March 31, 2026 Breakfast - Egg sandwiches. lunch - bagel with lax. Dinner - Tomatillo and Chicken blue corn Enchilada Casserole

March 31, 2026 Breakfast - Egg sandwiches. lunch - bagel with lax. Dinner - Tomatillo and Chicken blue corn Enchilada Casserole

I awakened at 7:30 and around 8:00 made two Egg Sandwiches, fried eggs on toasted and buttered slices of rye bread.

The U.S. decided on Peace with Iran last night, so today was one of or the best day in the market ever. After losing about 10% of the value of my portfolio in the last few weeks, today I regained about 1/3 of that lost value, so a huge day in the Market.

Then I met with Aaron around 10:30 and discussed Earn and at noon I toasted two slices of bagel and spread goat cheese on them and garnished them with slices of red onion, Gravad lax, tomato and avocado for a lunch.

I then watched World Cup soccer. The most impressive victory was Bosnia-Hertzegovina beating Italy on penalty shots.

In the afternoon around 3:00 when Suzette arrived we made a pot full of tomatillo sauce with onion garlic, tomatillos, chicken broth, and two Anaheim chilis.

Then she continued to slice mushrooms and red sweet peppers and then sautéed them.

I picked and chopped a handful of young oregano that I added to the tomatillo sauce.

Then at 5:00 was a friendly between the US and Portugal and at 5:30 Willy arrived with the zucchini and Mexican squashes I had asked him to buy and bring. Suzette sliced the squashes and sautéed them to cook them.

Then we assembled the enchilada casserole. We soaked each of 18 blue corn tortillas in a skillet filled with tomatillo sauce diluted a bit with chicken broth.

We laid six on the bottom of a Pyrex 9 x 13 baking dish.then we spread squash and requeson, then another six tortillas and a layer of chicken, mushrooms, requeson, tomatillo sauce, and peppers, then another layer of tortillas covered with ground cojita cheese.

Suzette then poured tomatillo sauce to fill the pan and baked them with slices casserole for 1/2 hour while we watched Portugal’s Fernandez masterly fed balls to strikers for two goals.

Willy sliced an avocado and Suzette fetched the sour cream.

Suzette and Willy shared a Dos Equis and I drank water.

This was one of the best enchiladas I have eaten. I loved the sautéed mushrooms and squash combination.

We then watched a repeat of finding your roots and Willy left.

We watched a house hunters in Playa del Carmen and later I blogged and watched Iraq play Bolivian in a World Cup qualifier.

Later I ate two chocolate covered macadamia nut clusters

Bon Appetit

March 30, 2026 Snack and Breakfast - Granola. lunch and Dinner - Chicken Noodle and wonton Soup

March 30, 2026 Snack and Breakfast - Granola. lunch and Dinner - Chicken Noodle and wonton Soup

Today I pushed myself to do more. 

Actually I woke up at 2:30, as I often do, but this time I ate a bowl of granola with tropical fruit salad and yogurt. Then when I awakened at 6:15 I ate another bowl of granola with fruit salad, sand yogurt and milk this time.

Then I drove to El Super to buy the ingredients for blue corn chicken enchiladas, included ng blue corn tortillas, natural sour cream, mozzarella cheese, requeson, and ground cojita cheese plus a bag of tomatillos and three big Jim Anaheim chilis.

I also bought snow peas, asparagus, Granny Smith apples, oranges, lemons, broccoli, an acorn squash, a small Napa cabbage, brown onions, garlic, and carrots.

When I returned home I called Amy and thanked her for letting me  know that Bea had died. Then I received a call, the Pres, social worker, and finally made noodle and dumpling soup with the old chicken stock and an equal amount of water plus Napa cabbage, a minced shallots, sliced green onions, rice vermicelli, egg noodles, Korean dumplings, garlic chives, and sesame oil.

I ate a few bites of soup at 12:10 and then drove to dialysis from 1:00 until 4:30.

Then I drove to Costco to pick up a replacement hearing aid for the one I lost.

I also bought two bottles of Kirkland Cotes Du Rhone rose, a new wine for Costco, plus a package of lamb chops and a jar of chocolate covered caramel centered macadamia nuts.

Then with the help of a fifth glucose pill, I filled my tank for $3.49 per gallon and drove home, where Suzette was relaxing and did not wish to cook.

Dinner - there was lots of Chicken Noodle Soup left, so we decided to eat it for dinner, which was great because I could watch the Texas women’s basketball team decimate Michigan and then TCU lose to  South Carolina. We also watch some Antiques Roadshow.

Then Suzette went to bed at 9:00 and I blogged and watched Rachel review the massive No Kings marches all across the country, which appears to be the largest March in US history at over 3000 cities and over 8 million marchers.

Indivisible announce a General Strike for May 1 on Rachel’s show tonight, so the wave to stop Trump is building.

Bon Appetit

March 29, 2026 Breakfast - Scrambled Eggs with trout, shallot, mushrooms, and garlic. Lunch - Peanut Butter and Honey sandwiches. Dinner - Leftover Chicken curry and Rice

March 29, 2026 Breakfast - Scrambled Eggs with trout, shallot, mushrooms, and garlic. Lunch - Peanut Butter and Honey sandwiches. Dinner - Leftover Chicken curry and Rice

I woke up around 6:30 and Suzette brought me a latte Macchiato in bed and I watched the news until 8:00 when I dressed and went to the TV room.

After 8:30 Suzette was working with Carlos to clean the shed and garage and fix a water leak in the backyard irrigation system.

At 10:00 I got hungry and spread peanut butter and honey of three slices of toasted baguette.

Then at 11:30 when Suzette finished cleaning the garage, she sautéed the shallot, trout, mushrooms, and garlic I had sliced in olive oil and butter and scrambled the cooked ingredients with three whisked eggs.

I then watched France beat Colombia in a World Cup friendly 5 to 2.

Then we watched U Conn make a last second three point shot to beat Duke and at 5:00 I toasted three more slices of baguette and spread butter on them and garnished them with slices of Leyden cheese and also ate a few grapes.

We watched Ms. Fisher from 6:00 to 7:00 and talked to Luke.

Dinner - we heated the leftover Chicken curry and rice for dinner and then I took a shower with Suzette’s help and we got in bed and watched the Forsyths at 8:00 and went to bed at 9:00.

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Bon Appetit

March 28, 2026 Breakfast - Chai and Pain au Chocolate Snack - Egg Drop Soup. Lunch - Chicken Curry with Rice. Dinner - Smoked Trout with Rice and Sautéed Trout Skin

March 28,  2026 Breakfast  - Chai and Pain au Chocolate Snack - Egg Drop Soup. Lunch - Chicken Curry with Rice. Dinner - Smoked Trout with Rice and Sautéed Trout Skin

I awakened at 6:30 and drank a chai with a pain au chocolate.

Then I prepared chicken curry for lunch. I first boiled the six chicken thighs I bought yesterday with a mirepoix . While the chicken boiled for 1 1/2 hours I peeled and diced and sautéed a sweet potato, 1 1/2 red onions, and minced four cloves of garlic in a casserole in canola oil.  Then I deboned the chicken and added 1/2 of it to the curry, plus a handful of raisins, and about a T. of curry powder and added enough of the chicken broth to cover the ingredients and then added one apple diced, and minced garlic chives and fennel from our garden at around 10:00 and simmered the entire mixture for another two hours.

I then heated the remaining chicken broth and mirepoix and added two whisked eggs to make a large bowl of egg drop soup as a snack.

I also covered the thigh bones with water and simmered the pot for several hours to make another stock, this time with minced garlic chives and parsley from our garden.

Suzette returned around 1:00 and I used two cups of the new broth and two cups of water to cook two cups of rice.

Around 2:00 Suzette and I ate curry with rice and the lovely apricot chutney she made last year with apricots and salty lime pickle.

Willy came over and ate some curry and we watched Belgium beat the US men’s team in soccer and the Texas women basketball team crush Kentucky.

Aaron, Monica, and Alexi visited at 3:00 for and hour and then we drove to Costco where we bought mussels, trout, mushrooms, red and green grapes, unsalted pistachios and butter, and Greek yogurt.

The trout were big and cheap at $2.99 but the mussels were all cracked and dead and had to be thrown out.

Suzette stuffed the stomach cavity of the trout with garlic chives, lemon thyme and butter and smoked them to perfection. 

I watched TCU women win their sweet 16 match against Virginia, so I was happy.

The creative thing that Suzette then did was sauté the trout skin in olive oil and then we mixed the crisp skin with rice and garnished the rice mixture with a piece of warm smoked trout for a new very very Japanese dish.

After dinner we watched Bill Maher and Have I got News for You and went to bed at 10:00 after an evening of comic relief from the oppressive news of the day punctuated with the glimmer of hope from seeing millions of Americans demonstrating and marching against Trump’s autocratic rule and war in Iran in the third No Kings rally.

Bon Appetit

March 27, 2026 Breakfast - Mackerel, onion, cabbage, and poblano Omelet. Lunch - Chicken Sandwich Dinner - Oysters and Sautéed Shrimp in Garlic butter (Gambas con Ajo) and Orzo Salad

March 27, 2026 Breakfast - Mackerel, onion, cabbage, and poblano Omelet. Lunch - Chicken Sandwich   Dinner - Oysters and Sautéed Shrimp in Garlic butter (Gambas con Ajo) and Orzo Salad

The new mantra is lots of snacks.  I started with a latte Macchiato at 7:00.

Then at 8:30 I made an omelet with small amounts of red cabbage, onion, poblano chili, and the leftover mackerel from last night’s dinner and two whisked eggs.

After I ate the omelet I toasted two slices of baguette and spread 5hem with butter and French Berry Jam.

Then around 11:00 I toasted a slice of baguette and spread peanut butter and honey on it.

I then packed the two uneaten chicken sandwiches from yesterday’s lunch and a bag of red grapes and drove to dialysis with Sense and Sensibility and a Rex Stout novel newly loaded onto my I Pad.

The time went quickly today reading Sense and Sensibilty and talking to Jody the dietitian and eating grapes and one of the chicken sandwiches.. Actually I began clotting at the three hour mark and they took me off the machine.

I stopped at Lowe’s on the way home and bought three avocados, a gallon of milk, red beets, a sweet potato, two turnips, beautiful small Brussels sprouts, and chicken thighs. The plan was to fix baked chicken and roasted root vegetables.

When I got home at 4:30 I was tired but had taken a sugar pill to keep going.  I ate the other chicken sandwiches from yesterday’s while Suzette ate pistachios in front of the TV.

Then we called Whole Foods and ordered 3 dozen oysters on the half shell.

At 5:45 we drove to Whole Foods and picked up the oysters plus a bunch of green onion, a head of Butter lettuce, a small container of orzo, feta, olive, and spinach salad, carrots, and a stem of tomatoes.

When we returned home Suzette thawed some shrimp and I minced 4 cloves of garlic and some red onion that Suzette sautéed with the shrimp. Suzette also made a cocktail dipping sauce with catsup, horseradish, and lemon.

Suzette also fetched a chilled bottle of Faustino Ulcea Albariño from the fridge and we had a lovely dinner, although some of the shrimp were freezer burned.

I drank 1/2 glass of wine and enjoyed it better than the Pinot Gris and Sauvignon blanc we drank recently.

The Misty Point oysters were our favorites tonight. We did not like the Olde Salt and Moondancer oysters.

We then watched “Rumor has it” on Netflix. 

Suzette went to bed at 9:15 and I stayed up until 12:00 to watch a 2026 Swedish movie titled Swedish Connection about how Swedish diplomats saved about 100:000 Danish Jews and then drafted my blog for today.