July 29, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - East Ocean Family meal. Dinner - Leftover General Tsao’s Chicken and Mongolian beef and rice

July 29, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - East Ocean Family meal. Dinner - Leftover General Tsao’s Chicken and Mongolian beef and rice 

Today the dam broke in the market. The Dow dropped more than 1100 points in its greatest daily loss in the last year.

I walked around the block around 6:30 and then ate a bowl of granola with yogurt, milk, and blueberries as I worked on a real estate transaction in the morning and taxes.

Henry called and we decided to go to lunch. He arrived in a lovely large Chevy sleeper van with Esther, her sister, and her mother and Henry drove us to East Ocean where we all agreed to share the $16.99 family meal. It included an appetizer plate with a cream cheese fried wonton, an egg roll, and a fried shrimp. Then we were each served cups of either wonton or egg drop soup.

Then five entrees were served with a container of steamed rice and a container of fried rice. Then we were entrees were Mongolian Beef, General Tsao’s chicken, Combination Lo Mein, Cashew Chicken, and Shrimp and Mixed Vegetables. My favorite was shrimp with Mixed Vegetables and the Lo Mein.

We could not eat even half, so Henry and Esther loaded the leftovers into six styrofoam boxes that were then bagged in plastic carrying bags.

They drove me home around 2:00 and gave me all the boxes.

When I arrived I checked the market and found that my portfolio also had its worst day in a year, losing a staggering 2.55%. But I was happy tat I sold 100 shares of Nvidia’s at yesterday’s high.

I worked until 4:00 when I lay down and watched the news until 6:00.

Willy came by at 5:00 and he and Suzette drove to pick up tiles for a walkway at the Center. At 6:00 we drove to Costco and bought eggs, baguettes, portobello mushrooms, cream, flour tortillas, pistachios, and lamb chops. 

When we returned home we heated plates with General Tsao’s Chicken, Mongolian Beef, and rice.  Suzette drank a beer and I drank a cup of green tea. And we still have enough Chinese leftovers for three or four meals.

After dinner we watched a Netflix movie titled “The Last Word” with Shirley MacLaine, Amanda Seyfried, and Anne Hecht that was not as cherry as last night’s movie because it was about death, but well acted and entertaining.

We went to bed at 10:00.

Bon Appetit

July 28, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate and bagel with Cheese Lunch - Tabouli Salad Dinner - Enchiladas with Pinto beans

July 28, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate and bagel with Cheese Lunch - Tabouli Salad  Dinner - Enchiladas with Pinto beans

At 2:30 this morning I spoke to Mr. Dixit at an Indian bank that has agreed to help me dematerialized my Indian bank shares. It now appears that the path to dematerialized shares is open, which is great news.

In the morning I started to make Gravad lax but the Gravad lax was getting too old and scummy to eat so after I toasted two slices of bagel and spread them with cream cheese and slices of red onion and sliced the salmon, I decided to abort and threw away the old lax and, instead, ate a pain au chocolate with a cup of chai and then put slices of Iberico cheese on the bagel and ate the bagel with cheese with another cup of chai.

I then worked on my 2025 taxes until noon when I used the remaining two cups of tabouli to make a tabouli salad with fresh lettuce from the garden Suzette picked yesterday, plus 1/2 of a tomato. On my salad I added Kalamata olives and a few thin slices of red onion. I drizzled both salads with fresh lemon juice and olive oil and we each toasted a slice of French Country bread for a lovely low calorie lunch.

After another down day in the market during which I sold 100 shares of Nvidia while it was up a bit at $197.57.

Then in the afternoon I got a new case from an old client and also called the court for one of my cases and asked if the case would be dismissed after no activity for almost 2 years.

After a flurry of calls and emails I stopped work a few minutes after 4:00 to watch the news.

At 5:00 we heated the pinto beans Suzette cooked yesterday and reheated squares of the chicken and mushroom enchiladas we made on Sunday.

Suzette fetched beers and we ate a lovely dinner.

After dinner we made chocolate chip cookies with about a cup of minced chocolate mint Suzette picked in the garden.  This is the first time we have added minced chocolate mint to chocolate chip cookies. We both thought it created a subtle mint flavor without that awful candy mint flavor.

We finished baking the cookies at 7:00 just in time to watch Finding Your Roots. After that we watched a Netflix movie titled “People You Meet on Vacation” and went to bed at 10:00.

Suzette is back on her diet and hit her goal for the day, without going over.

Bon Appetit

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