May 17, 2026 Breakfast - Granola with Fruit Salad Lunch - Avocado Toast Dinner - Costco Roasted Chicken with Rice and Sorrel and Steamed snow Peas and Sugar snap Peas

May 17, 2026 Breakfast - Granola with Fruit Salad Lunch - Avocado Toast Dinner - Costco Roasted Chicken with Rice and Sorrel and Steamed snow Peas and Sugar snap Peas

I did not sleep well due to the rash around my dialysis catheter site and woke up at 6:00. I watched Leeds beat BHA in added time.

Then I chopped a papaya, a pineapple, three mangos, and three oranges and added the juice of a sweet lime to make my tropical fruit salad.

I ate a bowl of granola with milk, yogurt, and fruit salad as I watched West Ham go into relegation from the PL.

Around noon Willy and Matt came by and we served them a bowl of fruit salad with mango yogurt and then Suzette made avocado toast. Mat then helped me trim the Don Juan rose bush.

Willy and Matt left and we picked up Willy at his house and drove to Costco so willy could buy some stuff he needed.

We also bought staples, including, a toasted chicken, grapes, eggs, blueberries, baguettes, Mayo, and 9 Bottles of wine; two Kirkland Pinot 

Grigio, two Kirkland New Zealand Sauvignon Blancs, a Chateauneuf Du Pape, two Cotes du Provence roses, a Kirkland Malbec, and one other

We drove home and I napped for an hour until 5:20.

Dinner - The snow peas and sugar snap peas we planted this year are at the height of their production, so our dinner menu was easy, roasted chicken, peas and rice. 

Rice - We went to the garden and picked a basket full of peas plus several stalks of garlic chives and thyme.

While I was chopping the garlic chives into thin slices, suzette went back to the garden and picked about ten leaves of sorrel and I processed that by removing the stem in each leaf and chopping the leaves into bite sized pieces.

I then heated three cups of water and added about 2 tsp. dried Japanese seaweed and as the water began to boil Suzette added the chopped garlic chives, sorrel, and thyme. Then I added the seasoned chicken juice from the bottom of the bag of chicken and 1 1/2 cups of rice. We covered the pot and reduced the heat to low and steamed the rice for 30 minutes.

Willy arrived and Suzette fetched a bottle of the Pinot Grigio we had chilled.

Suzette then destemmed the peas and blanched them in butter.

I sectioned the chicken and we put a breast, two thighs, and a drumstick iinto a Pyrex baking dish and heated the chicken in the microwave.

When 5e rice was ready we filled our plates with chicken, peas and rice and drank glasses of Pinot Grigio for a filling delicious dinner.

We talked a bit after dinner and Willy left around 8:30. 

We watched an episode of Eva Longoria discovering Bordeaux and I ate three squares of milk chocolate and Suzette drank another glass of Pinot Grigio and we went to bed shortly after the episode ended around 9:30.

Bon appetit 

May 16, 2026 Brunch - Mushroom, Avocado, and Shallot Omelet Snack - Leftover pasta, mushroom, and Dinner at Nancy and Cliff’s Watermelon, Arugula, and feta salad, Chicken Marbella and rice Pilar

May 16, 2026 Brunch - Mushroom, Avocado, and Shallot Omelet Snack - Leftover pasta, mushroom, and Dinner at Nancy and Cliff’s Watermelon, Arugula, and feta salad, Chicken Marbella and rice Pilar

I woke up around 8:30.

I watched Man City win the FA Championship, which is an all England team competition over Chelsea with a nifty behind the back re-direction by Semenyo of a Haaland pass. The FA Cup determines which English teams compete for the European EUFA championship and it appears that five English teams will compete next year based upon the PL’s high performance this year.

After the FA final at 10:30 I sliced lobster, orange oyster, and portobello mushrooms, two cloves of garlic, and a shallot for an omelet. I added butter and sautéed those ingredients in the remaining peanut  and sesame oil in the skillet I used last night to sauté the pot stickers. After I sautéed the ingredients I had chopped I added four whisked eggs and then garnished one side with avocado slices Suzette prepped. I lay the other side with slices of Manchego cheese.

This was the kind of dense ingredient filled delicious omelets my mother used to make .

When the edges began to turn up and began to brown I flipped one half onto the other and let it cook with the heat turned off while I toasted slices of baguette and brewed a cup of chai.

After we ate brunch I showered and dressed and walked to Park Plaza at 3:00 for an interview with Greg Gould for a project he has started to provide guidance by seniors to young people. I talked for about an hour about all the influences on my life and how they played out to try to explain that if you follow what you like to do and are good at you will develop a revenue source and wealth that will allow you to have a comfortable and healthy retirement. 

After the interview at 4:10 we rested an hour during which I ate the leftover pasta, chicken, and mushroom dish from several nights ago dinner.

Earlier Suzette had eaten slices of the pork loin she roasted several days ago with Mayo.

We then went to a terrific symphony performance by the NM Philharmonic of a Schumann violin concerto and Mahler’s 5th Symphony.

After the symphony we drove to Cliff and Nancy’s house for dinner around 8:30.

Nancy had prepared Chicken Marbella, chicken baked with prunes and green olives, a terrific rice pilaf with sliced almonds, and a lovely light watermelon, arugula, and feta cheese salad. It was a terrific dinner. I loved every dish.

It was served with glasses of King’s Estate Pinot Gris, one of my favorite wines. 

Then for dessert Nancy served a slice of fresh raspberry tart. Then for shell was made with almond flour and was delicious. Then for custard filling was fabulous and the fresh raspberries were lovely. It was one day old so the crust had moistened, which made it even more subtle and infused with flavor. I do not think i have had a better unglazed fresh fruit tart.

At 10:00 we bid them goodnight and went home and went to bed.

Bon Appetit

May 15, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - Costco Hot Dog. Dinner - Fried Pot Stickers Salad

May 15, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - Costco Hot Dog. Dinner - Fried Pot Stickers Salad

When I woke up at 4:20 I saw Trump fumble through some tough questions on Air Force One on its way back to Washington and realized it would be a devastating day.  With no agreement with China to open the straits of Hormuz and Trump seemingly willing to carry on the war indefinitely, the market acted predictably. Crude went up $3.00 and the Dow fell 537 points and the NASDAQ fell 410 and the 10 year treasury bill went above 4.5% for the first time in years.

I slept from 5:30 to 8:15. When I woke up I watched the news until 9:00 and then ate a bowl of granola at my desk and opened a Rupeeflo account on my phone.

At 1:00 I drove to Costco to pick up a prescription and eat a hot dog for lunch, my first since discharge from the hospital. Suzette was shocked that I had gone off my low sodium diet. I was delighted, although they were out of diced onions.

At 2:15 I drove to Shahin’s and met with him and Sharief to finish the probate.

Then at 4:00 I drove home and rested until asuzette arrived. 

After her cocktail we considered ordering a pizza until we heard that it would cost $30.00.

Suzette decided that I should cook pot stickers and she would make a salad from the fresh lettuce in the garden plus some Napa cabbage, some grated radish, and avocados chunks.

I sautéed a dozen frozen pot stickers in peanut and sesame oil until golden brown and made a soy, mirin, sake and green onion dipping sauce rhat we used as our salad dressing and for dipping the pot stickers.

Suzette went to the garden and picked a basket of lettuce.

The fresh salad made with lettuce from our was delightful and the combination of warm dumplings with the salad made a lovely dinner with a glass of Carlsberg green.

After dinner we lay in bed and watched a lovely Netflix Swedish movie about a Swedish woman who moves to Provence and comes alive to a new more fulfilling life.  It was very life and love affirming. Exactly what we wanted to help relax after a long activity filled week.

Suzette went to bed at 9:30.

I got up and blogged and read at 10:30 with a cup of chai.

Bon Appetit

May 14, 2026. Breakfast - Gravad Lax Omelet with goat cheese, potatoes, Ted onion, and fresh dill. Lunch - Leftover Pasta with Mushrooms and Chicken Dinner - Mapo Dofu with Rice

 May 14, 2026. Breakfast - Gravad Lax Omelet with goat cheese, potatoes, Ted onion, and fresh dill. Lunch - Leftover Pasta with Mushrooms and Chicken Dinner - Mapo Dofu with Rice

I did not sleep well last night, but at 4:30 a.m. got to watch the toasts at the banquet and first meeting of Xi and Trump, which were both craven adulation by Trump of Xi like a supplicant rather than a meeting of equals. I felt like I could have been looking at Trump and Putin. I felt there was something terribly wrong with Trump.

I then rested for an hour or two and then I watched the market open up again. I guess I was worried about the surgery set for 1:00 to remove my dialysis catheter.

At 7:30 I made a good breakfast, a Gravad lax, potato, red onion, and fresh dill omelet with toasted slices of baguette and a cup of tea.

Then at 9:00 I went back to sleep and slept until 10:50, when I got dressed. Suzette came home at 11:20 and we drove to Renal Medicine Associates at 12:00 for the removal of the dialysis catheter. I t was a simple operation but Suzette attending made me much less anxious.

Then at 1:00 Suzette drove us home and heated the leftover Pasta, Mushrooms, and Chicken dish left from last nightl I then checked my portfolio and discovered that it had another monster day thanks to Nvidia closing up $9.91, in part due the the U.S. approving the sale of Nvidia’s TH 200 chips to 10 Chinese companies.

So I had two wonderful bits of news today. The first was the doctor who removed the catheter confirming that starting dialysis probably saved my life and the second was my portfolio reaching another milepost. From April 7 to today it increased an amazing 23%. That is an annualized rate of over 230%. I have been waiting for the bubble to burst, but it has not yet. 

Dinner - We decided to make Mapo Dofu for dinner, so at 6:00 I started.

I cubed a small eggplant and two small Mexican squash. I then minced two small cloves of garlic from our garden and about 1 1/2 T. of ginger root and 1 Vidalia onion. Then I cubed four portobello, a shiitake and two lobster mushrooms and about 3 oz. of fresh wood ear. Then I cubed 2/3 of a pork tenderloin and finally a 14 oz. block of firm tofu.

Willy arrived around 7:00 as I  stir fried the onion, garlic and ginger in the large 18 inch wok and added sequentially the eggplant and squash, the cubed pork with a heaping tsp. of garlic chilli sauce, then 14 oz. of tofu cubed with enough water to cover the ingredients so they would stew. I forgot to add the mushrooms, so after about 30 to 45 minutes I added the sliced mushrooms and wood ear before the tofu so I added the mushrooms and wood ear and stewed the dish another fifteen minutes to cook the mushrooms. While the ingredients stewed I combined I tsp. of soy sauce, with 1 tsp  sesame oil, 1 T. of mirin, 2 T. of sake and 1 1/2 T. of cornstarch and whisked those ingredients to make a seasoning sauce.

I also separated the seeds from the husks of about 1/2 T.of Szechuan peppercorns with Willy’s help and thinly sliced four green onions for the garnish.

When the ingredients had stewed about an hour I added the seasoning sauce to thicken the stew and Suzette re-heated some PPI rice cooked with seaweed and Willy selected, opened and poured glasses of Vara Grenache red wine for him and Suzette. I drank water.

Willy left a little later and we watched an old episode of Midsummer  Murders. Suzette went to bed after it at 9:30 and I stayed up until 11:25 to watch an episode of George Gentley. Coincidentally, in both episodes the killer turned out to be a child.

I the blogged and went to bed.

Bon Appetit 

May 13, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Mary and Tito’s Dinner - Sautéed Salmon with Sautéed Roasted Potatoes and Snow Peas

May 13, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Mary and Tito’s Dinner - Sautéed Salmon with Sautéed Roasted Potatoes and Snow Peas

I got up around 6:15.  I watched the market dip and then recover for the NASDAQ to end up over 314 points and for my portfolio to increase by 1%.

At 10:00 I ate a pain au chocolate with a latte macchiato.

I made one more step toward dematerialization today. I received acknowledgment of acceptance by ICICI Direct of my application.

At Noon Henry arrived for lunch and I drove us to Mary and Tito’s. Henry ordered Chichirones, beans,  and red chili. I ordered a taco plate with two tacos, refried beans, and  lettuce and tomato garnish. I love the food at Mary and Tito’s but the fresh flowers on each table are fabulous.

We ate until 1:30. When I returned home I worked until 4:00 and napped until 4:45 when Suzette came home.  Then we ate som pistachios and then at 5:30 I drove to El Super and bought avocados, limes, lemons, oranges, cilantro, red and brown onions, a butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, Mexican squash, green onions, an eggplant, tomatoes, and Fuji apples.

Dinner - 

When I returned home at 6:45  Suzette helped unload the groceries. Suzette thawed two salmon filets and we snapped a pile of snow, peas.

Then Suzette blanched the snow peas and re-heated PPI roasted diced potatoes and leeks and then tossed the snow peas with the potatoes. She sautéed the salmon fillets and I poured glasses of Chablis Premier cru.

After dinner we watched Trump’s arrival in Beijing and sipped a limoncello with a lemon cookie.

Suzette went to bed at 9:00. I stayed up to watch the WNBA game between LA and Indiana Fever.

Bon Appetit