September 14, 2025 Brunch - Bacon, Eggs and Cottage Fries with toast and jam. Dinner - Leftover Pasta with Shrimp, chicken, sweet pepper threads, and mushrooms plus added snow peas

 September 14, 2025 Brunch - Bacon, Eggs and Cottage Fries with toast and jam. Dinner - Leftover Pasta with Shrimp, chicken, sweet pepper threads, and mushrooms plus added snow peas

We got up and worked this morning. I at my desk on discovery and Suzette in the yard and on our collection of bottles that we are moving from the basement to the garage so we can remodel the basement into a wine cellar, except we took a break around 10:30 to talk to Willy and then I watched the Man City v. Man Union match. Man City is for real this year. The match between Man City and Arsenal next weekend may decide the championship of the PL this year. Man City won 3 to 0.

Suzette then made a hearty brunch of Bacon, Eggs and Cottage Fries with toast and jam. We drank Clamato with a squeeze of lime juice.

I helped carry in a box of quince for processing. I felt like her trees at the Center produced about 60 lb. this year.

Suzette then went on a shopping trip to four stores; Big 5 Sporting Goods to buy waders so workmen can clear excess cattails from the pond, Goodwill where she bought plates, Home Depot, and Savers.

I watched the end of the 4th quarter and overtime of the NFL game between the Cowboys and the Giants that the Cowboys won in overtime.  Then I watch the World Track and Field Championships from Tokyo and some of the Eagles v. Kansas City Chiefs.  It was the match up in last year’s Super Bowl with the same result, the Eagles won.

I then finished my discovery by 5:30 when we prepared dinner.

Dinner was simply, de-stemming the snow peas I bought at El Super, cutting then halves and sautéing them with the leftover fabulous farfalle pasta with chicken, shrimp,fresh wood ear, fresh enoki and chanterelle mushrooms in a cream sauce with grated Pecorino Romano cheese. Suzette opened a bottle of Acrobat Pinot Gris. It reminded me of Albariño when I was blind tasting the wine.  It was a fabulous dinner.

After dinner watched an episode of Miss Fisher while I finished my discovery response.

Then at 7:00 I watched Professor T and after which I joined Suzette in bed to watch The Marvel Murder Club, which I have been enjoying. 

Suzette went to sleep at 9:00 and stayed up to blog.

Two wonderful meals made this a great food day.

I noticed that I am slowing done and chewing the food more before swallowing it, now that we are eating smaller portions and fewer meals.

Bon Appetit 

Suzette then went on a shopping trip to four stores; Big 5 Sporting Goods to buy waders so workmen can clear excess cattails from the pond, Goodwill where she bought plates, Home Depot, and Savers.

September 13, 2025 Breakfast - Lax and Bagels Lunch - Monroe’s Dinner - Brats with Red Cabbage and Chicken Calabacitas

September 13, 2025 Breakfast - Lax and Bagels Lunch - Monroe’s   Dinner - Brats with Red Cabbage and Chicken Calabacitas 

I woke up at 6:30 and watched Fulham v. Arsenal.

Then at 7:00 I toasted slices of bagel. Then smeared them with cream cheese and garnished with Gravad Lax, red onion, and capers and ate them with a cup of tea.

Then I watched the last climb in the Vuelta, which Vinnegaard won by about 35 seconds over the next rider to win the Vuelta.

Carlos arrived at 8:00 and worked with Suzette until 12:30 when we drove to Monroe’s for lunch. I ordered a beef enchilada  dinner with Calabacitas and refried beans. Suzette ordered a single carne adovado enchilada with sour cream. We love the high atrium in the center of the restaurant. After lunch I worked at my desk until 4:45.

When we returned home we thawed two brats.

Then at 6:00 Suzette made dinner from leftover red cabbage and the chicken Calabacitas with the sautéed brats.

Suzette and I peeled the horseradish from our garden that was drying out in the basement and Suzette pureed it in an electric herb blender and mixed it with Mayo, and mustard for a wonderful sauce for the brats

I opened a bottle of Mencia and we enjoyed a meal of mainly leftovers with the sauteed brats.

We watched Bill Maher and Have I got news for you and then I watched some football and blogged and went to bed at 10:30.

Bon Appetit

September 12, 2025 Breakfast -Avocado Toast. Lunch - Lamb Kebab Pita Sandwich. Dinner - Sautéed Chicken and shrimp with three mushrooms and Sweet Italian Peppers with a dash of onion and garlic served on a pile of Farfalle (bow tie) pasta in a Mornay sauce.

September 12, 2025 Breakfast -Avocado Toast. Lunch - Lamb Kebab Pita Sandwich. Dinner - Sautéed Chicken and shrimp with three mushrooms and Sweet Italian Peppers with a dash of onion and garlic served on a pile of Farfalle (bow tie) pasta in a Mornay sauce.

I slept from 9:00 to 6:20, over nine hours and felt great. I dressed and watched the market open and then toasted a slice of whole wheat Sourdough bread and spread cream cheese and garnished with slices of avocado and red onion and Suzette took 1/4/ of it for her breakfast before she went to her exercise session.

I worked at my desk most of the morning with family business, except at 10:00 I took a break to walk 3/4 mile in the neighborhood.

Then at 1:30 I took a lunch break and went the garden and picked a 2 lb. Cucumber and peeled it, seeded it, and sliced and diced it into small cubes and added it to the tzatziki plus some more yogurt and lemon juice.

Then I heated 1/2 pita and stuffed it with a lamb kebab cut in halves, lettuce, feta cheese, and tzatziki and ate it with two dill pickles and a small pile of tzatziki.

After lunch at 2:30 I checked my portfolio and was amazed that Apple went up $4.04 per share and Warner Brothers Discovery that was spun off from  AT&T went up another $2.70 after going over $3.00 yesterday, apparently Paramount is going to make a bid to buy it. It was a good day with a .07% gain that came out of nowhere.

I worked on the LRGA all afternoon until 4:30.

Then I rested and watched the news until 5:30 when we prepared 

Dinner.  Suzette boiled a pot of water with farfalle pasta and made the cream sauce with a roux   I diced a medium onion, three cloves of garlic, a chicken breast while Suzette peeled about 18 boiled shrimp. I also diced the last ten chanterelle mushrooms, cut the rough ends off a bunch of enoki mushrooms, while Suzette sliced a few baby portobellos.  Suzette then made a Mornay sauce by stirring butter and flour and added a cup of milk and a dash of white wine and a cup of soft Amish cheddar cheese and then stirred ina cup of Amish cheddar we bought at an Amish farm on the west side of Lake Seneca and tossed sauce into the warm pasta. The beauty of this dish was that it reduced the amount of cheese sauce by putting it only on the pasta that turned out to have in one dish two sauces for a very interesting effect.

Suzette fetched a chilled bottle of Kirkland Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough New Zealand to drink with dinner and I poured several ounces into the chicken, shrimp, and mushroom skillet and filled two glasses.

Suzette plated 1 cup of creamed pasta tossed with Parmesan with 1 1/4 cup of meat in its wine sauce.

We enjoyed dinner and watched Univ. of Houston beat Colorado during which we first drank glasses of homemade limoncello. Then later I ate three slices of fruit cake with a cup of tea and went to bed at 9:00.

Bon Appetit

September 11, 2025 Lunch and Dinner - Calabacitas with a pork tamale.

 September 11, 2025 Lunch and Dinner - Calabacitas with a pork tamale.

 I ate a chocolate croissant for breakfast with several cups of zearlnGreybtea.

Then at noon I ate a bowl of Calabacitas with a tamale.

At 5:00 we went to the opening celebration for the Aldo Leopoldo house one block away at the corner of Los Alamos and 14th.

There were lots of appetizers, such as salami and crackers, tortellini with a slice of sun dried tomato, grapes dusted with sugar, shrimp, and brownies. 

I ate two or three of everything and later found out that I had nibbled over 1000 calories And was still hungry when we returned home.

Suzette would not eat anything else but I was hungry so I ate another bowl of Calabacitas with another tamale for dinner.

We then watched Nonnas on Netflix and went to bed at 9:30.

Bon Appetit

September 10, 2025 Breakfast - Granola, milk, mango yogurt, and grapes. Lunch - Shrimp Salad. Dinner - Lamb kebabs Sandwiches with feta, tzatziki, and lettuce

September 10, 2025 Breakfast - Granola, milk, mango yogurt, and grapes. Lunch - Shrimp Salad. Dinner - Lamb kebabs Sandwiches with feta, tzatziki, and lettuce

I slept until 7:30 which was after the garbage pickup so no pick up

I ate a bowl of granola with milk, mango yogurt, and grapes.

Then I watched the market for a while. The incredible $86.00 increase in Oracle took the high tech chip makers up with it and even though the Dow was down 220 and the NASDAQ was flat, Nvidia closed up $6.57 which made my portfolio a winner.

I worked until 1:00, then drove to Bosque Bakery and bought a loaf of Whole Wheat Sourdough bread on my way to the emissions testing center on South Broadway.

When I returned home I made a salad with lettuce, cucumber, tomato, red onion slices, dill pickles, avocado, and boiled shrimp. I made Louis sauce with horseradish, lemon juice, catsup, mayonnaise, and a dash of pickle relish.

As I began to eat the massive salad Suzette arrived and took some of it, but I must have eaten too much, because I had to go to the bathroom shortly after finishing lunch.

I then rested and at 5:00 I drank a glass of yogurt drink and then made tzatziki for dinner with fresh dill and mint I picked in the garden. I also  registered my mini and checked the market result and picked two large shishito peppers in the garden That we sautéed with the lamb kebabs Suzette made from ground lamb, minced parsley and garlic, z’Atar, Aleppo chili, and an egg.

We sliced pita in half and heated them and filled them with kebabs, tzatziki, lettuce, and creamy feta, 

We drank the rest of the Chateau de Amour Cotes de Bourg with dinner .

After dinner we brought in the rest of the wooden armoire fittings and put in the shelves.

Then I lay down and blogged.

Bon Appetit

September 9, 2025 Breakfast - Sausage, Eggs, and Red Onion with Toast Lunch - Cucumber Soup. Dinner - Leftover Coda Bakery Noodles and Spring roll

September 9, 2025 Breakfast - Sausage, Eggs, and Red Onion with Toast  Lunch - Cucumber Soup. Dinner - Leftover Coda Bakery Noodles and Spring roll 

I awakened at 8:30 after a bad night’s sleep.  I decided to have a hardy breakfast to get an energy boost, so I sautéed two patties of Jimmie Dean Sausage, a slice of red onion and then fried two eggs in the skillet.

I toasted the three small slices of baguette and spread them with butter and Bonne Marie French Four Berry Preserves and drank a cup of Earl Grey tea.

By mid-morning the NASDAQ turned positive and I started feeling better.

There was lots of activity in the house that distracted me until about noon as Suzette had 3 helpers move a large armoire through the front door and and my office into the back bedroom and then carried most of her sewing fabrics from the basement to the back room and then moved the wine racks we bought that were in the garage to the basement.

We are trying to remodel the basement into a wine cellar from a junk room and sewing room.

They finished around 1:20 and Suzette had an appointment at 2:00, so I filled bowls with cucumber soup and garnished each bowl with avocado chunks and the remaining croutons.

After the market closed I checked and was up fractionally, Apple was down $3.53 but Nvidia was up $2.45.

I then began to accumulate evidence and documents to complete discovery for the LRGA until 4:30.

I watched some news and then at 5:30 I boiled shrimp and we ate the rest of the Coda Noodle Bowl and added shrimp. I also ate the remaining half of the pork spring roll with a shrimp.

We shared the last glass of 2021 Guy Saget Vouvray we opened at the Sunday night tailgate dinner at the opera. The slight sweetness of the Vouvray helped overcome the spiciness of the fish sauce.

After dinner we got ready for bed.  Suzette rested and read and I watched two videos about ramen shops in Japan and the extended coverage of Stage 16 of the Tour of Spain on You Tube until after 9:00, although we each ate a few bites of peach cobbler.

Today we reserved a cabin at the Apple Farm in Philo for the Pinot Festival in June next year and a hotel in Tokyo for the last five nights in Japan and in Honolulu on the way to Japan. 

Suzette was incredibly busy today and I made good progress identifying discovery to support our theories in the LRGA.

We enjoyed lovely leftovers for Lunch and Dinner without having to cook.

I like a hardy breakfast to energize my body.

Bon Appetit Breakfast - Sausage, Eggs, and Red Onion with Toast  Lunch - Cucumber Soup. Dinner - Leftover Coda Bakery Noodles and Spring roll 

I awakened at 8:30 after a bad night’s sleep.  I decided to have a hardy breakfast to get an energy boost, so I sautéed two patties of Jimmie Dean Sausage, a slice of red onion and then fried two eggs in the skillet.

I toasted the three small slices of baguette and spread them with butter and Bonne Marie French Four Berry Preserves and drank a cup of Earl Grey tea.

By mid-morning the NASDAQ turned positive and I started feeling better.

There was lots of activity in the house that distracted me until about noon as Suzette had 3 helpers move a large armoire through the front door and and my office into the back bedroom and then carried most of her sewing fabrics from the basement to the back room and then moved the wine racks we bought that were in the garage to the basement.

We are trying to remodel the basement into a wine cellar from a junk room and sewing room.

They finished around 1:20 and Suzette had an appointment at 2:00, so I filled bowls with cucumber soup and garnished each bowl with avocado chunks and the remaining croutons.

After the market closed I checked and was up fractionally, Apple was down $3.53 but Nvidia was up $2.45.

I then began to accumulate evidence and documents to complete discovery for the LRGA until 4:30.

I watched some news and then at 5:30 I boiled shrimp and we ate the rest of the Coda Noodle Bowl and added shrimp. I also ate the remaining half of the pork spring roll with a shrimp.

We shared the last glass of 2021 Guy Saget Vouvray we opened at the Sunday night tailgate dinner at the opera. The slight sweetness of the Vouvray helped overcome the spiciness of the fish sauce.

After dinner we got ready for bed.  Suzette rested and read and I watched two videos about ramen shops in Japan and the extended coverage of Stage 16 of the Tour of Spain on You Tube until after 9:00, although we each ate a few bites of peach cobbler.

Today we reserved a cabin at the Apple Farm in Philo for the Pinot Festival in June next year and a hotel in Tokyo for the last five nights in Japan and in Honolulu on the way to Japan. 

Suzette was incredibly busy today and I made good progress identifying discovery to support our theories in the LRGA.

We enjoyed lovely leftovers for Lunch and Dinner without having to cook.

I like a hardy breakfast to energize my body.

Bon Appetit