homecooking special

1-17-2011 Mon. cold, cloudy.


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | homemade Focaccia bread | goat cheese | apple
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea | sweet rice snack
DINNER --- Focaccia bread | spicy minced chicken with Thai basil | Tong-hao porridge with crushed peanuts | rice | wine

Focaccia

• ten more hours fermentation improved the texture and flavor of the focaccia.
  

food blog two hundreds ago

• in a second hand book store found an old book by Zhen Ban Qiao ( 郑板桥）a Chinese poet/painter in the 18th century. He wrote poems to record daily life, such as an entry on this page: a simple meal at Ms. Lee's house, older son chopping the fresh meat from market, younger son collecting dried branches to make a tender fire, fresh beans from the garden, the wonderful smell spreading beyond the bamboo fence...