September 28, 2025 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Snack - Shrimp Salad on toast and PPI pasta. Dinner - Grilled Trout wrapped in Korean Basil on a bed of salad with an ear of corn

September 28, 2025 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Snack - Shrimp Salad on toast and PPI pasta. Dinner - Grilled Trout wrapped in Korean Basil on a bed of salad with an ear of corn

This was a work and rest day with a great dinner.

I started out watching some soccer then Fareed and a bit of Arsenal v. Newcastle. But started helping Suzette around 10:00 with an IDR response and missed the exciting finish when Arsenal scored two goals in the last few minutes to win and go into 2nd place in the Premier League

At 9:15 I toasted three 1/4 thick slices of bagel and spread cream  cheese on them and garnished them with thin onion, avocado, and lax slices.  

At 2:00 I made a snack for us of Swedish Shrimp Salad on a slice of toasted Bosque bakery whole wheat sourdough bread. I also ate the four or five forkfuls of PPI penne and beef and mushrooms with a shishito.

From 4:00 until 6:00 I rested, while Suzette drove to Lowe’s and bought three 1 x 6 inch cedar planks and cut a part of one board and soaked it.

I got up at 6:00 to start preparing dinner. Suzette hade started making a salad with lettuce, radish spears, and cherry tomato halves. I cut the head and tail off the three trout I bought at Costco Friday. Then I made a stuffing by slicing five or six green onions into thin ringlets and mixing them with butter and lemon thyme leaves plus salt and pepper. I stuffed the mixture into the stomach cavity of each trout and wrapped each with thread to hold the cavity closed. Suzette picked lemon thyme and Korean basil in the garden. She wrapped the trout in Korean Basil and then grilled the fish.

Then I finished the salad while Suzette boiled two ears of corn.

Suzette added avocado and I added cucumber and onion and made a Dijonnaise dressing and dressed the salad.

When the trout were grilled, I filleted one and we put 1 filet on each salad and fetched our corn bowls and served an ear of corn with the warm fish salad.

I poured glasses of Kirkland Marlborough New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, a great bottle of wine for $6.99 at Costco.

The best part of the meal was that Suzette clipped a basket of lemon thyme from the garden. I added about a T. of thyme to the green onion and butter stuffing for the trout and the most exciting use was sprinkling leaves on the ear of corn that gave a very pleasant citrusy flavor to the corn.  This was a new flavor discovery.

We ate a fabulous dinner and have two smoked trout left to eat. 

After dinner we watched the Marvel Murder Club and then the end of regulation of the Cowboys v. Green Bay.  When overtime started Suzette went to bed and I watched Astrid at 10:00.

At 11:00 I blogged this entry and rhen went to sleep.

Bon Appetit