June 3, 2026 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Lunch - Lime Restaurant with Alan. Dinner - Hamburger steak, steamed Broccoli, and Leftover Roasted Potatoes

June 3, 2026 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Lunch - Lime Restaurant with Alan. Dinner - Hamburger steak, steamed Broccoli, and Leftover Roasted Potatoes

I slept 6 1/2 hours straight last night which seems like a new post hospital record.  It may be because we are riding bikes each morning around the neighborhood.

With the extra exercise I am accumulating over 4000 steps each day and beginning to feel better. I love my new Catrize recumbent bike that allows me to pedal from a comfortable reclining position.

Before riding I got up at 7:00 and toasted two thin slices of bagel and spread them with cream cheese and garnished them with paper thin slices of red onion and rather thick slices of Gravad lax. Suzette does not eat the Gravad lax so I find that I like a thicker slice and there is enough for me to eat it every day, if I wish for another few days. I drank a latte macchiato.

Fresh salmon is on sale at Smith’s so I will make more Gravad lax in the next few days.

At 11:00 I drove to Lime to meet Alan for lunch. We both ordered No. 16, Chicken Soup with Wontons and egg noodles. The large bowls of soup also have lots of slices of roast pork, which is a house specialty at Lime.  No. 16 is my current favorite at Lime

After lunch I drove to Trader Joe’s and bought three lb.s of chocolate, two two packs of tiramisu (one lemon and one regular chocolate), a wedge of Delice, two boxes of fig and olive crackers and a case of wine; two Cotes de Nuit Village red, two Palantir Sauvignon Blancs, four Bandol roses, an Italian red, two Ferme’ Julián roses, and an Espiral vino verde.

I drove home and at 2:00 Keith arrived we discussed his case and then sipped wine and ate the fresh Delice on toasted baguette and then fig and olive crackers until 3:30 when I meditated until 4:00.

I then watched checked the portfolio and it had decreased 1.26% in a heavy sell off that pushed the Dow down 621 points and the NASDAQ down 230. 

I watched the news until Suzette came home around 6:00.

I opened the Italian red wine and sipped some around 6:00. It was not very good. It lacked any fruit and was rather tannic.  Suzette did not like it also, which is the real proof it was not a good wine.

Dinner - Suzette formed three large hamburgers from the defrosted ground beef and I de-stemmed the flowerets from one head of broccoli and steamed them while Suzette grilled the hamburgers and re-heated the leftover roasted potatoes.

We enjoyed dinner even though the wine was not good.

This was the type of dinner I ate when growing up in Fort Worth. My dad and I would go to a locker plant each year where sides of beef were hung and select a side of beef that the locker plant would age for approximately 28 days the sides of beef usually weighed 300 lb.s. So it would usually be cut into steaks, roasts and there was always over 100 lb.s of hamburger.

So growing up we ate hamburger steaks with a vegetable and potatoes, like tonight, at least once a week.

The phrase in North Texas in those days was something like, “A day without Beef is a day without real food.”

Both Armour and Swift had large slaughter plants in Fort Worth and there were lots of locker plants that aged and cut beef, so it was plentiful and delicious. A favorite food.

After dinner we watched the Texas women’s softball team beat Texas Tech 7 to 3 in the first of best of three games of the NCAA championship. Texas’ pitcher named Kavan was cool and calm and mowed down Tech’s hitters with multiple strikeouts.

We ate a few squares of milk chocolate and Willy came by and heated up a plate of food we saved for him and we talked to Luke in California.

At 9:00 I reviewed a document and we went to bed at 10:00.

Bon Appetit

June 2, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au chocolate Lunch - Mary and Tito’s with JD. Dinner - Vegetable Stroganoff

June 2, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au chocolate Lunch - Mary and Tito’s with JD. Dinner - Vegetable Stroganoff 

I woke up at 7:00 and watched the Market open and a bit of Morning Joe.  It seems the President has become bored with the War in Iran, which is horrible. Bthe good thing is that the DOJ has stopped the 1.776 billion fund until after a trial because the federal judge enjoined it.

I ate two thin slices of toasted bagel  with cream cheese, red onion , and thick slices of Gravad lax.

Then I read the Texas v. New Mexico settlement for a while. 

At 10:50 JD called and we met at Mary and Tito’s for lunch a few minutes after 11:00.

JD ordered a chili Relleno plate and I ordered a three taco plate with double refried beans. I gave J D a taco and he gave me half of one of his rellenos.  The Relleno was delicious and so were the tacos.

After lunch we drove to my house and I showed him my wine cellar and Art and opened a bottle of Cuarto Osos dry rose of Mencia we bought at Martin Codax Winery in Cambados, Spain. Suzette joined us for a glass of wine.

At 1:45 JD left and I watched the market close and then checked my portfolio. It increased another 1% today. That does not sound like much but since April 7 the portfolio has increased almost 25%, which is huge.

Unfortunately it illustrates the difference in wealth between the top 10% of US citizens who hold 80% of the wealth and the bottom 90%.

At 3:00 I napped until 4:00 when I watched Ari’s The Beat until 5:00.

Then Suzette and I drove to El Super for milk and brown sugar and ended up also buying Mango yogurt, limes, lemons, avocados, green onions, three smoked pork cutlets, a bunch of beets, broccoli, sour cream,flour and corn tortillas, cilantro, carrots, yellow and red onions, a bag of egg noodles, and tomatoes.

When we returned home we rested and then decided to combine the leftover steak, sweet potatoes, and  cream of mushroom soup and add the beet leaves, half of a red bell pepper and an orange Italian sweet pepper and toss with boiled egg noodles to make a vegetable stroganoff. We started by making a beef broth with the steak T-bone, plus carrots, celery, and onion.

Then I minced 1/2 onion and the red and orange pepper and three cloves of garlic from our garden and diced the leftover steak that Suzette then sautéed and added the chopped beet leaves and diced sweet potato.when the noodles were cooked she added them and the mushroom soup, sour cream,  and broth to make a smooth stroganoff sauce.

We opened a bottle of Precision Cabernet Sauvignon we bought at Costco. The tannic tartness of the wine went really well with the slight cream I that went really well with creaminess of the sauce and sweetness of the potatoes and pepper. It was a tasty dish that used a lot of leftovers, which provided space for all the new produce and groceries.

Later we watched an exciting game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals between Las Vegas and Raleigh, North Carolina that Las Vegas won 5 to 4.

Then Suzette went to bed and I stayed up to watch Castle Impossible at 10:00.

Deb Haaland won the Democratic primary for Governor. Perhaps she will be the first Indian female governor in the US.

Bon Appetit

June 1, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Enchiladas at Tiny Grocer Dinner - Baked Lemon Tarragon Chicken Thighs with Blanched Snow Peas and Fava Beans and Butternut squash Mashed Potatoes

 

June 1, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Enchiladas at Tiny Grocer Dinner - Baked Lemon Tarragon Chicken Thighs with Blanched Snow Peas and Fava Beans and Butternut squash Mashed Potatoes

I woke up at 4:00 and went back to sleep at 5:30 and slept until 7:15. Just in time to watch the market open down.

I then helped Suzette pick peas in the garden. This has been a great year for peas. We have been eating them for days with lots yet to come.

I spent the morning at my desk working on family finances, doctor appointments, and reading the recent Settlement in the Texas v. New Mexico U.S. Supreme Court case.

Then at 11:30 after Nvidia started to move up, I called Willy to see if he wanted to go to lunch. He walked over and we drove to Old Town to eat at the Tiny Grocer that Willy highly recommended. We both ordered enchiladas with beef and red chili. Although a bit expensive at $18.00 the enchiladas were gourmet quality with fresh local ingredients and a thick picante, clumpy red chili sauce that tasted liked had been cooked forever and the enchiladas had been baked in an oven to order, which are my favorite way for them to be prepared. 

We could only eat 1/2 of the large portion, so we each took a box home for a later meal.

I drove Willy back to work and then went home and read some more of the settlement until 1:45 when I watched the market close and after market coverage ubtil 2:30 when I checked my portfolio. Today’s market was choppy with lots of stocks dropping precipitously, but several going up a lot, like ARM and Nvidia going up $13.22. Thanks to the three strong gainers, my portfolio increased by 1% to a new high as did all the averages.

At 3:15 I walked around the block, which allowed me to accumulate over 3700 steps today.

Soon after I returned and lay down, Suzette arrived. I rested while she cleaned the kitchen, although I cleaned a skillet and two pots.

We then shucked peas for dinner and a future pea soup and extra for future meals. We also shucked the rest of the faca beans.

We decided to bake the chicken thighs I bought several days ago and season them with slices of lemon and sprigs of tarragon from our garden slid under their skin. We decided to serve them with a mixture of mashed potato and butternut squash and blanched fava beans with some of the snow peas.

Willy came over to join us for dinner around 7:00 as everything was finishing cooking.

I opened a bottle of 2022 La Granja Viura and Verdejo blend that is one of my favorites with baked chicken and poured glasses for each of us.  Suzette plated our plates with peas, mashed butternut squash potatoes and a chicken thighs I bought and we took them to the table under the gazebo in the garden.

At 7:15 it was starting to cool, so dinner was pleasant. We went back in at 8:00 and began watching Texas Tech women’s baseball team play Alabama in the semi-finals of the Women’s College World Series. Texas Tech won and will play Texas for the championship on Wednesday.

During the game we sipped cognacs and I ate two squares of Belgium milk chocolate.

Another excellent day of interesting food.

Bon Appetit.

When the game ended at 9:30 we went to bed

May 31, 2026 Breakfast - Egg Sandwich. Lunch - Pea Soup. Dinner - Scallops Provençal with Yu Choy, and German Pot Pie Egg Noodles

May 31, 2026 Breakfast - Egg Sandwich.  Lunch - Pea Soup. Dinner - Scallops Provençal with Yu Choy, and German Pot Pie Egg Noodles 

I woke up at 6:30 and could not go back to sleep, so watched the news.

Around 9:00, after Suzette did her water aerobics, we made breakfast.

I wanted to use the light French whole wheat bread we bought at thecFarjers’ Market yesterday, so we decided to simply make an egg sandwich.

I toasted three slices of bread and spread Mayo on them.

Suzette went to the garden and picked some lettuce and I sliced a Roma tomato and slices of Iberico cheese.

Then Suzette fried two eggs into pancakes and we lay egg, tomato,and lettuce on each slice of toast.

I added thin slices of red onion to my two open faced sandwiches.

After breakfast at around 10:00 we rode our bikes around a circuit within the neighborhood.

When we returned we pitted the three baskets of apricots Suzette has picked from our tree (about six lb.s).

I then chopped two onions into thin slices and minced the two pieces of ginger roots we have,  Here is the recipe Suzette used to make about 8 lb. of apricot chutney.  

Suzette then made a lovely cream of pea soup with dill weed for lunch with peas from our garden I minced a cup of shallots for the soup. We ate it with glasses of Kirkland Pinot Grigio and slices of buttered Baguette. This was arguably the best dish of the day.

After another hour of cooking the chutney, Suzette filled 17 jars with chutney she came to the bedroom and lay down to rest and I went to the TV room to watch Texas’ women’s softball team beat Nebraska.

We had trouble deciding what to cook for dinner. We decided to not eat the leftover Chinese stir fry with BBQ pork because it may have upset Suzette’s stomach.

Instead we thawed 12 scallops and Suzette made Julia Child’s recipe for Scallops Provençal and boiled a handful of German pot pie egg noodles.

I chopped the green leaves off the remaining five or six clusters of Yu Choy and went to the garden and picked a head of garlic and some sprigs of parsley and lemon thyme.

I then minced 1/6 of an onion, the parsley and thyme and two cloves of garlic and cut the Yu Choy leaves into bite -sized pieces and cut each scallop hirizontally.

Suzette then tossed the scallops in flour and anit of salt and sautéed them and then added the other ingredients and sautéed them and finally added some white wine to make a light sauce.

Then she drained the noodles and tossed some of them with the scallops.

We ate outside by the pond  and drank the last of the Pinot Grigio with ice cubes to chill it.

After dinner we watched an exciting women’s softball game between Texas Tech and UCLA that went two extra innings before Texas Tech won 8 to 7.

At 9:00 we went to bed.

I blogged and then read some of Being Ram Das, the autobiography Luke gave me for Christmas.

Bon Appetit