in autumn light and air, orange bread, butternut squash, heirloom tomtato

10-06--13-2025 

FOOD --- home baked orange bread | congee with thousand-year-old egg | pan-fried chive pockets | homemade gnocchi with tomato sauce | par-boiled tong-hao greens | farmers heirloom tomato salad | steamed blue crabs with fresh ginger rice vinegar dipping sauce | sauteed manila clams and Chinese silk gourd |  soy-braised beef noodles with snap peas | sauteed cauliflower with tomato sauce | steamed shao-mai |  butternut squash soup with smith apple |  pizza after concert: artichoke and margarita |  beer 

GARDEN --- in glorious autumn light 

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a ballet 

• NIH concert (a ballet again): Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé 

Moon cake, pink Muhly grass for the harvest moon

9-29--10-06-2025 

 FOOD --- | moon cake | pan-fried Chinese chive pockets |  butternut squash and smith apple soup | broiled salmon | garlic bread | sauteed kale | sauteed bean sprouts with zucchini and wood-ear | cod potato stew in homemade  romesco sauce |  broiled Korean style beef short ribs 

GARDEN --- pink muhly grass | white anemone