MY CUISINE AT 15 CRAIGSIDE

The UK went a different way on vaccinations. They chose to inoculate as many people as possible rather than first immunize an individual with both shots, as the U.S. is doing for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. The point is that you do gain, perhaps, 10 points in protection with both shots. However, even one makes a big difference in affecting the community, and, further, this delay for the second injection seems to be essentially okay. The graphic to the right from the New York Times.

By now anyone who regularly reads this blog knows that I live in a seniors' community called 15 Craigside. Today, I will clear my desktop by transferring these food photos into this posting.

On Wednesday I had an international St. Pat's meal. My green life began the day by walking on the Ala Wai Golf Course. Did well, and my pulse rate remained below 100 pulses/minute because a group ahead of us played reasonably slowly. I might mention that I've seen hundreds of pigeons over the years, and, amazingly enough, saw my first Blue-bar Pigeon on this course.

On my way home I dropped by Fujioka's and asked, what is the best Irish alcoholic beverage. Without hesitation, he said Redbreast. Surely enough, this source picked Redbreast as #1 overall. Nowhere on the list was Jameson or Bushmills. The price for the 12 year old single pot still Irish whiskey ranged from less than $50 in Maine to $80 in Florida. I paid $67. For three times the cost of a Jameson, I question the cost, or, more probably, can't appreciate the superiority. I also picked up a Baileys Irish Cream from Dublin. This is reported to be the original Irish cream, invented by Gilbeys in 1971.

I had the BIC over ice when I took a green bath:

As I just had a corned beef and cabbage dinner to prepare for St. Pat's Day, I prepared an international meal of American steak and Japanese chutoro sashimi / shiitake mushrooms, and added some green mint jelly and sliced truffles:

The wine, Redbreast, beer and St. Patrick international cuisine:

Another day I had the following, beginning with breakfast, a Korean seaweed soup lunch and assorted Oriental dishes for dinner, with the rest of the most popular drink in the world, Jinro Soju :

With a Stanford Chardonnay, I had prosciutto, foie gras pate', blue cheese croissant, ham and a fancy salad of endive, radicchio, sea asparagus, avocado and sweet onion:

At an upscale Safeway located on Beretania Avenue, I saw this display of American Wagyu Beef. So I picked up a piece and had it with some hirame sashimi:

Different from the Japanese version, okay, but not the same. Of course, the U.S. wagyu costs one-fourth the Japanese cut.

Then I actually built a meal around boiled peanuts supplied by a friend, rest of the foie gras pate', salad and croissant, accompanied by a Pence Chardonnay and beer:

Soba and sashimi:

Two noodles lunch:

Finally, a luau for dinner last night. I made my own poke using blue-fin tuna cut in the shape of sashimi as opposed to those cubes, and adding the poke mix (seaweed, kukui nut, also known as candlenut, and salt), kazunoko (salted herring eggs), onions, sea asparagus and chili water:

I also enhanced the lomi-salmon:

My Hawaiian feast with lau lau, chicken longrice, lomi, poke, rice and various drinks:

I'm afraid I gained a couple of pounds this week. Here is the current state of my blooming Honohono Orchids.

A NEXT COVID SUBVARIANT?

By now most know that the Omicron BA.5 subvariant has become the dominant infectious agent, now accounting for more than 80% of all COVID-19 cases. Very few are aware that a new one, BA.4.6, is sneaking in and steadily rising, now accounting for 13% of sequenced samples . However, as BA.4.6 has emerged from BA.4, while there is uncertainty, the scientific sense is that the latest bivalent booster targeting BA.4 and BA.5 should also be effective for this next threat. One concern is that Evusheld--the only monoclonal antibody authorized for COVID prevention in immunocompromised individuals--is not effective against BA.4.6. Here is a reference as to what this means. A series of two injections is involved. Evusheld was developed by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, and is a t ixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab . More recently, Los Angeles County reported on subvariant BA.2.75.2 . which Tony Fauci termed suspicious and troublesome. This strain has also been spreading in

Part 3: OUR NEXT AROUND THE WORLD ODYSSEY

Before I get into my third, and final, part of this cruise series, let me start with some more newsworthy topics. Thursday was my pandemic day for years. Thus, every so often I return to bring you up to date on the latest developments. All these subvariants derived from that Omicron variant, and each quickly became dominant, with slightly different symptoms. One of these will shock you. There has been a significant decline in the lost of taste and smell. From two-thirds of early patients to now only 10-20% show these symptoms. JN.1, now the dominant subvariant, results in mostly mild symptoms. However, once JN.1 infects some, there seem to be longer-lasting symptoms. Clearly, the latest booster helps prevent contracting Covid. A competing subvariant, BA.2.86, also known as Pirola , a month ago made a run, but JN.1 prevailed. No variant in particular, but research has shown that some of you will begin to lose hair for several months. This is caused by stress more than anythi

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These are held every five years, and there have only been

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