let them eat cake

9-30-2017 Sat. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and cheese | fruit
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- broiled lamb chop | new potatoes | sauteed greens | cake 

• eat the bake-off 

rice pot, Japanese way

9-29-2017 Fri. 


DINNER ---  rice cooked in stoneware pot, with charred leek, green onion, onion, smoked mussels, and shisho-pickled vegetables | baked Japanese sweet potato fries | pickled napa cabbage | wood-ear and vegetable soup 

• a different way to cook rice 

tofu skin stew

9-28-2017 Thu. 



 DINNER --- sauteed corn with roasted red peppers | stewed tofu skin and beans 

• surprisingly hearty 

curry threaded potato

9-27-2017 Wed. 



 DINNER --- curry threaded potato | shanghai salsa | sauteed mustard green | rice 

• with Francesca's curry 

tomato soup

9-26-2017 Tue. 


 DINNER --- tomato soup with silk gourd, Japanese yam and beech mushroom 

• tomato from Drew's garden 

homemde purple shiso juice

9-25-2017 Mon. 


 DINNER --- salad | vegetable stew: tomato, Chinese silk gourd, Japanese yam, and beech mushroom | homemade shiso juice drink 

• purple shiso leaves harvested from Drew's garden. boiled down and mixed with lemon and sugar. 
•  one bottle for Drew with home-designed packaging 

an afternoon of delicacy

9-24-2017 Sun. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee  | bread and cheese | fruit
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  ( in the teahouse, for S. and G.)  lightly pickled radish with creme fraiche and pickled shisho | pan-blistered shishito | seared, poached and marinated  duck breast and arugula | poached and marinated quail eggs | shisho juice and rum cocktail | mini cakes | cava | grapes 
DINNER --- pan-fried promfret | sauteed greens | salad | wine 

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• delicate and delicious little bites, fit perfectly for the afternoon drink with good friends coming afar. 

Italian and French

9-23-2017 Sat. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | bread and cheese | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- burrata salad |  sauteed dandelion | pasta with manila clams | wine | canele | mini cake  

• Lavande Patisserie got the young pastry master back! After a period of mediocrity, now those mini cakes are amazing again, with superb flavors and incredible precision. 

fried rice with bay scallops

9-22-2017 Fri. 


 DINNER --- fried rice with scallop, sausage, leek, mushroom and green onion | salad 

salad night

9-21-2017 Thu. 



 DINNER --- salad | sauteed vegetables 

• not much time 

stuffed

9-20-2017 Wed.  


 DINNER --- baked Japanese sweet potato fries | steamed dumplings | stuffed mushroom | salad 

 

purple shiso cocktail

9-19-2017 Tue.  


 DINNER --- boiled purple shiso drink | salad | sauteed green beans and bitter melon | stir-fried chive flowers and smoked tofu | rice 

 

yellow chives

9-18-2017 Mon.  

  
 DINNER ---simmered fresh peanuts in spiced broth | figs | sauteed bitter melon | scrambled eggs with Chinese yellow chives 

 

•  class evening

all the fancy salads

9-17-2017 Sun.  

WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and cheese | fruit 

AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---guacamole | cocktail
DINNER --- salad of cucumber and Japanese lotus bud | salad of sauteed fennel, pear and walnut | threaded duck confit with fresh prune compote |  roasted carrots with spice rub and cilantro

•  Klein aber fein,  as Susann says

Francesca's Indian cooking

9-16-2017 Sat.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | bread and cheese | fruit 
 AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
 DINNER --- ( at Francesca's ) Indian cuisine 

 

• Indian cooking, everything from scratch. got a small bottle of Francesca's brand curry mix