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

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

 

August 15, 2026 Breakfast - Granola Lunch - BPT Sandwich Dinner - Sautéed Stuffed Pork Tender with apples and onions and Potato Pancakes

August 15, 2026 Breakfast - Granola  Lunch - BPT Sandwich  Dinner - Sautéed Stuffed Pork Tender with apples and onions and Potato Pancakes

I woke up and worked from 2:30 to 5:00. Then I fell back to sleep until 8:00 when I ate a bowl of granola with milk, yogurt, and blueberries.

Then I drank a latte macchiato with collagen, which has become a beneficial daily habit.

Then I picked figs and cherry tomatoes in the garden and at noon Suzette made BLT sandwiches without lettuce with tomatoes and parsley from our garden and slices of avocado on French country whole wheat bread.

I opened the bottle of Gruet 2018 Petite Meunier rose and drank a glass with my two open faced sandwiches.

Henry arrived while I was finishing my lunch and we spent several hours working on his case.

Suzette went to Home Depot to purchase bug bombs and outdoor lighting for the Center.

Dinner - Then at 4:30 when she returned we discussed dinner. We had planned to use the cooked stuffed pork loin but needed a vegetable to go with it.

Suzette made two suggestions, to make our favorite roasted pork tapa with slices of several of the apples from our tree, onion, and oregano from our garden, flambéed with brandy and to make potato pancakes with two Yukon Gold potatoes we grew in our garden. 

Suzette began prepping the tapa while I worked until 5:30 on Henry’s case.

Then I joined Suzette and prepped the potato pancakes by shredding two potatoes and mixing the shredded potato with one T. of flour, two eggs and a tsp. of salt.

While I shredded potato, Suzette made cole slaw by shredding some cabbage, a carrot or two, and some apple plus Mayo and sour cream

Then Suzette sautéed the apple and onion slices in the large French skillet and added three slices of bacon wrapped stuffed pork loin and heated the other skillet in which she had fried the bacon for lunch and I dropped four piles of potato into the hot bacon greased skillet.

When the pancakes cooked to golden brown on one side Suzette flipped them to cook and brown the other side.

Then I fetched the E & J cooking brandy. Suzette put six or seven sprigs of oregano on top of the pork slices and poured about 1/4 cup of brandy into the French skillet and lit the brandy. It flambéed for several minutes. Here is a photo of the fire in the skillet.

When the fire stopped and the potato pancakes cooked to golden brown on both sides Suzette plated plates with a potato pancake and a slice of pork and some of the flambéed sliced apple and onion sauce.

We fetched the sour cream and I poured glasses of the Gruet 2018 Petite Meunier Rose and we smeared sour cream on the potato pancake and ate a lovely flavorful meal.

We then put the remaining slice of pork and sauce in one container and the remaining two potato pancakes in a container into the fridge.

After dinner we poured out the remaining rose and watched The Longest Week, a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Glanz. The film stars Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde and Billy Crudup in the lead roles. We actually liked the film’s plot fashioned on elements of the plot of Sense and Sensibility in which there is competition between two men, a wealthy baron with a large estate and  a man with expensive tastes and an extravagant lifestyle who is suddenly cut off from family wealth for the affection of one woman. The younger man must chose between the talented pretty but poor girl he loves and a marriage to an exceedingly wealthy girl he does not love and he chooses the wealthy girl, which leaves the young girl to choose to wed the older baron. In the Long Week the men are two friends, one a successful artist and the once rich man from a family that owns a NYC hotel. The girl is a model and the once rich man is temporarily cut off from his wealth by the divorce of his parents.

It is a very New York sort of story of the rich and richer adrift with pretty young women mixed into the plot.

At 9:00 we went to bed.

Bon Appetit

August 14, 2026 .Breakfast two men on rafts. Lunch - Coda Bakery. Dinner - Oysters, watermelon salad, and corn on the cob

August 14, 2026 .Breakfast two men on rafts. Lunch - Coda Bakery. Dinner - Oysters, watermelon salad, and corn on the cob

I slept nine hours from 11:00 until 8:00 a.m. which is remarkable.

I made two men on rafts by toasting slices of French Country bread in butter on one side, turning them over and toasting the other side and dropping an egg yolk centered in a hole in the middle of the bread and drank a latte macchiato with collagen.

Then it took me several hours to obtain the documents to prove I met my RMD distribution requirement for 2025 and the 1099 for Verizon.

I sent them to Shahin at 11:00 and drove to take Peter to lunch.  When he mentioned Vietnamese, I said, “Let’s go to a new place.”

I drove us to the new Coda bakery restaurant at the corner of Central and San Pedro. It was packed with a line waiting to order when we arrived. When we reached the place taking orders I thought I ordered two Bun Cha Gio with extra egg rolls, but we got one bun cha Gio with double meat and two extra egg rolls which was perfect.  Peter loved the hot egg rolls and ate his two immediately. The portion in the large circular take out container satisfied both of us with some left for Peter to take home.

After I dropped him off at his house I went home and ordered 36 oysters from Whole Foods for 5:45 pick up and checked the market. AMD was up over $30.00 and everything else was flat, so my portfolio increased by .55%. 

At 2:30 I started editing my draft reply in support that I worked on until 4:00 when I took a jar of apricot chutney and a jar of the recently bottled Peach, quince, and fig compote to the Riccos.  Mary Ann showed me their art that was mostly black and white photos.

I then walked next door and returned the book I borrowed from Charlie. 

I returned home and at 5:15 we drove to Whole Foods and picked up the three dozen oysters on the half shell and drove to Debbie’s home in High Desert east of Tramway.

She made a watermelon, feta, and arugula salad and boiled several ears of corn for an excellent dinner. She is traveling to Seattle and will eat Dungeness crab so I made my three sauce combination sauce combining cocktail sauce, mignonette sauce with finely minced red onion cooked for 20 minutes in lemon juice and Mayo like in a crab Louis sauce.

She and Suzette liked it so well, they would not eat any regular cocktail sauce with the oysters.

The oysters were excellent, a dozen each of Wellfleet, Rapahanick, and Atlantic longs.

The salad was light and delicious as was the fresh boiled ears of corn. Debbie also served warm small Nan’s with an artichoke spread that were lovely and fulfilled my desire for carbs.

We took a bottle of French Palantir Sauvignon Blanc and drank it with the oysters.

After dinner Debbie made desserts of Angel food cake garnished with sugared diced strawberries, whipped cream, and a scoop of Hagen Das vanilla ice cream.

This was a perfect meal, light, fresh, full of nutrients and without any excess fat or other deleterious additives.

We left around 9:45 after a pleasant evening of food and conversation.

 One of the highlights was Debbie showing us the Buddha she recent purchased still reclining in her car’s passenger seat.

When we returned home we made the bed with clean sheets and went to bed.

Bon Appetit