Friday, December 10, 2010

joy cooking club

12-10-2010 Fri. a tiny of snow

BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- apple
AFTERNOON-TEATIME
--- tea and dried fruit

DINNER
--- ( a dinner for the cooking group) sparkling wine with pomegranate juice | seaweed seasoned fried dough twists | adamame | baked Japanese sweet potato | Japanese style broiled chicken ball skewers with ginkgo seeds || winter bamboo shoots simmered in bonito broth and marinated with white miso | beach mushroom confit ( in thyme olive oil) | roasted piquillo peppers stuffed with smoked tofu, fennel, and crushed peanuts | threaded cuttlefish simmered and marinated in sweet soy and rice wine | wonton soup with tong-hao leaves, fried tofu and mushroom | white miso marinated and grilled cod | Japanese rice ball | lightly pickled radish | white wine || sweet fermented rice soup with tiny sticky rice dumplings and "silver ear" | almond crisps |

bonito, kombu, winter bamboo shoots, heavenly bamboo berries


Japanese style finger food


shoots and leaves


mushroom confit, piquillo, cuttlefish

wonton soup


white miso grilled cod


sweet fermented rice porridge



  • little bit of many things, a lot of preparation work, a fun dinner