June 1, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Enchiladas at Tiny Grocer Dinner - Baked Lemon Tarragon Chicken Thighs with Blanched Snow Peas and Fava Beans and Butternut squash Mashed Potatoes

 

June 1, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Enchiladas at Tiny Grocer Dinner - Baked Lemon Tarragon Chicken Thighs with Blanched Snow Peas and Fava Beans and Butternut squash Mashed Potatoes

I woke up at 4:00 and went back to sleep at 5:30 and slept until 7:15. Just in time to watch the market open down.

I then helped Suzette pick peas in the garden. This has been a great year for peas. We have been eating them for days with lots yet to come.

I spent the morning at my desk working on family finances, doctor appointments, and reading the recent Settlement in the Texas v. New Mexico U.S. Supreme Court case.

Then at 11:30 after Nvidia started to move up, I called Willy to see if he wanted to go to lunch. He walked over and we drove to Old Town to eat at the Tiny Grocer that Willy highly recommended. We both ordered enchiladas with beef and red chili. Although a bit expensive at $18.00 the enchiladas were gourmet quality with fresh local ingredients and a thick picante, clumpy red chili sauce that tasted liked had been cooked forever and the enchiladas had been baked in an oven to order, which are my favorite way for them to be prepared. 

We could only eat 1/2 of the large portion, so we each took a box home for a later meal.

I drove Willy back to work and then went home and read some more of the settlement until 1:45 when I watched the market close and after market coverage ubtil 2:30 when I checked my portfolio. Today’s market was choppy with lots of stocks dropping precipitously, but several going up a lot, like ARM and Nvidia going up $13.22. Thanks to the three strong gainers, my portfolio increased by 1% to a new high as did all the averages.

At 3:15 I walked around the block, which allowed me to accumulate over 3700 steps today.

Soon after I returned and lay down, Suzette arrived. I rested while she cleaned the kitchen, although I cleaned a skillet and two pots.

We then shucked peas for dinner and a future pea soup and extra for future meals. We also shucked the rest of the faca beans.

We decided to bake the chicken thighs I bought several days ago and season them with slices of lemon and sprigs of tarragon from our garden slid under their skin. We decided to serve them with a mixture of mashed potato and butternut squash and blanched fava beans with some of the snow peas.

Willy came over to join us for dinner around 7:00 as everything was finishing cooking.

I opened a bottle of 2022 La Granja Viura and Verdejo blend that is one of my favorites with baked chicken and poured glasses for each of us.  Suzette plated our plates with peas, mashed butternut squash potatoes and a chicken thighs I bought and we took them to the table under the gazebo in the garden.

At 7:15 it was starting to cool, so dinner was pleasant. We went back in at 8:00 and began watching Texas Tech women’s baseball team play Alabama in the semi-finals of the Women’s College World Series. Texas Tech won and will play Texas for the championship on Wednesday.

During the game we sipped cognacs and I ate two squares of Belgium milk chocolate.

Another excellent day of interesting food.

Bon Appetit.

When the game ended at 9:30 we went to bed