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 


Sunday, December 7, 2025

Korean treasures in museum, Korean stew in kitchen

12-01--07-2025


COOKING ---  white bean stewed with chorizo ragu | Korean stew of rice cake with kimchi, sausage, smoked bean curd and bok choy | simmered kabocha | sauteed mustard green with beech mushroom | kung-pao eggplant | Ji-cai wonton soup | pan-fried pork chop | fried rice with eggs and peas | roasted vegetables 













tour of Korean Treasures at National Museum of Asian Art  ---









first snow of the season --- 



a new light 




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