June 3, 2026 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Lunch - Lime Restaurant with Alan. Dinner - Hamburger steak, steamed Broccoli, and Leftover Roasted Potatoes

June 3, 2026 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Lunch - Lime Restaurant with Alan. Dinner - Hamburger steak, steamed Broccoli, and Leftover Roasted Potatoes

I slept 6 1/2 hours straight last night which seems like a new post hospital record.  It may be because we are riding bikes each morning around the neighborhood.

With the extra exercise I am accumulating over 4000 steps each day and beginning to feel better. I love my new Catrize recumbent bike that allows me to pedal from a comfortable reclining position.

Before riding I got up at 7:00 and toasted two thin slices of bagel and spread them with cream cheese and garnished them with paper thin slices of red onion and rather thick slices of Gravad lax. Suzette does not eat the Gravad lax so I find that I like a thicker slice and there is enough for me to eat it every day, if I wish for another few days. I drank a latte macchiato.

Fresh salmon is on sale at Smith’s so I will make more Gravad lax in the next few days.

At 11:00 I drove to Lime to meet Alan for lunch. We both ordered No. 16, Chicken Soup with Wontons and egg noodles. The large bowls of soup also have lots of slices of roast pork, which is a house specialty at Lime.  No. 16 is my current favorite at Lime

After lunch I drove to Trader Joe’s and bought three lb.s of chocolate, two two packs of tiramisu (one lemon and one regular chocolate), a wedge of Delice, two boxes of fig and olive crackers and a case of wine; two Cotes de Nuit Village red, two Palantir Sauvignon Blancs, four Bandol roses, an Italian red, two Ferme’ Julián roses, and an Espiral vino verde.

I drove home and at 2:00 Keith arrived we discussed his case and then sipped wine and ate the fresh Delice on toasted baguette and then fig and olive crackers until 3:30 when I meditated until 4:00.

I then watched checked the portfolio and it had decreased 1.26% in a heavy sell off that pushed the Dow down 621 points and the NASDAQ down 230. 

I watched the news until Suzette came home around 6:00.

I opened the Italian red wine and sipped some around 6:00. It was not very good. It lacked any fruit and was rather tannic.  Suzette did not like it also, which is the real proof it was not a good wine.

Dinner - Suzette formed three large hamburgers from the defrosted ground beef and I de-stemmed the flowerets from one head of broccoli and steamed them while Suzette grilled the hamburgers and re-heated the leftover roasted potatoes.

We enjoyed dinner even though the wine was not good.

This was the type of dinner I ate when growing up in Fort Worth. My dad and I would go to a locker plant each year where sides of beef were hung and select a side of beef that the locker plant would age for approximately 28 days the sides of beef usually weighed 300 lb.s. So it would usually be cut into steaks, roasts and there was always over 100 lb.s of hamburger.

So growing up we ate hamburger steaks with a vegetable and potatoes, like tonight, at least once a week.

The phrase in North Texas in those days was something like, “A day without Beef is a day without real food.”

Both Armour and Swift had large slaughter plants in Fort Worth and there were lots of locker plants that aged and cut beef, so it was plentiful and delicious. A favorite food.

After dinner we watched the Texas women’s softball team beat Texas Tech 7 to 3 in the first of best of three games of the NCAA championship. Texas’ pitcher named Kavan was cool and calm and mowed down Tech’s hitters with multiple strikeouts.

We ate a few squares of milk chocolate and Willy came by and heated up a plate of food we saved for him and we talked to Luke in California.

At 9:00 I reviewed a document and we went to bed at 10:00.

Bon Appetit