October 16, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant and Tea. Lunch - Vietnamese Miso Noodle Soup. Dinner - Grilled hamburgers filled with onion,garlic and parsley garnished with burrata and green chili ears of corn, and blanched sugar snap peas

October 16, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant and Tea. Lunch - Vietnamese Miso Noodle Soup. Dinner - Grilled hamburgers filled with onion,garlic and parsley garnished with burrata and green chili  ears of corn, and blanched sugar snap peas.

I started working at 5:30 but took a break at 7:30 to eat a chocolate  croissant and a cup of tea.

Then at 12:30 I reheated the leftover Vietnamese Miso Noodles Soup by adding a hui Tu seasoning cube, sliced Pork, about 2 cups of chopped Napa cabbage, and some more tofu and water.  This filled the pot up again k some there was still about 1/3 of the pot filled after I ate two bowls with a little hoisin sauce.

I worked after lunch until 3:30 when I walked around the block and then checked my portfolio. It was another volatile day in the market with Apple down $1.89 and Nvidia up $1.98 that was just enough to get my Portfolio to another .2% gain.

Then I worked until 5:30 when Suzette was ready to start dinner. 

We had spoken during the day and decided to cook hamburgers with corn on the cob. I wanted to cook sugar snap peas as the vegetable and Suzette wanted to make a sweet and sour cucumber and cherry tomato salad.

Suzette decided to mix minced onion, garlic and fresh parsley from the garden with the hamburger meat to make a delicious meatloaf style of hamburger, so I minced about 1/2 cup of onion,four cloves of garlic and about 1/3 cup of parsley leaves that Suzette mixed into the ground beef and formed into three patties, one larger than the other two.

We both ate our hamburgers open faced on a grill toasted bun. I ate the two smaller hamburgers.

I shucked the husks from the ears of corn and boiled them and after a few minutes added a handful of sugar snap peas I had destemmed to blanch the peas. It took longer than I thought for the hamburgers to cook which meant that the peas got a bit soft and water logged.

Suzette made the cherry tomato and cucumber salad, so we had a large dinner. 

I opened a bottle of Priorat from Spain that was a blend of 45% Grenache, 45% Carignan, and 10% Merlot that went well with the beef.

After dinner I watched two old warhorses go at it in the Thursday Night Football match up between Joe Flacco for the Bengals and Aaron Rodgers for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Bengals consumed the last 5 minutes in a long drive and kicked a field goal to win 33 to 31, which is the way many Pro games have been won this season.

I watched my third favorite show on PBS at 9:45 Foyle’s War and then finished this blog entry and went to bed.

Bon Appetit