Saturday, January 9, 2010

Breads, baked or steamed?

1-9-2010 Sat. very cold, sunny

WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | Swedish rye bread (Limpa) | raspberry jam | grape fruit
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- Wulong green tea | apple
DINNER --- sauteed Chinese chrysanthemum leaves (Tong-Ho) | baby octopus simmered and marinated in ginger dashi stock | steamed buns with fillings of chicken, shiitake, leek, and cabbage (Zheng-Bao) | red wine
WEEKEND DESSERT --- chocolate mousse cake | chai

  • In a cold day like this, it is nice to make bread from scratch. It takes four hours to prepare the rye dough and Limpa is baked in the oven. Zheng-bao are Chinese buns with fillings, it takes one and half hour to prepare the dough and the fillings, and the buns are steamed on stove.