June 8, 2026 Breakfast - Bagel and Lax. Lunch - Chicken Noodle and dumpling Miso Soup. Dinner - at Monica and Aaron’s house Grilled Tri tip Roast, Asparagus and Corn with Salad

June 8, 2026 Breakfast - Bagel and Lax.  Lunch - Chicken Noodle and dumpling Miso Soup. Dinner - at Monica and Aaron’s house Grilled Tri tip Roast, Asparagus and Corn with Salad

I had a lazy day. I was sun burned so I did not leave the house all day.

Instead I cooked.

At7:15 I toasted 1/2 bagel cut into two thin slices, spread cream cheese on the slices and garnished them with slices of red onion and gravad Lax. That I ate with a up of chai as the market opened strongly upward. But the upward momentum dissipated as the day went on and my portfolio suffered a set back when Apple slid from gain to loss after the developers’ presentation by the new president.

My portfolio had a good day, increasing by .96% but not the great day it would have had had if the close was at 10:00 a.m.

After breakfast I processed six or seven Persian cucumbers and 1/8 head of red cabbage into Japanese pickles  by chopping the ingredients and placing them in a crock pot with 5 cups of rice vinegar, two cups of water, 2 T. of salt, 5 T. of.sugar following the recipe in the Japanese cooking: the Simple Art cookbook.

Then around 11:30 for lunch I boiled a chicken thigh with onion, a chopped carrot and stalk of celery to make a broth. The broth was weak until I pulled the  thigh into pieces and added a T. of red miso and a cube of pho seasoning, one of which had lots of salt. I then added a bundle of rice vermicelli and seven dumplings and some seaweed. Finally I added two pork balls sliced and 6 snow peas cut into thirds.  The result was very tasty especially with thinly sliced green onion,  a drizzle of hoisin sauce and fresh cilantro leaves.

I ate 1 1/2 bowls. Suzette ate some of the soup when she came home at 3:00.

It was windy and raining, so we did not ride bike together.

Instead we rested until 5:30 and then packed up a bottle of the Lussac-St. Emillion, a bunch of Asparagus, and a pear and drove to Monika and Aaron’s house in Tanzania East.for dinner. Aaron’s daughter, Alexi is a pretty and precocious 12 year old, was the official server for the meal. Aaron had bought shrimp and a cheese cake at Costco and two tip roasts and corn at Smith’s.

When we arrived Monica poured us glasses of Petite Petite, a red blend of petite Verdot and Petite Sirah. The wine was a little heavy but very drinkable.

Soon Alexi brought a large parfait glass ringed with large boiled shrimp and Monica brought small bowls of cocktail sauce and we nibbled shrimp and talked while Aaron grilled the meat, corn, and asparagus for a wonderful grilled dinner.

Monica made a Cesar salad also.

The tri tip steak was cooked perfectly to medium rare and was delicious. Aaron and Monica showed us the bottle of Kinder’s meat rub they had rubbed on the steak that they had bought at Costco and Suzette read the ingredients and they sounded really good.

It took me ten minutes longer than everyone else to finish eating but an extra bowl of salad was a must as was two slices of steak.

Finally, when I finished Aaron sliced slices of a lovely baked cheese cake from Costco.

Perhaps the best news was that on Aaron’s trip to Denver he was successful in getting Anadarko as a customer.

That is not quire correct, the best news was that Aaron’s medical issue was resolved and he was feeling much better.

Any 9:00 we eats goodnight after a lovely meal that felt like a fancy restaurant because of the excellent personal table service by Alexi.

We drove home and Suzette did laundry and I prepared a dish of gravad lax.

I had bought two full filets, so we had two large tail end filets and two smaller belly filets left after the 9 inch long filets for the gravad lax were cit. I was really tired so Suzette wrapped the two smaller filets and froze them for a future meal and bagged the tail filets that I will make into teriyaki salmon for dinner tomorrow evening to eat with rice and Japanese pickles.

We finally fell into bed after the laundry was dry at 10:00 and the graced lax weighted with a brick in the fridge.

All in all it was a big day of cooking, with a lovely meal and hospitality thrown in.

Bon Appetit