black bread and red soup, Crime and Punishment

2-10--16-2025

 DINNERS --- home baked Russian black rye bread | Russian red soup borcht | pan-fired dumplings with chive and egg filling | sauteed mustard green | taro roots with chili spice sauce | broiled lamb chop |  shabu-shabu: manila clams, silken tofu, fried tofu, pea shoots | baguette and clam broth dip   

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ABT at Kennedy Center 

red goulash and black rye bread

12-05--11-2022  

 

DINNERS --- homemade rye black bread | beef goulash | winter bok choy | baked bronzino | baby squid with celery | pasta with radicchio and homemade sofrito | mush room and pea shoots soup | steamed shao-mai | Brazilian baked goods from local farmer's market | chocolate bonbons from Arcay Chocolates

preparation of seasonal food:   fresh chestnuts |  kimchi 

boil and shell chestnuts

 

 

 making kimchi

 

Jambon beurre, eel kamameshi, and Russian herrings

5-28-2018 Mon. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- ( at Bread Furst) coffee | Jambon-beurre 
LUNCH ---  (at Kotobuki)  pickled squid, seaweed | simmered burdock | saba sashimi | eel kamameshi 
DINNER ---  Russian herrings under the fur coat, deconstructed ( Russian pickled herrings, beet, carrot, green radish, fried potato disks, pickled shallot, avocado, Icelandic yogurt with beet juice, charred Russian rye bread stick ) | Russian soup, modern vegetarian interpretation ( fried onion, roasted beet, red cabbage, tomato, carrot, potato, okra, herbs and spices) | white wine | salad | Russian honey cake | homemade almond lace cookie, pear sorbet, vanilla ice cream | black tea 

Bread Furst

Kotobuki

Russian dinner

• an excursion to the french bakery, the Japanese kamameshi house, then to Russian Gourmet.
• the Russian pickled herrings have the texture of sashimi, just saltier. the deconstructed fur coat is fantastic 
• pear sorbet  mimics the grainy texture of fresh pear, flavor goes well with vanilla and candied almond 

herrings pickled Russian way

1-19-2018 Fri. 


 DINNER --- ( at C.G. dinner Lara's)  herring and caviar snacks | borscht beef beet soup with sour cream and black bread | herring under fur coat ( egg salad with herring, beet,potato, mayonnaise) | gnocchi with beef in mushroom sauce | ice cream and apple walnuts | coffee | candies 

• Some Soviet legends there 
• herrings are particularly good, very different from other northern pickled herring, not salty, no vinegar either, almost like lox. 
• one of the Moscow candy wrap design has Bolshoi theater and ballet scene.