let us eat cakes and cassoulet for the new year

12-29-2025 -- 01-04-2026

HOLIDAY EPISODE 2  --- 

apple cake 

bagel 

with Norwegian smoked salmon and Japanese fish roe 

Chinese fermented sweet rice 

with Chinese sweet rice dumplings 

borscht soup with black rye bread 

stir-fried daikon and scallion 

sauteed snow peas 

duck breast 

Cassoulet with duck confit 

orange cheese cake 

Spanish truffle potato chips 

Mexican red corn popcorn 

afternoon cocktail

to NYC

fresh ramen noodles 

Helene Schjerfbeck show in Met 

Balthus paintings nearby  

soup and pasta in MOMA cafe 2

ASAWA show in MOMA 

leaving in a car by a tunnel

watching  the first sunset of the new year 

homemade pizza and streuselkuchen

11-20-2011 Sun. warm, cloudy.



WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | baguette | soft blue cheese | orange marmalade | apple | pear
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea
DINNER --- simmered baby octopus salad with fennel and tomatillo | homemade asiago cheese pizza with toppings: (1) fennel + radicchio + heirloom tomato ; (2) fresh Chantilly mushrooms; (3) caramelized onion + heirloom tomato | homemade apple streuselkuchen (German apple crumb cake) | wine

octopus salad

precious vegetables for pizza topping


onion and tomato


radicchio, fennel and tomato


Chantilly mushroom


apple streuselkuchen

• a Sunday of hard working day, baking, gardening, cleaning, and etc. homemade pizza turned out terrific, both crust and topping. streuselkuchen is a practice for upcoming German dinner.