December 22, 2023 Brunch - Sausage, potato, onion, and egg Sauté Lunch/Dinner - Vietnam 2000, Duck Leg Soup 

I got up and heated a pain au chocolat a grabbed a cup of tea and worked until 8:30 and then showered and dressed. I had a teleconference from 9:30 to 11:00 and then wrote a letter and then ate the sausage, potato, onion, and egg Sauté Suzette made for breakfast at 8:30. 

At 1:25 we drove to the airport to pick up Billy and Elaine and after dropping documents off at James’ office and driving home to pick up three gift packages on the porch, we drove to Vietnam 2000.  I had recommended was duck leg soup.  We ordered an appetizer of 4 fried egg rolls with a fig sauce dipping sauce and three bowls of duck leg soup.Two were a duck leg in a broth with a pile of either wheat or rice noodles with some diced green onion and a dried shitake mushroom.

It was delicious and the least expensive duck dish I am aware of in Albuquerque, unless you want to share 1/2 of a roasted duck for $24.95 at East Ocean.

After lunch we went to Walgreen’s and Suzette bought 6 boxes of candles for Luminarias.

We then went home at 4:30.

Billy and Suzette went to the basement and pulled two ports, a 1990 Osborne Late bottled port and a 2012 Late bottled port.

When we opened the 1990 it had turned to sherry, but we drank some with Gulden Belgium chocolates

At 7:30 I made two pita pocket sandwiches with tabouli, feta, and labni with black olives and home made pickles.

They were delicious. Elaine and Suzette ate small portions of tabouli and Willy came by and ate a bowl of Posole and we talked until 9:00 when everyone went to sleep to leave me to blog about the day’s food.

Willy talks of moving to Spain or Argentina and now he can  because he just received a large amount of money for his interest in a warehouse Mother gave each child.

We decided to grill steaks and make potato latkes with a vegetable for dinner tomorrow evening.

Celebrating the festivities of the holidays are wonderful, especially with family.

I lost a small amount in the market today. The market is getting more volatile lately but continues to make new highs over time, so is continuing its upward movement.

Bon Appetit