March 7, 2023 Lunch - Miso Noodle Soup. Dinner - BBQ Shrimp with Green rice and Salad

March 7, 2023 Lunch - Miso Noodle Soup. Dinner - BBQ Shrimp with Green rice and Salad

I woke up early and started drafting the response to a pleading  at 6:30.

Then at 9:00 I ate Suzette’ leftover bagel with Boursin and lax plus two small toasted baguette slices spread with butter and orange marmalade for breakfast.  I then worked on the response until noon.

There was no PPI to eat so I decided to make miso soup.  I heated 1 1/2 quarts of water and added 1 tsp. of dehydrated dashi, plus three fish balls, two sliced mushrooms, three stalks of asparagus sliced into 3/4 inch sections, and a handful of rice sticks.  I cooked this for about 20 minutes and then added 4 oz. of firm tofu and 1 heaping T. of red miso.  I sliced the fish balls and returned them to the soup and sliced two green onions into thin ringlets.

The result was delicious and filling.

Suzette came home at 3:30 and we went to the bank to deposit a check.

When we returned home I watched Ari Melber and then at 5:00 made rice for dinner.  I added dehydrated chicken stock to 2 cups of water and chopped about 1/4 cup of fresh parsley and added it to the pot with a cup of rice when the water came to a boil.  I then reduced the heat and simmered the rice for 30 minutes.

Suzette then started prepping the BBQ shrimp using the Paul Prudhomme recipe from Louisiana Kitchen cookbook.

Mike arrived at 6:30 with a beautifully arranged salad.  I made a salad dressing with 1/2 tsp. of prepared mustard, 1/4 tsp. salt, about 1/2 T. of balsamic vinegar, and 1/4 cup of lavender olive oil.  The result was a creamy Dijonaise dressing.

We gathered romaine lettuce, gourmet greens, spinach, shredded carrots, radish slices, tomato slices, onto our salad plate and drizzled dressing on the salad and ate salad while the shrimp were cooking in a covered enamel Le Creuset casserole.

After salad Suzette served pasta bowls filled with green rice and BBQ Shrimp.

The reason we cooked this dish was because we found large heads on shrimp at Costco for $5.99/lb. on Sunday.  Eight to 10 filled the pasta bowl.

After dinner we watched an episode of the Swedish TV production of Anxious People with English subtitles and sipped Maison Serrene 

Cognac and ate Swedish hazelnut and milk chocolate squares.

At 9:00 we bid Mike goodnight and Suzette went to bed.

I stayed up until midnight watching the news.  MSNBC has started identifying misleading and false narratives by politicians and Fox News as dangerous, which seems appropriate.

Fox News is also in disarray due to the release of emails and deposition testimony in the Dominion voting machine case against Fox that show many people at Fox including Murdoch knew Trump had lost the 2020 election, but allowed Sidney Powell and others airtime to lie to their viewers that the election was rigged by Dominion’s voting machines with no credible evidence.

It is hard to imagine a clearer case for slander and a verdict for Dominion could put Fox out of business because the verdict with punitive damages could exceed $3 billion dollars.

This could just be the beginning of a wave of lawsuits. I think the DC Court of appeals has ruled that Trump’s inciting the crowd to March on the Capitol was not protected speech for which he can claim executive immunity because inciting a riot was outside of the scope of his duties as President.

If that standard is applied to other Trump supporters who spread the big lie or participated in the attempted insurrection on January 6th. It could lead to years of litigation and expulsion of many complicit politicians from office.

Bon Appetit