June 4, 2026 Breakfast - Two men on Islands Lunch - with Mike at Padilla’s Dinner - Leftover Baked Chicken with Lemon and Tarragon and Mashed Potatoes and Butternut Squash and Blanched Snow Peas with butter

June 4, 2026 Breakfast - Two men on Islands Lunch - with Mike at Padilla’s   Dinner - Leftover Baked Chicken with Lemon and Tarragon and Mashed Potatoes and Butternut Squash and Blanched Snow Peas with butter

Today turned out well but much of it was spent getting treated for a bacterial infection in my eyes.

I woke up at 7:00 and watched the Market open down but the market slowly came back and my portfolio managed a small .5% gain by the close.

I had a long and pleasant conversation with a client in the morning. Then I made Two Men on an Islad for breakfast, which was my mother’s title for fried egg sandwiches. I melted butter in a skillet and toasted two slices of Whole wheat bread on one side and then flipped the bread and added a bit of butter to toast the other side and added an egg on each and when the other side of bread was toasted flipped both together to cook the eggs to over easy. It is one of my favorite breakfast dishes. I drank a cup of chai with it.

At 11:00 I drove to East Ocean and met Mike but the restaurant was closed. Mike suggested Padilla’s, so we met there and each ordered blue corn enchiladas with beef. Mike made a suggestion on what computer to buy to replace my current laptop and explained AI to me a bit, especially why lots of memory is critical, which explains why large data centers are being built and why memory chip stock makers’ stock is rapidly rising.

After lunch I drove to my dentist’s office and bought a tube of toothpaste and then drove to Eye Associates for my appointment. I was early bur was taken early for the initial eye exam by the technician. I scored 20/20 vision on the exam, even with an eye infection, which later proved very important when the doctor examined me because she approved my vision on a Vision Report for MVD that will enable me to renew my driver’s license. 

I also called Red Tail Ridge and ordered a case of their natural Sparkling rose.

Finally at 3:00 I finished my doctor’s appointment and drove to Costco to pick up my prescription. It was not ready so I called Suzette and picked up some nuts for the employee party. I then went to the liquor department. They still had Precision Cabernet Sauvignon n sale for $11.99 so I bought four bottles, I also bought two bottles of Bogle Heritage red blend for $7.99 that is mainly a Zinfandel, a bottle of Kirkland Chablis Premier Cru that is highly rated.  

I need to slow down the wine buying, but there are so many good wines.  I hope we finish the wine cellar soon, so we will have a place to put the wine.

It was almost 5:00 by the time I arrived home and I was getting sore so I made a snack of herring opin wine sauce on whole wheat breadtoasted and spread with dour cream and garnished with red onion slices. I drank the last glass of La Granja Viura/Verdejo blend.

Around 5:45 Suzette heated two of the previously baked chicken thighs and

the leftover Mashed potatoes and butternut squash combined with the leftover gravy and blanched some snow peas from our garden.

I opened a bottle of Le Ferme Julien rose from the Southern Rhone.

After a pleasant dinner we each took a glass of rose to the big chairs in front of the RV and watched the U T women’s softball team beat Texas Tech to win the women’s NCAA softball National championship.

We then watched Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals. It was an exciting game thar Las Vegas tied 3 to 3 in the last 2 minutes to Deb’s it to overtime, which Carolina won to even the games at 1 each.

I then blogged and went to bed around 10:45.

Bon Appetit

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

June 2, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au chocolate Lunch - Mary and Tito’s with JD. Dinner - Vegetable Stroganoff

June 2, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au chocolate Lunch - Mary and Tito’s with JD. Dinner - Vegetable Stroganoff 

I woke up at 7:00 and watched the Market open and a bit of Morning Joe.  It seems the President has become bored with the War in Iran, which is horrible. Bthe good thing is that the DOJ has stopped the 1.776 billion fund until after a trial because the federal judge enjoined it.

I ate two thin slices of toasted bagel  with cream cheese, red onion , and thick slices of Gravad lax.

Then I read the Texas v. New Mexico settlement for a while. 

At 10:50 JD called and we met at Mary and Tito’s for lunch a few minutes after 11:00.

JD ordered a chili Relleno plate and I ordered a three taco plate with double refried beans. I gave J D a taco and he gave me half of one of his rellenos.  The Relleno was delicious and so were the tacos.

After lunch we drove to my house and I showed him my wine cellar and Art and opened a bottle of Cuarto Osos dry rose of Mencia we bought at Martin Codax Winery in Cambados, Spain. Suzette joined us for a glass of wine.

At 1:45 JD left and I watched the market close and then checked my portfolio. It increased another 1% today. That does not sound like much but since April 7 the portfolio has increased almost 25%, which is huge.

Unfortunately it illustrates the difference in wealth between the top 10% of US citizens who hold 80% of the wealth and the bottom 90%.

At 3:00 I napped until 4:00 when I watched Ari’s The Beat until 5:00.

Then Suzette and I drove to El Super for milk and brown sugar and ended up also buying Mango yogurt, limes, lemons, avocados, green onions, three smoked pork cutlets, a bunch of beets, broccoli, sour cream,flour and corn tortillas, cilantro, carrots, yellow and red onions, a bag of egg noodles, and tomatoes.

When we returned home we rested and then decided to combine the leftover steak, sweet potatoes, and  cream of mushroom soup and add the beet leaves, half of a red bell pepper and an orange Italian sweet pepper and toss with boiled egg noodles to make a vegetable stroganoff. We started by making a beef broth with the steak T-bone, plus carrots, celery, and onion.

Then I minced 1/2 onion and the red and orange pepper and three cloves of garlic from our garden and diced the leftover steak that Suzette then sautéed and added the chopped beet leaves and diced sweet potato.when the noodles were cooked she added them and the mushroom soup, sour cream,  and broth to make a smooth stroganoff sauce.

We opened a bottle of Precision Cabernet Sauvignon we bought at Costco. The tannic tartness of the wine went really well with the slight cream I that went really well with creaminess of the sauce and sweetness of the potatoes and pepper. It was a tasty dish that used a lot of leftovers, which provided space for all the new produce and groceries.

Later we watched an exciting game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals between Las Vegas and Raleigh, North Carolina that Las Vegas won 5 to 4.

Then Suzette went to bed and I stayed up to watch Castle Impossible at 10:00.

Deb Haaland won the Democratic primary for Governor. Perhaps she will be the first Indian female governor in the US.

Bon Appetit

June 1, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Enchiladas at Tiny Grocer Dinner - Baked Lemon Tarragon Chicken Thighs with Blanched Snow Peas and Fava Beans and Butternut squash Mashed Potatoes

 

June 1, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Enchiladas at Tiny Grocer Dinner - Baked Lemon Tarragon Chicken Thighs with Blanched Snow Peas and Fava Beans and Butternut squash Mashed Potatoes

I woke up at 4:00 and went back to sleep at 5:30 and slept until 7:15. Just in time to watch the market open down.

I then helped Suzette pick peas in the garden. This has been a great year for peas. We have been eating them for days with lots yet to come.

I spent the morning at my desk working on family finances, doctor appointments, and reading the recent Settlement in the Texas v. New Mexico U.S. Supreme Court case.

Then at 11:30 after Nvidia started to move up, I called Willy to see if he wanted to go to lunch. He walked over and we drove to Old Town to eat at the Tiny Grocer that Willy highly recommended. We both ordered enchiladas with beef and red chili. Although a bit expensive at $18.00 the enchiladas were gourmet quality with fresh local ingredients and a thick picante, clumpy red chili sauce that tasted liked had been cooked forever and the enchiladas had been baked in an oven to order, which are my favorite way for them to be prepared. 

We could only eat 1/2 of the large portion, so we each took a box home for a later meal.

I drove Willy back to work and then went home and read some more of the settlement until 1:45 when I watched the market close and after market coverage ubtil 2:30 when I checked my portfolio. Today’s market was choppy with lots of stocks dropping precipitously, but several going up a lot, like ARM and Nvidia going up $13.22. Thanks to the three strong gainers, my portfolio increased by 1% to a new high as did all the averages.

At 3:15 I walked around the block, which allowed me to accumulate over 3700 steps today.

Soon after I returned and lay down, Suzette arrived. I rested while she cleaned the kitchen, although I cleaned a skillet and two pots.

We then shucked peas for dinner and a future pea soup and extra for future meals. We also shucked the rest of the faca beans.

We decided to bake the chicken thighs I bought several days ago and season them with slices of lemon and sprigs of tarragon from our garden slid under their skin. We decided to serve them with a mixture of mashed potato and butternut squash and blanched fava beans with some of the snow peas.

Willy came over to join us for dinner around 7:00 as everything was finishing cooking.

I opened a bottle of 2022 La Granja Viura and Verdejo blend that is one of my favorites with baked chicken and poured glasses for each of us.  Suzette plated our plates with peas, mashed butternut squash potatoes and a chicken thighs I bought and we took them to the table under the gazebo in the garden.

At 7:15 it was starting to cool, so dinner was pleasant. We went back in at 8:00 and began watching Texas Tech women’s baseball team play Alabama in the semi-finals of the Women’s College World Series. Texas Tech won and will play Texas for the championship on Wednesday.

During the game we sipped cognacs and I ate two squares of Belgium milk chocolate.

Another excellent day of interesting food.

Bon Appetit.

When the game ended at 9:30 we went to bed