fermewnted sweet rice 77 degree, baked pizza 550 degree

1-22--28-2024

 DINNERS --- fermented sweet rice with sweet dumplings |  hoem baked limpa rye bread | sunny side up eggs | pan fried lotus root | parboiled pea leaves | sauteed eggplant |sauteed  fresh celtuce and beech mushroom | potato and greens salad | boiled  northern Chinese dumplings | grilled black cod marinated with white miso | home made pizza: three mushroom ( shiitake, beech and king ) , lamb sausage with  homemade red sauce,  peas with canton sausage with homemade white sauce 

sweet rice socked and steamed

best yeast from Shanghai 

fermentation  at work , 77 degree, 3 days

Volla ! 

limpa rye bread 

fresh celtuce 

grilled bleck cod marinated with miso 

lamb sausage and red sauce 

three mushroom and chili 

peas and canton sausage 

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walk the walk daily 

24-hour-no-knead bread with Jordanian olive oil and zaatar diping

1-15--21-2024

DINNERS ---  24 hour no-knead bread with olive oil and zaatar dip from Jordan | homemade vegetable pickles and olives | roasted vegetables | broiled lamb chop | sauteed zucchini and tomato | sauteed mustard greens | canton sausage | beef broth jelly | butternut squash and apple soup | homemade  Italian flat bread | broiled salmon | sauteed bitter melon and fresh winter bamboo shoot | pasta with homemade tomato sauce | winter delight pot: simmered tofu skin roll, winter bamboo shoot, shiitake mushroom, wood-ear, dried daylily buds and green pepper |  northern china style dumplings with chive and ji-cai filling 

baking in snow days

gift from Jordan: olive oil and zaatar mix 

*** snow accumulated ***

Thai tom yum soup with squid, Japanese sweet shrimp sashimi

1-08--14-2024 

DINNERS --- Thai tom yum soup with baby squid and freid tofu puff | Chinese beef in broth jelly | Japanese sweet shrimp sashimi | Syrian eggplant relish | pasta with smoked trout and salmon roe | pan fried lotus root | curry soup of mung bean noddles and fried tofu puff | baked bronzino | stir-fried chive flowers and bean curd 

lemon grass and Thai lime leaves from Drew's garden

tom yum soup with fried tofu and baby squid 

Chinese beef broth jelly 

Japanese sweet shrimp 

Syrian eggplant relish 

Mexican sweet bread 

new salt box from Japan 

rice rice everywhere for the new year

1-07-2024 

 DINNERS ---  fermented rice and rice dumplings | rice cake with napa cabbage and threaded pork | roasted potato with homemade yogurt sauce | rehashed qabili pilau, baked rice with lamb shank and carrots | butternut squash and apple soup | roasted PiPa duck from G.W. | @ A &J :  Sichuan pickled cabbage |  lightly pickled mustard green with tofu skin and fresh soy beans | xiao long bao | wonton soup |  housemade thick noodles in beef broth 

King Cake in Brooklyn 

homemade fermented rice and dumplings 

soup of rice cake with napa cabbage and pork

rehashed qabili pilau 

goat cheese and cured duck breast 

homemade cheese cake 

pipa duck at G.W.

the good old A&J

A.J house made beef noodles

homemade version of Beef noodle bowl