best of all, a call from Mehdi telling me he would help me get my shares in the Indian bank dematerialized.

I have been trying for over two years to get that done. I am almost unable to accept that it could happen but Mohamed and Mehdi have dematerialized and sold shares, so I am forced to believe it will happen.

At 11:00 Alex the electrician came and spent the next two hours installing the new ceiling fans we bought for the TV room.

I was happy Suzette was at home so she could check his work and pay him, as I was busy.

At 1:00 when Alex left, Suzette spread a very creamy avocado on slices of toasted baguette for a light lunch.

After lunch I drove the bike to Two Wheel bike shop to be repaired and then stopped at the bank on my way home.

When I returned home around 3:00 I ate most of the leftover No. 30 from yesterday’s lunch at Vietnam 2000 and gave the last bit to Suzette.

Then I checked my portfolio and found that it had a really good day rising 1.75%k within about 2.5% from a new all time high. Which may never happen due to the Market’s volatility due to Trump’s failed War with Iran that has opened the door for China to pass the US economically.

I then meditated from 3:30 to 4:00 and then watched Ari until 5:00.

We decided to cook the chicken I bought for enchiladas, so I chopped two carrots, 1/4 onion, and two stalks of celery and added the four leg quarters and enough water to cover the chicken and simmered the chicken for two hours.

While I was preparing the chicken for cooking, Suzette boned and diced two pork chops and picked and seeded and sliced three or four small Granny Smith apples from our tree in the garden and sautéed those ingredients with some oregano from our garden with the seeds of 1/2 of a small pomegranate from our garden.

She also heated the Calabacitas that we made yesterday and we ate a pleasant dinner of the deconstructed pork tapa on a pile of Calabacitas with glasses of Red Tail Ridge Dry Rose that was a pleasant wine without any fireworks of flavor.

We then called Willy to tell him there was enough food left for him and he came over around 6:45 and ate the same dinner with a glass of Luis Gordonus ??? Rioja Tempranillo.

We watched Finding Your Roots and then Willy left.

Suzette went to bed at 8:00 and I followed around 9:00 after a cup of chai, with a sip of cognac mixed with Grand Marnier and two squares of dark chocolate with almonds.

Bon Appetit