February 28, 2026 Breakfast - Panettone Brunch - Lax on Bagel Dinner - Vietnam 2000

 February 28, 2026 Breakfast - Panettone  Brunch - Lax on Bagel Dinner - Vietnam 2000 

Today the U.S. and Israel bombed Iran, starting a new war in the Middle East and possibly WWIII.

I watched soccer and ate a toasted slice of Panettone spread with berry preserves at 7:30 with a cup of tea.

Suzette and I then worked in the yard removing Columbines, lifting the screen off the pond, and planting Astride and Lilly of the Valleys around our new Buddha Statue.

At 11:30 we finished and i made brunch. I toasted three slices of bagel, spread goat milk cheese on them and garnished mine with slices of red onion and Gravad Lax and capers. I put avocado on the bagel for Suzette.

Will and Willy were here to move couches to Willy’s new rental house. They had recently eaten,, so I gave Will some Gravad lax to take home 

I watched the rest of the Man City v. Leeds match, which Man City won, took a shower, and rested until 4:00 when we dressed and drove to Vietnam 2000 for dinner with the Chews and Blaugrunds. It was fun to introduce them to one of my favorite restaurants. 

I told everyone my favorite dishes, No. 30, No.76, and No. 87. Elaine ordered her favorite: spring rolls with that fabulous peanut sauce. Nancy and Suzette and I ordered No. 30, a vermicelli bowl with egg rolls and grilled marinated pork. Wayne ordered No. 76, a bowl of soup with egg noodles and a duck leg. And, Cliff ordered No. 87, a platter of boiled flour sheets on a bed of sautéed mung bean sprouts band cucumber sticks garnished with marinated fried pork and fried egg rolls. Everyone seemed to enjoy their dish. I paid for dinner for everyone, a very inexpensive $60.00.

                                                     No. 30

We then guided Cliff and Nancy to the parking lot north of Johnson Gym and we walked to Popejoy for the NMPhilhatmonic Concert.

The concert was conducted by a young conductor currently working and conducting at Arizona State University.

 

I noticed that he took his undergraduate degree at TCU in violin and graduate degree at University of Colorado.

The Phil’s current conductor is leaving, so the hunt is on for a new musical director. I loved the program. The first half was contemporary American composers with a saxophone soloist, also from ASU and the second half was Moussurky’s Paintings in an Exhibition.

The less than full audience loved both parts of the program judging from their rousing applause.

When the concert ended we drove home and watched the news of the War in the Middle East instead of Have I got News for you. Suzette went to bed at 9:00 and I went to bed at 10:00.

It was fun introducing everyone to Vietnam 2000.

Bon Appetit

csA February 27, 2026 Breakfast - Granola Lunch - Lime Vietnamese Restaurant Dinner - Roasted Chicken, Mashed Potatoes with Mushroom gravy, and steamed Asparagus

 February 27, 2026 Breakfast - Granola  Lunch - Lime Vietnamese Restaurant  Dinner - Roasted Chicken, Mashed Potatoes with Mushroom gravy, and steamed Asparagus

I slept until 6:30, then read until 7:00 and watched Squawk on the Street until 8:00.

I dressed and ate my usual breakfast of granola, milk, mango yogurt, and blueberries.

At 10:00 I walked around the block along San Carlos to Laguna and back along Los Alamos for over one mile of steps. At 5:30 i walked around the shorter block to 16th and to Los Alamos. The accumulated steps for the day were 4800.

Aaron invited me to go to lunch with him and Monica. We met at Lime at noon.  Aaron ordered Chicken soup with noodles, I ordered No. 16, Chicken Soup with wontons and egg noodles. The soup also contained slices of roasted pork, which is a house specialty.

Monica ordered her favorite dish, fried shrimp in their shells.

I also ordered an order of 3 fried egg rolls that Monica and I shared.

After lunch I drove home and rested for 1/2 hour and then meditated from 3:30 to 4:15. It was another disastrous day in the market. I will wait until tomorrow to face the worse meltdown in over a month.

Fortunately gold went up over $100 to $5280.

At 5:00 I buttered two Swedish round hard bread slices and lay slices of Jarlsberg cheese and red onion on them and melted them for a snack.

Then I walked and when I returned we prepared dinner. I removed the thighs from the roasted chicken Suzette brought from the Bistro . She then made a gravy with flour, butter, and chicken stock to which I added mushroom slices and minced garlic.

Suzette also steamed about 10 stalks of asparagus.

We poured out the remaining Faustino Albariño into two glasses.

Soon we were eating a delicious dinner.

We watched a documentary about a Korean Buddhist Nun who is a phenomenal vegetarian cook and the Washington Week at 8:00 and most of Firing Line and went to bed by 9:30. I drank a cup of chai with the last two cookies.

The weather is warming and we are starting to turn on the fan at night.

Bon Appetit

February 26, 2026 Breakfast - Lax on Bagel. Lunch - La Salita Dinner - California Corona White Bean and Chard and macaroni Stew with Grilled Lamb chops and Tzatziki

February 26, 2026 Breakfast - Lax on Bagel. Lunch - La Salita  Dinner - California Corona White Bean and Chard and macaroni Stew with Grilled Lamb chops and Tzatziki

I was up from 3:30 to 4:45 and then slept until 7:15.

The market did not respond well to Nvidia’s earnings and pummeled it and most other tech stocks.

I had the worst day in a long time.

Since we were not eating until 12:45 I ate a good breakfast of a whole toasted bagel spread with cream cheese and garnished with Gravad lax, red onion slices, and capers with Earl Grey tea.

When I finished I talked to Aaron about Earn for an hour and then read documents to prepare for a board meeting tomorrow.

Then at 11:45 I drove to pick up Charlie and Peter and drive to uLa Salta on Juan Tabo near Indian School Rd. We each ordered our

lunch and paid for it. I ordered Enchilada Delight which is four rolled enchiladas filled with ground beef and served with two sides. I my case the sides were refried beans. I ate 1/2 of my dish and took two enchiladas and beans home for lunch tomorrow.

Today all members of the club plus Mike and Tom Genomi joined us for lunch and the Book Club discussion that followed at Bonnie’s house. The book was Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy, which triggered lots of discussion.

Bonnie made lovely cherry pies with sour cherries she sweetened and to which she added cinnamon and vanilla that we ate after the meeting.

I then drove Charlie to Galles Chevrolet and Peter home and the stopped at Lowe’s grocery store then to buy a cucumber.

I arrived home at 4:30 and watched news until 5:30 when we cooked dinner.

Dinner - Suzette made a vegetable stew that was a recipe in her Gordo Bean Club shipment She added a bunch of red chard cubed, carrots, an onion, and garlic to the cooked large white Corona beans she cooked yesterday.

Then she grilled the lamb chops I bought at Costco several days ago.

While Suzette cooked I prepped the tzatziki, 2/3 cucumber, 1/2 cup of labni, 1 cup of LaLa plain yogurt, two cloves of garlic pressed, 1/8 of a red onion minced, juice of 1/2 lemon, 1/2 tsp. of salt.

Willy arrived and walked around the block as we finished cooking. We actually did not complete dinner until 7:15. I opened a bottle of 2022 La Revuer from Côtes du Rhône that I bought at Costco for under $10.00.

Here are the winery notes for this wine.

Grape Composition 

80% Grenache, 20% Syrah

Vinification 

Concrete tanks

Destemmed or not 

100% destemmed

Fermentation 

15 to 20 days fermentation and maceration

Yeast 

Natural

Aging 

12 months in concrete tanks

Soil Composition 

Light clay and sandy soil, vines are situated on terraces

Exposition 

North facing

Vine Age 

40 to 45 years old

Density 

4000 vines per HA

Harvest type 

Hand Picked

Malolactic – yes/no

Yes

Soon we were eating the vegetable and bean stew with bites of lamb drenched in tzatziki.

Willy left after dinner and we watched Midsomer Murders from 8:00 to 9:30 and then went to bed.

Bon Appetit 

 

February 25, 2026

February 25, 2026 Breakfast - Taco Eggs on corn tortillas. Lunch - Vinaigrette. Dinner - Leftover Chirashi and Chinese Longevity Noodles with beef

I slept badly and woke up at 3:30 and watched the business news, which was mostly about Nvidia’s quarterly report to be announced after the close. The market was up again today, but not as much as yesterday.

I heated about a cup of the leftover taco meat in butter and and added two eggs to make scrambled taco eggs that I lay on three toasted corn tortillas and ate with a latte macchiato for breakfast.

I slept from 8:30 to 10:00.

I reviewed a document and wrote a letter and then at 11:30 I walked to Vinaigrette to meet Paul for lunch.  He and I car pooled to Sunday school together 70 years ago in Fort Worth.

We are also in similar businesses. Paul owns Geltmore Development and develops real estate and I am a real estate lawyer, we had lots to talk about.

He was particularly interested in what Willy does.  

We both ordered Cajun Gumbo, a shrimp, andouille sausage, chicken, okra, and rice stew.

After lunch I walked back and was surprised that the walk was only 3600 steps, resulting in a day’s total of 3900 steps.

From 3:00 until 4:00 In listened to the Nvidia quarterly report. It was not as exciting as the talks Jensen gives at the electronics conventions, but he was as visionary as always.

He will be on CNBC tomorrow and might be more interesting.

I tried to see what kind of bump the Nvidia stock got from its now usual 70% increase in revenue. It seemed to be up $10.00 but that did not seem to hold, which seemed to be a delay in the tape. In any event, my portfolio was up about .6%. The real tell will be tomorrow when the stock starts trading on it current earnings.

At 4:00 I watched Ari and Suzette came home and we watched as Democrats excoriate the excesses of the Republicans. It seems the Justice Department withheld some files implicating Trump in the Epstein file, which would violate the recent disclosure law.

Dinner - We decided to eat the leftover Chirashi and Chinese Noodles for dinner.

At 5:30 I divided the 1/2 chirashi and Suzette heated the Chinese noodles.

I made a cup of green tea and Suzette drank her cocktail and we ate a pleasant dinner.

After dinner we watched two episodes of Salt, Fat, Acid, and Heat with Samin Nosrat on Netflix, that examines cooking by analyzing each of the four elements.

I dozed and we went to bed at 9:30.

Bon Appetit