Sunday, December 28, 2025

HOLIDAYS of DARKNESS & LIGHTS

12-22--28-2025



cooking, baking, eating, drinking --- 


home baked chocolate cake 


ARCAY chocolates 





homebaked madeleine


stovetop popcorn 


Oden 





Homebaked scones 

Homemade  pizza 




Italian feast at O. & F. 


Brunch at GLENSTONE 








Sunday, December 21, 2025

collecting food for holidays

12-15--21-2025


FOOD --- vegetables from a Japanese farm | beans and spices from Mexico | flat bread, fried dumplings  and baked lamb rice from a Afghan takeout | artisan chocolate from Thailand  
















Sunday, December 14, 2025

24hr no-knead bread and Chinese winter stew

12-08--14-2025


BAKING & COOKING --- 

24hr no-knead bread 

Jambon-beurre

baked Japanese sweet potato fries 

Chinese  winter stew 
beef, daikon, white beans and tofu 

stir-fry flat leaf chives and bean curd 

scrambled eggs with yellow chives 

soup of manila clams, okra and silken tofu 

pasta with homemade tomato sauce and radicchio 

Korean rice cakes with canton sausage, red onion and chives 

curry threaded potato 
sauteed bitter melon and king mushroom 

ramen with soy braised beef, king mushroom and bok choy 

ordered pizza 



PRE-HOLIDAY --- 
  • Sunday house recital of Chopin & Brahms with 20+ guests
  • Holiday gifts for children, from local bookshop and chocolatier 

STEPHEN KING's  new telling of HANSEL & GRETEL 

the same STEPHEN KING 
THE BODY a novella 
STAND BY ME a movie
 directed by ROB REINER 


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