March 3, 2025 Lunch - Bologna and cheese sandwiches and Potato Chips. Dinner - Baked Tandoori Chicken with Rice and broccoli with cheese fondue sauce

March 3, 2025 Lunch - Bologna and cheese sandwiches and Potato Chips. Dinner - Baked Tandoori Chicken with Rice and broccoli with cheese fondue sauce

I ate granola with yogurt, milk, and tropical fruit salad for breakfast.

Then at 10:15 I drove to DHL and sent credit cards to Willy in Kuala Lumpur.

I returned home and sent a check for taxes to Wink - Loving ISD and some more paperwork.

At noon I made three small sandwiches on rounds of baguette spread with mustard and Mayo and slices of Lebanon Bologna and Racalette and washed them down with a glass of Kirkland Saint Emillon.  

Then at 1:00 I went to Bill Turner’s office and worked for 3 hours revising a complaint and affidavit.

At 4:00 I returned home and  brought in the chicken leg quarters and broccoli.

Suzette was resting on the Crystal heating pad.

I ate a cookie with a cup of tea and rested until 6:00.

The news is terrible. Trump said today he was going to implement the tariffs and that sent the markets tumbling over 2%. I keep thinking something will happen to correct the trajectory toward catastrophe but then this evening it was reported that Trump has cut off American aid to Ukraine. It keeps getting worse.

I heard an interesting theory by a commentator this evening. That Trump was so afraid of going b to jail that he sought the aid of Russia and Musk and others. He really does not want The responsibility of governing so he is letting Musk and the Russians take over governing. 

We will see tomorrow night when he speaks to the nation what his governing principles will be.

At 6:00 we started dinner.

Dinner - I separated the legs from the thighs and fetched the tandoori seasoning and cut the flowerets from the clusters of broccoli and fetched the saffron basmati rice left from our dinner at Mazaya Saturday night.

Suzette then took over and dusted the chicken with tandoori and sautéed the chicken in canola oil and then baked the chicken in the oven for about twenty minutes. I blanched the broccoli in a pot of water with a little salt.

Suzette decided to make a cheese sauce so I cubed about 1/4 lb. of Racalette cheese while Suzette made a butter and flour roux in a sauce pan. She then added milk and 1/2 of the cheese. It took a few minutes for the sauce to heat to the point that the cheese melted. Then we added the rest of the cheese and some white wine and I stirred the sauce until all the cheese melted.

While I was stirring the sauce Suzette heated some of the rice in the microwave and opened a bottle of chilled Kirkland Pinot Grigio and poured glasses of it.

Suzette then plated the plates. She did not eat any rice but poured sauce over a plate full of broccoli and put a leg and a thigh on the broccoli.

For me Suzette placed a pile of rice beside some broccoli and a thigh on top of the rice and I sauced the broccoli.

It was a great dinner I loved the Swiss fondue sauce on the broccoli that I ate with bites of rice and chicken. I even ate the crisp part of the chicken skin covered with tandoori seasoning.

I went bed to Blog this entry at 8:00 and read Baumgartner by Asher.

Bon Appetit