into the summer of 2023

6-20--25-2023

DINNERS --- ( somewhat special)  chocolate cakes | cognac | chilled soba with toasted seaweed, pickled fish roe and cucumber | manila clams and silken tofu soup with baguette | baked bronzino | sauteed string beans | sauteed sweet corn with roasted red pepper | endive and arugula salad

 

*** garden into summer ***

 

 

 

 

• a milestone, as they say.
  

a happy hour party in the tea house

6-12--19-2023

 

BBHH party in the tea house --- pressed eel sushi | vegetable sushi rolls | edamame | endive boat of Shanghai salsa ( smoked bean curd, cilantro and roasted peanuts) | skewers ( shiitake, cucumber, radish, grilled shrimp, tea quail egg and grilled leek) | Swedish limpa bread open face sandwich: avocado toast, Norwegian brown goat cheese, Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese | cherries | Persian cookies ||  drinks ( shiso tea raspberry,  rosemary orange juice,  mint lime mojito ) | rose wine

 

 

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• everyone liked the tea house and the drink food. In the middle of the time there was a thunder storm ( not in forecast),  it was fun to watch the rain water flowing down along the rain chain outside of the glass wall.
  

flowers and vegetables of early summer

6-06--11-2023 

 

DINNERS --- fresh peas and bean curd | fresh corn |grilled lamb chop | parboiled greens |  Japanese  style curry on rice | Japanese style fried pork cutlet | pasta with sorrel pesto sauce 

 Tanglewood flower farm tour 

 

 

 

early summer flowers in the garden 

 

 

 

 

 

 

some brought in

 

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BSO concert  

Isata Kanneh-Mason

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3

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cooking group lunch: all about tofu 

tofu skin rolls

from farmers market

•  a week of events: a flower farm tour,  a concert of BSO with Isita Kanneh-Mason, and a lunch of "all about tofu" with cooking group friends
  

 

all the seafood from Le Bernardin, all the greens from farmers market

5-30--6-4-2023 

    

at Le Bernardin: Taragai | Red snapper | Tasmanian Sea Trout | Shellfish Medley | Salmon | Fluke | Merluza | Black Bass | sorbet 

 

 

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DINNERS at home :  Korean style marinated and grilled beef short ribs | Korean style soup noodle |  steamed xiao-long bao | steamed leaf-wrapped sweat rice |  sauteed fresh peas and garlic scapes | garlic and chili fried  shrimp |  soba noodles with zucchini and mushroom | guacamole and rye crackers

 

      

fresh hull peas and garlic scapes from local farmers market

 

• stars for seafood of Le Bernardin and for fresh produce of local farmers market