January 20, 2024 Breakfast - Granola and Chocolate Croissant. Lunch - Pita pocket Sandwiches with lamb kebabs. Dinner - Pan Fried Trout with ears of corn and cucumber, radish, and sweet onion

January 20, 2024 Breakfast - Granola and Chocolate Croissant. Lunch - Pita pocket Sandwiches with lamb kebabs. Dinner - Pan Fried Trout with ears of corn and cucumber, radish, and sweet onion

This was another good day of food. Breakfast was the usual. Lunch was interesting and dinner was amazing.

I ate granola and a little later a chocolate croissant with a cup of green tea.

I then drafted a pour over will.

Then at 11:00 I ate two pita pocket sandwiches filled with lamb kebabs, tzatziki, feta cheese, and lettuce with a green onion.

I then took papers to get signed for the sale by a probate estate.

I stopped at Smith’s on the way home at 1:15 and bought a beautiful fresh 1 1/3 lb. Fresh Trout, a 2 lb. piece of salmon, and a 6 oz. Aji tuna steak plus 16 oz. of blueberries.

When I arrived home I was able to watch the last 30 minutes of the Chelsea v. Wolves fixture that Chelsea won 3 to 1, which put them in Fourth place in the PL.

At 3:00 after the fixture I walked around the block to get to 3700 steps for the day. 

Then I watched the news at 4:00 and at 5:15 tuned the TV to the  NCAA college national championship game between Ohio State and Notre Dame.

Dinner - At 5:30 we prepared dinner. I cut the head and tail off the trout and Suzette dusted it with flour seasoned with salt and pepper and pan fried it in olive oil.

 She also shucked the two ears of corn we bought at El Super and boiled them. I peeled, seeded, and sliced 1/3 cucumber, one slice of sweet onion, and four radishes and Suzette made a light dressing with a thimble full each of white grapefruit balsamic vinegar and Herbs de Provence olive oil.  

Suzette also made tartare sauce but the lemon juice she squeezed onto the warm trout filets after Suzette cooked the fish fully by cooking it for 2 minutes in the microwave was enough flavoring for me. The trout was more delicate and flavorful than the sole we ate at Le Torquet last Saturday night. It was an exceedingly fresh fish and relatively inexpensive at $6.99/lb.  I recommend trout when you can find it fresh.

The cucumber salad was also wonderful, with the pleasant tanginess of the radish slices. I ate forks filled with onion, radish and cucumber.

I opened a Palantir French Sauvignon Blanc for dinner that Suzette declared perfect for the fish (Trader Joe’s $7.00). Palantir is my favorite Sauvignon Blanc for the price.

After dinner we switched back and forth from the game to the Antiques Roadshow. 

Both were excellent but in the last 2:00 we watched Ohio State win the championship.

At 8:30 Suzette fell asleep in front of the fire.

I awakened her at 9:15 and we went to bed.

My take on today’s inauguration is as follows.

I fear for our democracy with Trump, who with the stroke of a pen undid several important foundations like the rule of law by pardoning all Jan. 6 Rioters convicted of crimes and ending birthright citizenship which was made part of the Constitution as a result of the Civil War to protect the citizenship of all persons born in the U.S. 

Besides his excellent showmanship and staging it seems we will have an accurate reading of his ability to govern in four years when we will be able to compare the economic success of his tenure in office before and after Biden’s.

I fear showmanship will not succeed in managing the government as well as management, especially if showmanship says everything is broken and its tries to rescind those management tools that exist now. It looks like we are on our way back to laissez Faire capitalism, in which the Robber Barons succeeded and the working class suffered.

As Senator and Reverend Warnock said last Sunday, “In America today it is better to be a criminal and rich than honest and poor.”

Bon Appetit