July 29, 2025 Lunch - Crazy Fish Dinner - Duck Salad

July 29, 2025 Lunch - Crazy Fish  Dinner - Duck Salad 

I worked this morning on my pleading. I ate Granola with milk, mango yogurt, and blueberries.

Then at 12:30 when Suzette returned we drove to Crazy Fish to start our cuisine training for Japan. Suzette ordered BBQ’d Unagi (freshwater eel) with seaweed salad. The dish also comes with a bowl is steamed mixed vegetables, so a lot of food.  We decided that I should order chirashi and share our two dishes but it turned out to be too much food, but three boxes of leftovers for future lunches. The grilled unagi was rich, fatty, and delicious. There was an interesting piece of fish on my chirashi that was full if sinews but very delicious. There were two slices each of five fish, salmon, white tuna, Aji tuna, hamachi and the mystery fish plus squid salad with pickled burdock root and seaweed salad on a bed of sushi rice in a ceramic bowl. 

After lunch we gave the sushi chef a tip and Suzette thanked him in Japanese and then drove home and Suzette went to an appointment.

I watched the market close and found out the my portfolio decreased 93%. I do not know what made the market reverse from positive in the morning to a negative close, but when I went to bed the futures were up.

 I meditated from 3:15 to 3:45 and then worked on a project until 5:00.

I started watching the news at 5:00 and Suzette joined me.  At 6:00 we started making dinner. 

I went to the garden and picked a basket of lettuce and rinsed it and spun it and put the lettuce into the fridge to crisp.

Then I made a duck salad for our dinner. I sliced two radishes, hard boiled 4 eggs, cubed a large Roma tomato, sliced two slices of red onion amend minced it, peeled, seeded, and sliced 1/3 cucumber, and cut the duck wing and breast into cubes and seared  them in a skillet.

I added red wine vinegar and olive plus a dash of salt and white pepper to the leftover Dijonnaise dressing I made yesterday.

Then we assembled our salads. We put lettuce into a pasta bowl and I added to each bowl tomato cubes, croutons, and sliced cucumbers, a hard boiled egg, several slices of goat brie, red onion, and radishes. I added the warmed duck pieces and we each dressed our salads.

The salads were ready at 7:00, so we watched Finding Your Roots while we ate and after we ate then we watched two episodes of House Hunters International, one in Lincoln, England and the other in Queenstown, New Zealand. And went to bed at 9:00. We practiced Japanese for about 15 minutes and then Suzette went to sleep and I blogged.

The Japanese lunch was a splurge calorie wise but totally worth it. Suzette went to the nutritionist in the afternoon and he told she needed to eat more protein, which she did today with the massive seafood lunch.

Bon Appetit