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.

March 26, 2026 Breakfast - Pork, cabbage, poblano chili, and onion Omelet Lunch - Chicken and Tomato Sandwich. Dinner - Broiled Mackerel with Cottage Fried Potatoes and Sautéed Sorrel and zucchini

March 26, 2026 Breakfast - Pork, cabbage, poblano chili, and onion Omelet Lunch - Chicken and Tomato Sandwich. Dinner - Broiled Mackerel with Cottage Fried Potatoes and Sautéed Sorrel and zucchini 

I awakened around 6:00 and rested in bed until 6:30. 

At 7:00 I made a pork, onion, poblano chili, and zucchini omelet.

 Then watched the market open down and then a really funny thing happened. The business news cut to a Cabinet meeting in the White House and Trump talked for about fifteen to twenty minutes in rambling thoughts and as he did the market kept going down and down. By the end of the day the Dow was down 460 points and the NASDAQ was down 521 points and my portfolio suffered a 2.5% loss. It must have been humiliating that instead of talking the market up, he talked it down.

At 10:00 Suzette and I spoke to Dr. Bungo about my lab results and we all agreed that I was making progress in my recovery of my kidney function.

Dr. Bungo suggested that I eat five small meals instead of three large meals, so at noon I toasted two slices of rye bread and spread them with mayo and garnished them open faced with slices of tomato, red onion, chicken, and lettuce. I ate half and saved the other half for tomorrow.

Then from 1:00 until 3:30 I went to book club and ate a slice of key lime pie and some tropical fruit salad.

Then when Suzette came home at 4:00 and at 5:00 we ate snacks. Suzette ate a bowl of pistachios and ate the leftover bagel with gravad lax.

Then Suzette snoozed until 7:45 and I watched Texas lose to Purdue in the round of sweet 16.

Suzette thawed out a mackerel and at 8:00 I filleted the mackerel and Suzette broiled it.  She also sautéed several baked potato cut in slices with some onion in one skillet and slices of zucchini and some sorrel leaves from our garden. Willy came over for dinner and I poured out the last 1/2 of the 2021 Red Newt Pinot Gris.

We then looked and discussed my lab results until 9:00 when Willy left and we went to bed.

Bon Appetit