May 29: 2025 Snack - Pita pocket filled with tabouli and creamy feta. Lunch - Panera Croque Madame Sandwich Dinner - Thai Fish Soup with rice

May 29: 2025 Snack - Pita pocket filled with tabouli and creamy feta. Lunch - Panera Croque Madame Sandwich  Dinner - Thai Fish Soup with rice

I ate a chocolate croissant and a latte machiatta early.  Then at 11:30 I filled a toasted 1/2 pita with tabouli and creamy feta for a snack.

At 1:15 I drove to HoJo for lunch with Rahim and Nizar and a tour of the first two finished rooms.

Rahim brought Panera’s new sandwich, a take on Croque Madame with cheese bechamel, sliced turkey instead of ham, and sweet peppers between slices of croissant bread that had that distinctive circular embedded in the bread, plus potato chips, a Dr. Pepper, and a cookie after the meal. I liked the chocolate chip cookie.

Then we toured the newly remodeled rooms, one with one California King bed and a larger room with two California King beds.

After the tour I highlighted my comments in a document and then drove home at 4:30. I had trouble talking to Nizar because I wanted to highlight the comments for Rahim.

At 5:00 I checked the market that had been up and down and ended up moderately at the close, resulting in a 1.45% gain for the day.

Suzette came home at 5:30. We discussed stocks and then I found a recipe for Thai Fish Soup.

I chopped ginger and sliced beech mushrooms and asparagus and fetched the red Thai curry and brown sugar, and made 2 cups of chicken stock and opened two cans of coconut milk and fetched the fish and the fish sauce.

We needed rice so I cooked 1 cup of rice adding 1/3 can of coconut milk to give the rice more flavor.

Suzette took over at the stove and sautéed the ginger, red curry in oil, then added the asparagus and mushrooms and sautéed them.  She then added the chicken stock and fish sauce and cooked those ingredients for 15 minutes and turned them off and we watched an episode of Midsomer Murders while the rice simmered for 30 minutes.

When the rice was cooked Suzette took over again and added the coconut milk while I minced a small handful of fresh cilantro and cut two small .Mexican limes in half.

We filled our bowls with warm rice and covered it with ladles of soup and zsuzette poured us glasses of chilled Le Ferme Julien rose.

We enjoyed the show as we ate.

Suzette went to bed at 9:30 and I stayed up to watch Foyle’s War until 11:30.

Bon Appetit