tagine

3-31-2017 Fri.  


 DINNER --- ( at C. Club )  dates, nuts, chips and dip | chickpea soup | grapefruit salad | tagine chicken | saffron rice

• Lara's take on Moroccan cuisine  

vegetables all the way

3-30-2017 Thu.  


DINNER --- sauteed  Chinese greens | vegetable soup 

 

• ballet food

pastrami sandwich

3-29-2017 Wed.  


 LUNCH --- ( at G. Joe with Jan) pastrami sandwich | twisty fries 
 DINNER --- tong-hao porridge with crushed peanuts | sweet & sour lotus root | rice | wine

•  no more drinking for Jan

vegetable soup

3-28-2017 Tue.  


  DINNER --- vegetable soup: tomato, green gourd, beech mushroom, okra and wood-ear

•  Tuesday routine of ballet soup 

scalloped potato

3-27-2017 Mon. 


 DINNER --- cast iron pan-fried scalloped potato with sliced onion | sauteed spinach | steamed Brussels sprouts | wine 

 

•  nice browned potato

bronzino

3-26-2017 Sun.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and cheese | fruit 
DINNER --- baked whole bronzino with ginger and lemon | sauteed asparagus | steamed minced chicken and egg | rice | wine

•  baking the whole fish in enclosed foil, timing has to be just right, often need  several 1 minute increments

international food

3-25-2017 Sat. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | bread and cheese | fruit
DINNER--- Daikon salad | mussels in white wine broth | sauteed mustard green | bread | wine

•  French country style bread , Spanish cheese, Canadian mussels, Japanese daikon, Chinese mustard green 

huevos rancheros in evening

3-24-2017 Fri.  



 DINNER --- huovers ranchios : fried black beans, homemade flat bread, salsa, Mexican rice , fried egg | wine

•  a good meal 

soup night

3-23-2017 Thu.  


DINNER --- vegetable soup | pasta with roasted red pepper sauce 

•  ballet and chamber group

steam, sautee and stir-fry

3-22-2017 Wed.  


  DINNER --- sauteed long beans | steamed egg with dried shrimp | stir-fried tofu, wood-ear and silk gourd | rice 

•  a Chinese food collection 

pearl barley soup

3-21-2017 Tue.  


 DINNER ---barley vegetable soup 

•  slightly thicker than usual vegetable soup, the broth is very good after a couple of hours of simmering: wood-ear, winter bamboo shoot, shan-yao, carrot, lotus root, okra and last minute pea leaves

green gourd and green leaves

3-20-2017 Mon.  


 DINNER --- Chinese green gourd and pea leaves soup | steamed dumplings with bok choy filling

•  happy to handle ingredients in green 

Spanish pizza and whole fish

3-19-2017 Sun.  



WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee  | bread and cheese | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
 DINNER --- homemade Spanish flat bread with topping ( olive, anchovy, roasted red pepper, onion and cheese ) | pan-fried whole promfret with ginger scallion tomato sauce | wine

• from Jose Andreas' influence

clean cut

3-18-2017 Sat.  



 WEEKEND-BREAKFAST --- bread and cheese | coffee | grapefruit | apple 
 PRE-CONCERT-DINNER --- broiled lamb chop | sauteed mustard green | wine 

•  news of cut, not only on lamb chop 
• a concert of impressionism

Japanese night

3-17-2017 Fri.  


DINNER --- goyza | sushi  ( yellow tail, mackerel, tuna, sweet shrimp, salmon skin roll ) | baked Japanese sweet potato fries | wine 

•   a treat 

barley vegetable soup

3-16-2017 Thu.  


 DINNER --- vegetable and barley soup: daikon, Chinese yam, carrot, wood-ear, lotus root 

•   barley for  ballet

lotus root and long beans

3-15-2017 Wed.  


 DINNER --- pan-fried lotus root | sauteed Chinese long beans | rice 

•  very simple and lean

before Woolf Works

3-14-2017 Tue. snow 


DINNER ---  homemade bread | sauteed bitter melon | long simmered daikon and kombu | Turkish rice with clams | wine 

•  a faded snow-in day. Woolf Works ballet in theater. 

no-knead bread

3-13-2017 Mon. 



 DINNER --- homemade no-knead country style bread | pan-fried scalloped potato | pan-fried Brussels sprouts | wine 

 

• a good loaf of bread 

mix of winter and early spring

3-12-2017 Sun.  cold 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and cheese | fruit 
 AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
 DINNER --- shor rib soup with winter vegetables | steamed artichoke | fried rice with canton sausage, winter bamboo shoot, onion, smoked tofu and lightly pickled mustard green | wine 

•  temperature goes down like winter, though some spring vegetables start to show up.  

can't believe we ate the whole thing

3-11-2017 Sat. cold



WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and cheese | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
BEFORE-CONCERT-DINNER --- two pounds of fresh water shrimp, cocktail style with ginger vinegar dip 
AFTER-CONCERT-DINNER ---short rib soup with daikon, carrot , ginger and wood-ear | steamed short ribs |  sauteed fresh English peas with smoked tofu | rice | wine 

 

• catch them when you can, fresh shrimp and fresh peas.
 

• Stochastic Chamber Ensemble: Prokofiev and Beethoven