October 2, 2024 Lunch - Fabada Dinner - Leftover Grilled Lamb Chops and Linguine with Broccoli and Kale in a Tallegio Cream Sauce

October 2, 2024 Lunch - Fabada Dinner - Leftover Grilled Lamb Chops and Linguine with Broccoli and Kale in a Tallegio Cream Sauce

Another busy day of work and sinking back into our normal diet by consuming wonderful leftovers.

I ate granola with milk, yogurt, and green grape halves for breakfast. The cool green grapes were a wonderful addition to the bowl.

I then had a conference with the staff of a client to discuss a proposed contract and then discussed the rental of Birdland with Jay.

At 1:30 I decided to eat a bowl of the Fabada Suzette made two days ago. Fabada is a bean stew made with the large Asturian white bean, morcilla, and chorizo, and ham or pork belly. Suzette had made the stew with morcilla and chorizo, and had roasted pork belly separately, so I added a square of pork belly to a bowl of Fabada and then heated it all in the microwave an toasted two slices of baguette and opened a chilled bottle of Modelo Negra. I felt like I was back in Spain eating lunch.

I then saw on CNBC that Jensen Huang was going to be interviewed at 2:15 so I watched that interview with Huang and the President of Accenture to discuss their strategic alliance to create applications of AI using Nvidia chips. It was very enlightening to hear how they saw the future applications of AI and to hear that demand for Nvidia’s Blackwell chip were incredible, which I anticipate will increase Nvidia’s stock price dramatically. Now I need to figure out how to buy some Accenture stock.

I then drove to Shahin’s office to complete my 2023 taxes. I read the new New Yorker while he took care of other businesses between sessions with me of several minutes wherein we resolved one issue and started an employee working to aggregate data from my bank statements and credit card statements to capture some business expenses.

I finally left around 5:30 and stopped on the way home at Lowe’s to buy milk, tonic water, and oatmeal cookies.

When I arrived at home Luke and Suzette were fixing dinner. They had decided to use some of the leftover linguine to replicate the delicious linguine with broccoli kale, and cherry tomatoes in a Tallegio cream sauce with some of the leftover grilled lamb chops. When we cook we often cook for 8 and create large amounts of leftovers that we eat or use in other dishes later, such as the dozen lamb chops Suzette grilled last night or the lb. of linguine she boiled last night. So we had enough of each to replicate last night’s meal.

It was wonderful to have Luke for dinner and to hear about his travels and life these days.

Luke glazed the lamb chops with Suzette’s homemade mint jelly before microwaving them. Suzette and Luke made another batch of the Tallegio cream/mornay sauce and affection fresh broccoli, kale, and cherry tomatoes to the linguine to replicate the pasta dish.

I poured out the remaining 1/2 bottle of Chianti Classico Riserva and we enjoyed a repeat of last night’s meal.

After dinner we talked but at 8:00 I watched Lawrence O’Donnell’s news program that did an analysis of Jack Smith’s filing to present his evidence of which elements of the January 6th allegations are not subject to the Supreme Court’s opinion that Trump is immune from prosecution for his official actions as President that the Judge in the January 6th case released to the public today. In other words, the actions he took as a candidate, such as plotting to overturn the election by false electoral ballots and inciting violence against the Capitol to stop the certification on January 6, and most particularly, trying to coerce Pence into using his position as President pro Temp of the Senate to reject the certified ballots of the Electoral college votes from at least a few states. Smith characterized Trump’s actions to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as campaign related and not within the scope of the normal actions of the Executive and thus not protected by the presidential immunity granted by the Supreme Court recently. I can hardly wait to see what the Supreme Court does when confronted with the facts of Trump’s actions to overturn the election in this brief, because they avoided the facts in their recent immunity opinion.

At 9:45 after a cups of tea, I took Luke to the airport for his Jet Blue flight back to New York and returned home and went to bed.

Bon Appetit