Mille crape cake in town, fresh ice cream near Appalachian Trail

5-23-30-2022 

 

BREAKFASTS --- coffee | bread and cheese |waffle |  fruit

DINNERS--- steamed artichoke | open face sandwich with smoked salmon and greens | grilled lamb chop | burrata salad | tater tots | lightly pickled cucumber , tofu skin rolls and kimchi | grilled chicken wings | chilled dandan noddles | grilled shishito and mushroom skewer | grilled Korean style beef short ribs | Japanese crape  layer cake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 dinners in the garden

 

 

 

Mille Crepe Cake ( from Kyoto Matcha) 

 

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on Appalachian trail

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South Mountain creamery 

 

 black raspberry ice cream

• gorgeous days for the long weekend. 
  

Vietnamese spring rolls and Spanish octopus paella

5-16-22-2022  a couple of hot days

  

BREAKFASTS --- coffee | bread and cheese | waffle with berries | mango and strawberrie

DINNERS---  rose | beer | Italian cold cuts | guacamole and rye crackers | fennel salad  | winter melon, wood-ear and snap peas | baby potatoes with Spanish chorizo and rosemary | Vietnamese cool spring rolls | seafood paella: mushroom, clam, octopus and green peas

 

 

 spring garden collection

homemade steamed kimchi dumplings

5-09--15 -2022  

BREAKFASTS --- coffee  |  homemade apple and walnut scones | fruits 

DINNERS --- homemade kimchi dumplings | steamed artichoke | manila clams with lightly marinated cucumber and onion |  homemade tater tots | pasta with roasted red pepper sauce | scrambled eggs with tomato | parboiled baby kale | pan-fried Brussels  sprouts | rice |  baby potatoes 

• new combination of vegetarian filling: homemade kimchi, wood-ear, shittake mushroom, carrot, celery, onion and green onion

Jamon Iberico the blue-ribbon of ham

5-02--08 -2022  

BREAKFASTS --- coffee  | bread and cheese |  Norwegian pancake with apple | grapefruit | mango and berries

DINNERS--- Jamon Iberico | French ham | baguette | smoked trout | smoked and marinated herring | tabbouleh | salad kale, pear and blue cheese | sauteed spring bamboo shoots, wood-ear and bitter melon | curry cauliflowers and okra | zucchini fritters  | sauteed roma beans | roasted little sweet peppers and leak | soba with shiso leaves  

------- the first of this season -----

Icelandic poppy 

pine cone 

wild flowers

American fringe tree blooms

• came and went,  the same for people and flowers