July 12, 2024 Breakfast - Toasted Dutch Spice cake with butter and cherry preserves. Lunch - Costco hot dog. Dinner - at Debbie’s

July 12, 2024 Breakfast - Toasted Dutch Spice cake with butter and cherry preserves. Lunch - Costco hot dog. Dinner - at Debbie’s

I ate a little later, around 9:30. I toasted three slices of Dutch Spice cake and buttered the slices and spread them with cherry preserves.

It was a good but not great day in the market, a gain of .0925%. I regained about 1/3 of what I loss yesterday and more importantly it appears the market has not lost its upward momentum.

At 3:00 I drove to Costco, where I ate a hot dog and then shopped. I bought a bottle of Acrobat Pinot Gris, two packages of pan au chocolate, butter, dark roast coffee, and spaghetti.

I returned home around 4:30. At 5:15 we drove to Whole Foods at Academy and Wyoming and picked up a clam shell of 18 oz. of blueberries and 36 oysters, Blue Point, Rochambeau, and Old Salt.

When we arrived at Debbie’s house we discover that Jeff had died on Monday and that Jason was going to join us for dinner.

Suzette made a cocktail sauce combining catsup, lemon juice, and Buffalo Wild Wings sauce that we dipped oysters into and Debbie fetched saltine crackers to use for canapés with the oysters.

              Jason arrived soon after we did and we all ate oysters as we talked and watched Debbie cook. Debbie was making a very interesting calzone by stuffing a sheet of Pillsbury dough pulled and rolled and then wrapped around layers of pepperoni slices, mozzarella cheese, fresh arugula, and a light drizzle of olive oil, slices of prosciutto. She sealed the ingredients into a closed pocket and then baked it in a hot oven for ten to fifteen minutes until the dough browned and cheese melted.

Debbie also made a salad and cooked orzo.  Suzette and I drank the Ruiz Albariño we had bought last week at Kokoman.  It had none of the usual acidity of most un aged albarinos, but had lost most of its fruitiness also, so balance, not as great as I had hoped.

Debbie drank scotch and Jason drank water.

We had a lovely dinner. The calzone stole the show and demonstrated to me that she has developed her cooking skills, taking on challenging recipes to prep.

After dinner Debbie made Jason and me bowls of vanilla ice cream with a drizzle of chocolate syrup.

The sunset was amazing as they often are from Debbie’s house, which is the highest Albuquerque home on the Sandias.

At 8:30 we said goodnight and drove home and went to bed.

Bon Appetit