Eating with Bob and Suzette: June 19, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate. Lunch with Greg and Ned Dinner with Melissa and Ruth

Friday, June 19, 2026

June 19, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate. Lunch with Greg and Ned Dinner with Melissa and Ruth

Today I ate a pain au chocolates at my desk for breakfast as I finished the paperwork for a transaction and then the notes and grades for The Lover by Duras by noon.

Then Ned and Greg arrived with lunch. Ned had made a potato and ham frittata and brought a sushi roll from Lowe’s. Greg brought eggplant in garlic sauce and mixed vegetables and rice from East Ocean.

Suzette joined us and we filled our plates and took them out to the gazebo and enjoyed a leisurely lunch. I then showed them my art collection, which impressed Greg especially because his mother was an artist.

Then we watched the last half of the US 2 to 0 victory over Australia to send the US into the round of 32.

Ned and Greg left after the match and I made Cesar salad dressing with juice of 1 lemon, a can of anchovies diced, about 2/3 cup of good olive oil and an egg whisked into a dressing and grated 1 1/2 cups of fresh Parmesan cheese for the Cesar salad for dinner, while Suzette made cream of green pea soup with peas from our garden and tore two heads of romaine for the Cesar salad and made an apricot cobbler with apricots from our tree she had previously cooked with brown sugar.

I opened the chilled bottle of Trader Joe’s Bandol and poured Suzette and me glasses that we drank while we cooked.

I then watched Morocco beat Scotland until Melissa and Ruth arrived at 5:30 with a bottle of Bloodhood Rose from Provence from Costco and a bottle of Santa Margharita Pinot Grigio from Italy from Costco. We poured out the Bandol and then the Bloodhood for dinner while Suzette filled covered soup bowls with green pea soup and tossed the cheese, croutons, and dressing with the lettuce and then served cesar salad in chilled pasta bowls.

We carried our salad bowls and wine glasses and Suzette brought the soup bowls to the table under the gazebo where we ate dinner.

Around 6:45 Suzette served parfait glasses filled with apricot cobbler garnished wit crème fraiche.

Then Melissa drove us to the parking garage under Civic Plaza. We walked through a Juneteenth concert in Civic Plaza to the Kiva Auditorium in the Convention Center for a concert by Herbert Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. We enjoyed all the old music and the video program shown while the music was played from Alpert’s over 60:year career and is still performing at age 91.