slow cooking: braised beef shank and beef brisket

11-11-17-2024

  DINNERS ---  wine soy braised beef shank with tofu, tea egg and fresh chestnuts | Taiwan style hand-pulled noodles in beef shank broth with  beef and green onion | steamed Chinese eggplant with garlic and chili sauce | Shanghai style wonton soup with shrimp and green mustard filling | pasta with baby squid, shittake and okra 

( at Susann's )  tuna and cream cheese in mini puff pastry shells | popover bread |  prosecco  | 6-h 250degree oven braised beef brisket |  sauteed string beans with sun-dried tomato sauce | baked baby potatoes with cheese | pumpkin pie and wine-poached pear | wine 

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at Susann's gathering 

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Smithsonian Asian Art Gallery 

Lara's tour : the Great Mongol Shahnama 

Russian black bread and Mexican sweet bread

11-04-10-2024

 DINNERS --- home baked Mexican sweet bread | home baked Russian black bread | butternut squash and smith apple soup | steamed Chinese eggplant with garlic and red pepper sauce | stir-fried threaded potato and sliced pepper |  broiled lamb chop | stir-fried Chinese celery and smoked bean curd | stir-fried Chinese long beans with fermented black bean sauce | silk gourd and Chinese w=mountain yam soup with king mushroom and tomato | stir-fried chive flower and bean curd | sliced  Korean rice cake with pickled cabbage, Japanese pork sausage, and shittake mushroom | (take-out) pizza:  spinach & artichoke heart | three meat  & tomato sauce

*** last bright scene of the garden ***

morning after the night rain that came after  38 dry days 

Matsutake is a big deal of the season!

10-28--11-3-2024

DINNERS --- matsutake mushrooms 4 ways:  oven grilled with soy, pan-fried with brown butter, steamed with rice, clear soup with silk gourd | Chinese taco with twice-cooked pork, caramelized onion and green onion | shrimp and mustard green wonton | Chinese garlic scape with sliced pork |steamed egg custard with seaweed seasoning | parboiled tong-hao greens | sweet and sour lotus root | home baked 24-hour no-knead bread  

(at Zaytinya DC ) puffy bread and dips and spread | Greek cured fish roe | spinach roll with phyllo pastry | biased  lamb shank | smoked mushroom | herb cocktail 

fresh matsutake from local Japanese shop 

home baked 24-hour no-knead bread 

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Zaytinya revisit 

Halloween!!! 

• a packed week, celebration of the golden fall.