April 13, 2026 Breakfast - Granola with blueberries Lunch - Vietnam 2000, No. 87 Flour Sheets with grilled Pork and Fried Egg Rolls. Dinner - Hamburger Steak with Steamed Broccoli and Bistro Mashed Potatoes

April 13, 2026 Breakfast - Granola with blueberries Lunch - Vietnam 2000, No. 87 Flour Sheets with grilled Pork and Fried Egg Rolls. Dinner - Hamburger Steak with Steamed Broccoli and Bistro Mashed Potatoes

Today was a great day of food. I ate an orange at 2:30 a.m. 

Then i awakened again at 7:35 and at 8:30 after I placed a sell order for some Nvidia’s shares I drove to Tricore to have my blood drawn.

When I returned home I still had enough energy left to make breakfast without taking a sugar pill, which indicated to me that I am gaining stamina. I ate a handful of granola in a bowl with milk, yogurt, and blueberries.

Then I worked at my desk until 11:15 when I toasted two slices of bagel, smeared them with cream cheese, and garnished them with slices of red onion and Gravad lax and put a handful of red seedless grapes in a sandwich bag and drove to dialysis at 12:30.

The nurse took a blood sample for testing but I was not put on a dialysis machine and was told to return Wednesday at 1:00 to meet with Dr. Adi.

I left Dialysis around 12:50 and called in a take out order to Vietnam 2000 for a No. 87, which is flour sheets laid on a bed of sautéed cucumber sticks, mung bean sprouts, and lettuce and garnished with fried egg rolls and grilled marinated slices of pork.  The dish is usually served with a sweetened fish sauce that has a lot of salt, but because I kept saying, “No salt.” The styrofoam take out container had no container of fish sauce, which made the dish drier than normally when one would dip the flour sheets into the fish sauce to moisten them. There was enough liquid in the sautéed vegetables to moisten the flour sheets, so I was happy with the dish even though it lacked sauce and salt.

I made a Vietnamese iced coffee to drink with the lunch and picked eight basil leaves to wrap around each of the pieces of egg roll  

I went home and enjoyed watching Leeds beat Man Union 2 to 1 in a thrilling PL matchup while I ate and drank my coffee.

I received the Tricore test results in the afternoon and my creatine is slowly going down, although still above normal. So, I may be near the end of dialysis.

When I after the PL match around 3:15 I checked the market and I had sold the Nvidia shares and had a slight gain in the market.

I then read the monthly report for the Lower Rio Grande Adjudication and realized that the due date for my Reply was today so I drafted and filed a Motion to Extend the Deadline for filing the Reply to May 7, 2026, and sent it for concurrence to all attorneys of record and the Court for filing barely before 5:00.

I then watched the news, which was dominated by more crazy antics by Trump such as publishing an AI generated image of him within an ethereal light that reminded one of Jesus healing a sick person. He also made a social media attack on the Pope that is probably losing him some Catholic votes and raises the obvious question, “Who is God’s chosen messenger to humanity to whom we owe our allegiance?”

Dinner - At 6:15 we decided to grill hamburger steaks, steam broccoli, and sauce them with a Mornay sauce made with French Racellete cheese and make creamy French bistro style Mashed potatoes with lots milk and butter. Since we could not put salt into the potatoes we decided to garnish them with fried to crisp shallot, garlic, and fresh sage. Willy joined us for dinner at 7:00.  

We served homemade bread and butter pickles canned by Suzette last year to further enliven the meal.

The thing that made the dinner great was the addition of a Mornay sauce on the meat and broccoli, sweet and sour pickles, and fried shallots on the potatoes, which diminished the lack of salt slightly and made the dinner much more French in its style.

Willy left around 7:45 after dinner and we watched the Antique Roadshow until 9:00 and then paid our Chase credit card bill and went to bed, Suzette to sleep and I to blog this entry and read Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen for a few minutes

Bon Appetit 

April 12, 2026 Snack - Hot Chocolate. Brunch - Bacon, Cottage Fries, and Eggs. Snack - Peanut Butter and Honey sandwich and Avocado Toast. Dinner - Orrechiette Pasta with 3 types of peas and Burrata, Parmesan cream sauce and fresh mint

April 12, 2026 Snack - Hot Chocolate. Brunch - Bacon, Cottage Fries, and Eggs. Snack - Peanut Butter and Honey sandwich and Avocado Toast. Dinner - Orrechiette Pasta with 3 types of peas and Burrata, Parmesan cream sauce and fresh mint

I woke up at 6:30 and watched Sunderland beat Tottenham to push it one step closer to relegation as I drank a mug of hot chocolate with a splash of rum.

We fixed breakfast at 10:00. I fried four slices of bacon and Suzette sautéed two baked potatoes cut into slices and then fried two eggs for me.  I think pasted the leftover slices of Sage Bakery dark bread and smeared them with butter and cherry preserves.

After brunch I rested for an hour.

Then we planted three of the fresh rose bushes we bought at Rhem’s Nursery yesterday.

They then watched TV and snacked on avocado toast and rested until 5:30 when we started dinner.

Dinner - Suzette was testing a special recipe for restaurant Week of boiled orecchiette pasta with three green peas in a lemon cream sauce with lemon zest and fresh mint, which we videoed.

The dish was good but the snow peas were not blanched long enough or sautéed long enough to cook them and cream sauce was not really a Bechamel, but only a dollop of cream that was reduced slightly, so diid not have the creamy consistency of Bechamel.

Otherwise the dish was an excellent Spring time vegetarian dish.  The other problem was I had not had a proper lunch and found myself hungry after eating a bowl of the pasta dish.

So, we then ate the best dish of the day. Suzette pressed vanilla ice cream between two chocolate, chocolate chip cookies to make an exquisite ice cream sandwich with sips of the Old Havana Germain Robin cognac.

I later also ate a bowl of quince and fig cobbler with two scoops of vanilla ice cream.

We went to bed at 9:00 after watching the first two episodes of Eva Longoria discovering France.  It seems her favorite French food is Croce Madame sandwiches and a homage to the creator of French Fries, just like her favorite food in Mexico was tacos. I hope her limited range of taste does not limit the breath of French Cuisine shown in the show.

Bon Appetit

April 10, 2026 Breakfast - Granola Lunch - Spaghetti and meat sauce. Snack - Bagel with Gravad Lax and grapes. Dinner - Spaghetti tossed with Trout Mornay Sauce

April 10, 2026 Breakfast - Granola  Lunch - Spaghetti and meat sauce. Snack - Bagel with Gravad Lax and grapes. Dinner - Spaghetti tossed with Trout Mornay Sauce

Today, I awakened at 7:00 and watched the market open. It was another risk on day in the market. My portfolio ended up another1.1%.

I worked on my reply and talked Scott for a while while I ate a bowl of granola, milk, yogurt, and blueberries.

Then at 11:00 we heated bowls of PPI spaghetti with tomato and meat sauce garnished with shredded mozzarella.

At 11:45 Suzette drove me to dialysis and I was put on a machine for two hours during which time I ate two slices of bagel spread with cream cheese and garnished with slices of red onion and the newly cured Gravad lax that was really delicious.

At 3:30 when Suzette picked me up after dialysis we drove to Smith’s on Carlisle at Constitution where we bought red and black grapes, asparagus, scallops, several cheeses, including Racalette. Ground beef, and blueberries.

We then went home and rested and watched the Artemis ii splashdown.

Suzette then diced asparagus and I minced a shallot and two sweet peppers that she sautéed and added to a Bechamel sauce to which she added several T. of Racalette, a splash of Albariño and the smoked trout from Sunday’s dinner to make a super rich trout Mornay sauce that she tossed with the sautéed shallot, peppers, and spaghetti.

I poured out the last two glasses of Faustino Rivera Ulcea Albariño.

We could neither finish our portions of spaghetti, so there will be some for breakfast, or our wine.

After dinner we walked in the garden and I accumulated over 2000 steps today.  The sage is blooming, so quite beautiful.

We watched a couple of Indiana Jones movies and went to bed around 9:00.

Bon Appetit

April 8, 2026 Breakfast - Lamb and Roasted Vegetable omelet Lunch - Leftover Chirashi. Dinner - Leftover Eggplant Parmigiana and Spaghetti and Salad

April 8, 2026 Breakfast - Lamb and Roasted Vegetable omelet  Lunch - Leftover Chirashi. Dinner - Leftover Eggplant Parmigiana and Spaghetti and Salad

I awakened at 6:00 and cleaned the Gravad lax and toasted four slices of bagel and Luke spread them with cream cheese while I sliced red onion and Gravad lax. We wrapped two for Luke and two for me and Luke left at 7:00 to drive 12 hours to Ari’s house in Idlewild, California.

A watched the Market open and then made a very savory two egg omelet with lamb, red onion, dabs of goat cheese, and Roasted root vegetables.

I worked at my desk until 11:00, when I ate a few bites of Quince and fig cobbler for a snack and grabbed the Gravad lax bagels and a bag of grapes and left for dialysis at 11:45.

When I arrived a draw of blood was taken and again I was not put on a machine.

The nurse said they would send the blood to Tricore for quicker analysis and to return on Friday. 

I drove home by 1:45 in time to see the market close with a slight gain and then Real Madrid lose to Madrid Athletico 2 to 0.

During the match I ate the Chirashi left from Tuesday lunch at Crazy Fish with the green wasabi plant. I heated the leftover sushi rice and made several cups of green tea and ate a luxurious lunch with my 1/2 and the extra pieces of salmon and albacore and seaweed salad and squid salad Henry left for me. It was a feast.

After lunch I rested until 4:00 when I watched the news.

When Suzette came home we decided to heat the leftover Eggplant Parmigiana, Spaghetti and Spaghetti Sauce. I opened a bottle of  Marco Bonfante La Stella Barbera di Asti Superiore that was smooth but not remarkable and we ate a hearty and delicious dinner.

Suzette made a salad with the bibb lettuce she had bought at Costco to accompany the dinner.

I finally felt full and enjoyed the feeling.

We went to bed at 8:30, but I woke up at 1:15 and finished reading Fer de Lance, our April book club selection, a detective story set in 1933 New York.

Bon Appetit

 

 

 

April 9, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate. Lunch - Tacos at Mary and Tito’s. Dinner - Grilled Rib Steak, Baked Potato and Sautéed Mushrooms and Asparagus

April 9, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate. Lunch - Tacos at Mary and Tito’s. Dinner - Grilled Rib Steak, Baked Potato and Sautéed Mushrooms and Asparagus 

Today I ate my first New Mexican food. When I awakened I ate a pain au chocolate and a Latte Macchiato at 9:00 after watching the News and a strong market open.

I worked at my desk until 12:15 when Aaron picked me up. We drove to Mary and Tito’s. Aaron ordered a Sopapilla turnover with chicken. I ordered the Thursday Special: two handmade tacos with double beans. This was my first New Mexican food at a restaurant and I loved it.

We worked on a Press Release for Earn that I think went quite well as we promoted AI to edit it.

After lunch I worked checked the Market and was pleased that my portfolio increased approximately 1.1% today.

 I then worked on Rahim’s project for a couple of hours until 4:30 when I watched some news until 5:00 when Suzette watched her home shows until 7:00.

I thawed a rib steak and baked five Yukon Gold potatoes.

Then I sliced three mushrooms and a shallot and I sautéed them with some leftover asparagus Amy made for our Easter dinner.

Suzette over cooked the steak so it was not the best steak dinner but I moved the baked potato stuffed with butter, sour cream and garnished with thinly sliced garlic chives from our garden at the table on our patio.

We drank the rest of the Barbera red we opened last night.

We lay in bed to watch Midsomer Murders at 8:00 and I dozed until Suzette awakened me at the end.

We then went to bed at 9:30.

Bon Appetit