April 16, 2026 Breakfast - Granola and Blueberries, Lunch - Crazy Fish Dinner - Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna Alfredo

April 16, 2026 Breakfast - Granola and Blueberries, Lunch - Crazy Fish   Dinner - Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna Alfredo

I slept until after 7:30.

I then ate a bowl of granola, yogurt, milk, and blueberries.  

I met Suzette at Crazy Fish for lunch at noon. I ordered Chirashi, green tea, and fresh wasabi. Suzette ordered an unagi bowl that is grilled unagi on rice with a bowl of steamed vegetables. My fish were salmon, yellow tail, ahi tuna, albacore tuna, white tuna, with seaweed salad and squid and burdock salad.

I ate 1/2 and boxed the rest for later.

Then I returned home and checked the market and the NASDAQ was up 86 points and my portfolio increased .3% to a new high.

If the NASDAQ finishes up tomorrow it will have gained for twelve days in a row, a record it has not occurred since 2009.

Then at 3:30 i meditated until 4:00 and then watched Ari. At 5:00 I walked around the block that l3 to a total of over 2800 steps today.

Dinner - At 6:30 we started preparing lasagna for dinner.

I sliced a leek, five cloves of garlic, about a lb. of baby portobello mushroom, about 1/4 lb. of Lion’s Mane mushrooms and destemmed a bunch of spinach.

Suzette soaked a box of lasagna noodles and sautéed the leeks and then the mushrooms and made a thick Mornay sauce with the tallegio and Racalette cheese. We then assembled the lasagna with liberal amounts of Italian olive oil on each layer with pasta on the bottom, then leeks and spinach and sauce, then pasta and mushrooms, mozzarella, olive oil, and sauce, and finally pasta and mozzarella. We baked the lasagna in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes until the top turned golden brown and the sides all bubbled.

It was really delicious and reminded us of the fabulous cheese lasagna we ate in Intra, Italy on Lake Maggiore twenty years ago with Debbie and Greg.

We then watched Midsomer Murders and I watched George Gently, another grittier English Police mystery.

I went to bed at 11:00.

Bon Appetit

April 14, 2026 Breakfast - Gravad Lax and Bagel. Lunch - Mary and Tito’s with Alan Dinner - Fresh and Green Peas with Pasta

 

April 14, 2026 Breakfast - Gravad Lax and Bagel. Lunch - Mary and Tito’s with Alan  Dinner - Fresh and Green Peas with Pasta

I awakened at 7:00 and watched the Market open up until 8:15.

I ate the leftover bagel and Gravad lax sandwiches from yesterday for breakfast.

At 11:30 I met Alan at Mary and Tito’s for lunch. He ordered a breakfast burrito  with eggs. I ordered blue corn enchiladas with double beans, extra onions, and red chili. Alan ate all of his burrito but I was able to eat only 1/3 of my enchiladas because they were very rich.

                                                               Alan’s burrito

                                              My beef enchiladas with double beans

After lunch I returned home and began transcribing the book club’s discussion at our last meeting.

Then at 2:30 Frank came and I drafted a letter for him. At 3:00 the Xfinity technician came and installed a wireless fiber optic main box for our living room TV that got the bedroom working and even got the sound on the TV room TV back on. 

I then checked the Market and I discovered that it was a great day in the market with my portfolio increasing by over 1.9% to its second highest finish ever. Tomorrow might be the day it reaches a new all time high.

At 4:00 I watched Ari when Suzette arrived from work.

We checked the garden and discussed dinner. Suzette wanted to make the fresh and green peas with pasta again. This time we used the thickened leftover Mornay sauce made with Racalette last night. We de-stemmed several sugar snap peas, snow peas, and I grated about 1/2 of Parmesan cheese. Then Suzette went to the garden and picked a basket full of fresh mint and several pea shoots. I minced the fresh mint.

Suzette reheated the Mornay sauce in a pot until it flowed smoothly and i added about 1/4 white pepper and grated fresh nutmeg to the sauce.

Suzette microwaved the leftover orecchiette pasta and, separately, the snow peas, frozen English peas, and sugar snap peas she had cut in half lengthwise.

She then assembled the dish. She filled pasta bowls with a goodly puddle of Mornay sauce. Then she laid a pile of pasta she had tossed with the fresh mint.  Then she dusted the pasta with the shredded Parmesan cheese and finally garnished the dishes with the peas and laid a pea shoot on top.

This rendition of the dish was better in two respects, separating the sauce and seasoning improved its flavor and Separating the sauce from the pasta gave the dish a cleaner presentation, especially of the peas.

After dinner we watched Finding Your Roots and went to bed.

Bon Appetit

April 15, 2026 Breakfast - Enchilada, beans, and egg, Lunch - Grits and Spaghetti Sauce. Snack - Grits and Spaghetti Sauce. Dinner - Sautéed Salmon Filet with cooked Diced Asparagus tossed with Parmesan cheese and Bistro Mashed Potatoes

April 15, 2026 Breakfast - Enchilada, beans, and egg,  Lunch - Grits and Spaghetti Sauce. Snack - Grits and Spaghetti Sauce. Dinner - Sautéed Salmon Filet with cooked Diced Asparagus tossed with Parmesan cheese and Bistro Mashed Potatoes

Today was exceptional in several respects. The market and my portfolio made new highs today, I met with Dr. Adi who ended my dialysis for now, and I walked over 4100 steps for a new record.

I was busy most of the day. I woke up at 7:15 and watched the news until 8:00 when I fixed a quick breakfast. I heated about 1/2 of the 2/3 of the enchiladas and beans from yesterday’s lunch at Mary and Tito’s and added a fried egg and a toasted blue corn tortilla.

Then I drove to Sandia Dental for a teeth cleaning at 9:30 and then drove to El Super to shop for produce. I bought lemons, sweet limes, Fuji Apples, a pineapple, a papaya, three mangoes, four oranges, cilantro, green beans, mango yogurt, zucchini, two eggplants, a yellow bell pepper, brown onions, red onions, five Roma tomatoes, a bunch of leeks, chicken leg quarters, boneless pork ribs, green onions, and three large avocados.

I then drove home and unloaded the car and heated a plate of grits cohered with my meat and mushroom spaghetti sauce. It was almost 12:30 when I started eating so put most of the dish in the fridge after a few bites and drove to dialysis to arrive by 1:00.

Dr. Adi reviewed my charts and took me off dialysis for now and prescribed several new medicines to help strengthen my kidneys.

Here I am next to a dialyses machine.

At around 2:00 I drove to Costco to pick up my new meds and waited until 3:00 to pick them up.

I also bought a box of delightful Danish cookies with a lemon filling.

When I arrived at home I unloaded the rest of the groceries and checked the market. It was another huge day for the NASDAQ that rode to a new all time high by notching an additional 377 points.

My portfolio rose another 1.1% to a new high.  

I ate the rest of the uneaten grits and spaghetti sauce as a snack at 3:30

Then I lay down at 4:00 to watch Ari until Suzette arrived around 5:00.

I diced the ingredients for ratatouille, a gold bell pepper, an eggplant, 1 1/2 onions, four cloves of garlic minced, a cup of fresh oregano minced, two zucchini diced, and two cans of diced tomatoes.

After I filled the large casserole Suzette took over the cooking and7:00  added olive,oil and cooked the ratatouille over low heat from about 5:45 until 7:45.

Dinner - We also cooked dinner. I fetched the leftover Bistro mashed Potatoes from the garage. Willy came over around 7:00 and fetched the asparagus from the garage. Suzette diced about a dozen stalks of asparagus and cooked them with grated Parmesan cheese and some herbs de Provence.

We thawed three salmon filet last night and garnished them with herbs debProvence, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Suzette then sautéed the salmon filets and served each with asparagus and mashed potatoes and a wedge of lemon.

Willy and I went to the garage and fetched a bottle of Red Newt dry Riesling that was really delicious and paired nicely with the sautéed salmon.

Willy left around 8:00 and we went to bed around 8:30, I to blog and Suzette to sleep.

Bon Appetit

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