July 1, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - East Ocean Dinner - Deconstructed Eggplant Parmesan and Spahetti
Today was interesting from both food and entrtainment.
I started the day at 8:00 helping Suzette in the back yard to get ready for the party on Thursday.
Then around 8:45 I ate a pain au Chocolate with a latte macchiato with collagen. I have been dissolving collagen in my breakfast beverage for about ten days and am beginning to notice that my skin seems to be thickening and is more resilient to cuts and bruises.
I worked at my desk until 10:00 when I watched England win its match.
Then Henry called and he and Rosie picked me up and drove us to East Ocean for lunch. Rosie suggested we order the Family Dinner that includes soup, an appetizer plate with a fried shrimp, an egg roll, a fried won ton, and a plum paste filled sesame coated fried ball of dough. Then we chose three entrees. I picked chicken with mixed vegetables, Henry chose Shrimp and vegetables, and Rosie chose Chicken with Lo Mein noodles. They were served with bowls of brown fried rice and white steamed rice. We ate the vegetable dishes first and had very little room for the Lo Mein Noodles. We were each also served a fried chicken wing. It was a massive amount of food and I tried to control myself and eat mostly vegetables, which were delicious in a light thickened chicken stock sauce.
They gave me all the leftover food and I thanked them and said, “Suzette will love it.”
Then they drove me by their family’s property on Rio Grande just north of I-40. They own an impressive .6 acre piece of dirt.
I returned home at 2:30 and checked the portfolio. The market was down and the tech sector with it. After a 2.4% increase yesterday there was a predictable pull back today. Thankfully it was only .9%.
I lay down at 3:00 and napped until 4:30, when Suzette arrived. She ate some of the Lo Mein Noodles as a snack and the rest later for her dinner. So the leftover lunch was appreciated.
Suzette wanted to prepare the Lemon Tiramisu tonight, so after a cocktail and a bit of HGTV I cut slices of peel off a lemon and squeezed a cup of lemon juice from four or five lemons. I then combined 2 1/4 cup of sugar in a pot with the peel and the lemon juice and Suzette heated it to make lemon syrup.
Willy came at 5:45 and helped set up the three umbrellas to shade the tables where guests will sit tomorrow evening.
Then at 6:00 willy and I watched the U.S. v. Bosnia-Herzogovenia World Cup match while Suzette continued making the tiramisu. She whisked two lb. of marsacapone and then we folded in whipped cream.
Then she three layers of lady fingers,beach soaked with lemon syrup and brushed with lemon curd and coated with the marsacapone cream.
Suzette also brought home roses from the Center for the party.
She poured the rest of the syrup over the top of the top layer and covered the tiramisu with Saran and put it in the fridge.
After the U.S. won the match 2 to 0 with only 10 players for the last forty minutes.
Suzette prepared us bowls of the baked baby eggplants, with tomato and leek and burrata on spaghetti and I grated about 1/2 cup of Parmesan cheese with which we garnished the heated bowl. I drank the rest of the Palazzo Della Torre with my meal.
The Deconstructed Eggplant Parmesan is a new dish that Suzette created to utilize the baby Italian eggplants we bought at Talin. It is a better rendition of the dish than the grilled or breaded and fried eggplant slices normally found in Eggplant Parmesan and has no bread crumbs., so it accentuates rather than hides the eggplant.
Suzette ate the rest of the Lo Mein and drank Scott-Riley Oregon Pinot that Keith had brought to the party last Thursday.
We loved the eggplant dish, which was tastier tonight with the extra burrata.
Willy left at 9:00 and we watched Kimbrrley on PBS about the Wildlife in remote Northwest Australia and went to bed at 10:00.
Suzette to sleep and I to blog.
Bon Appetit
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