March 28, 2026 Breakfast - Chai and Pain au Chocolate Snack - Egg Drop Soup. Lunch - Chicken Curry with Rice. Dinner - Smoked Trout with Rice and Sautéed Trout Skin

March 28,  2026 Breakfast  - Chai and Pain au Chocolate Snack - Egg Drop Soup. Lunch - Chicken Curry with Rice. Dinner - Smoked Trout with Rice and Sautéed Trout Skin

I awakened at 6:30 and drank a chai with a pain au chocolate.

Then I prepared chicken curry for lunch. I first boiled the six chicken thighs I bought yesterday with a mirepoix . While the chicken boiled for 1 1/2 hours I peeled and diced and sautéed a sweet potato, 1 1/2 red onions, and minced four cloves of garlic in a casserole in canola oil.  Then I deboned the chicken and added 1/2 of it to the curry, plus a handful of raisins, and about a T. of curry powder and added enough of the chicken broth to cover the ingredients and then added one apple diced, and minced garlic chives and fennel from our garden at around 10:00 and simmered the entire mixture for another two hours.

I then heated the remaining chicken broth and mirepoix and added two whisked eggs to make a large bowl of egg drop soup as a snack.

I also covered the thigh bones with water and simmered the pot for several hours to make another stock, this time with minced garlic chives and parsley from our garden.

Suzette returned around 1:00 and I used two cups of the new broth and two cups of water to cook two cups of rice.

Around 2:00 Suzette and I ate curry with rice and the lovely apricot chutney she made last year with apricots and salty lime pickle.

Willy came over and ate some curry and we watched Belgium beat the US men’s team in soccer and the Texas women basketball team crush Kentucky.

Aaron, Monica, and Alexi visited at 3:00 for and hour and then we drove to Costco where we bought mussels, trout, mushrooms, red and green grapes, unsalted pistachios and butter, and Greek yogurt.

The trout were big and cheap at $2.99 but the mussels were all cracked and dead and had to be thrown out.

Suzette stuffed the stomach cavity of the trout with garlic chives, lemon thyme and butter and smoked them to perfection. 

I watched TCU women win their sweet 16 match against Virginia, so I was happy.

The creative thing that Suzette then did was sauté the trout skin in olive oil and then we mixed the crisp skin with rice and garnished the rice mixture with a piece of warm smoked trout for a new very very Japanese dish.

After dinner we watched Bill Maher and Have I got News for You and went to bed at 10:00 after an evening of comic relief from the oppressive news of the day punctuated with the glimmer of hope from seeing millions of Americans demonstrating and marching against Trump’s autocratic rule and war in Iran in the third No Kings rally.

Bon Appetit