July 11, 2026 Snack, Breakfast - Fried Eggs over easy with sautéed potato and steak. Lunch - Vietnamese Chicken soup with Wontons and rice noodles. Dinner - Mediterranean meal brought by Jim and Dian

July 11, 2026 Snack, Breakfast - Fried Eggs over easy with sautéed potato and steak. Lunch - Vietnamese Chicken soup with Wontons and rice noodles.  Dinner - Mediterranean meal brought by Jim and Diane

I ate a Pain au Chocolate with a cup of chai when I woke up and watched a few minutes of Stage 8 of the Tour de France, a flat stage up the Dordogne River east from Bordeaux to Bergerac.

At 8:00 we rode bikes to the Farmers’ Market to buy three Le Quiche croissants 

Then at 8:30 Suzette sautéed Diced baked potatoes with the diced leftover steak. At 9:00 Willy arrived and Suzette fried eggs over easy and served them on a bed of sautéed potato and steak.

When we drove Willy to his airplane fight to LA to see Luke and then tomorrow to travel to San Diego for a one week GIS conference.

We then drove to Smith’s where we bought a tuna steak and two salmon fillets, green and red grapes, cilantro, milk, bagels, and chicken thighs.

Then we drove to Michael’s and selected a mat and frame for the new Japanese woodcut we bought last weekend.

When we returned home I heated the Vietnamese wonton chicken soup broth, added water and chicken broth plus Yu Choy stems, chicken, dumplings, and a bundle of rice vermicelli.  Then when it began to simmer I added the diced green Yu Choy leaves and some cilantro plus the wheat noodles, roasted pork. and leftover wontons from the restaurant’s soup. I sliced two green onions into thin ringlets and tore 1/4 cup of cilantro leaves with which Suzette and I garnished our bowls of soup. 

Then at 3:00 we watched  the World Cup quarter final between Norway and England. Norway found hard but England had a deeper bench and an extra man and won 2 to 1.

At 7:00 Jim and Diane brought lots of Mediterranean food, chicken and lamb kebabs, Greek salad, homemade Spanikopia, pitas, tzatziki, peppers, and baklava.

We ate and watched the Argentina v, Switzerland quarter final that Argentina won 3 to 1. This set up a battle of the favorites for the semi-finals of England v. Argentina and France v. Spain next week.

We served homemade limoncello with baklava for dessert that Diane really liked and Jim drank several beers while Suzette and I drank the Albariño they brought for my 80th.

It was a lot of food and we said goodnight when the match ended at 10:00 when they left three squares of Spanokopita and a triangle of baklava.

We then went to bed after an active day with over 4200 steps and lots of food.

Bon Appetit