Russian soup and bread

9-16-2012 Sun. warm, clouds.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and jam | Gouda cheese | grapes 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  simmered fresh peanuts in shell with Chinese spiced rice wine DINNER --- borscht ( beef, beets, tomato, potatoes, cabbage, onion, carrots, and herbs) | Russian black bread | stir-fried bitter melon | rice | fennel and cherry tomato salad | wine 

fresh peanuts

 Borscht and black bread

in garden today

 

• several hours spent on the bloody Russian stew soup, which turned out pretty well. 
• fresh peanuts in shell are rare find. slow-simmered peanuts in spiced wine is a Shanghai style snack food for drinking.
• some  garden work, see the fall coming