Finish winter fair and sweets from afar

11-17-2018 Sat. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and cheese | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  tea
DINNER --- manila clam soup with pho vegetables | baked bronzino | parboiled greens 

from Finish winter fair in the neighborhood 

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Japanese chocolate from Apple Headquarter cafe

candy from Seattle

homemade fruit jam from Italy  ( via Japan)   

• Finish fair is colorful and fun 
• a collection of high calibre sweet things 

dark rye bread with pile of goodies

4-29-2018 Sun. 
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WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and jam | fruit  
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- open face bread with beet, avocado, sea bean, jalapeno, dill and smoked salmon | baked bronzini 

stacked fries

9-10-2017 Sun.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and cheese | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- baked and stacked Japanese sweet potato fries | sweet and sour whole bronzino | simmered Chinese moon beans | sauteed mustard greens | salad | wine 

 

12.30.

12-30-2016 Fri.  cold, flurry 



BREAKFAST --- coffee | scallion pancake | ji-cai soup wonton | grapefruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- winter bamboo shoot and silk gourd soup | baked bronzini | par-boiled pea leaves | rice | wine

•  the year is ending, search "in search for lost time"

Chinese greens with a halloweenish name

11-06-2016 Sun.  



WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread | cheese | fruit
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- "hollow-heart" greens | sauteed king mushroom and red peppers |wine

• beat off leaves and cook stems only,

Pasadena inspriation

4-29-2016 Fri. chilly, cloudy. 



BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- apple | Valrhona  chocolate ( at Lavande P.)
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- ( for  c. group)   cava | guacamole and crackers | shao-mai || Ayu tempura and yuzu dipping sauce | Maine sweet shrimp poached in garlic/sage/olive oil and  in grapefruit marinade, with fennel | deconstructed beet soup with buttermilk and dehydrated strawberries, mint | baked bronzino with lemon and ginger | sauteed beet leaves with fermented black beans | pan-fried asparagus with eggplant wrap | quinoa | chardonnay | riesling ||  Canele de Bordeaux , ice cream and strawberry | tea 

 

• a good spring feast, colorful and fresh  
• cooking inspired by sunny southern California 

shishito

8-09-2014 Sat. warm, clouds.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | bread and cheese | grapes | water melon | raspberries 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea 
DINNER ---  bread and truffle mouse | shishito pepper tempura | baked bronzini | sauteed fresh corn | fennel salad | wine 

 

• got a funky plate with three seahorses in french blue, good for serving a whole fish dish
• little shishito is in season, from local Japanese shop. 

600 beats, not 400 blows

6-28-2014 Sat. warm, sunny.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | bread and cheese | raspberries | cherries 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  lychee
DINNER --- fresh corn fritter | sauteed fresh peas with garlic scape and choizo | baked bronzini | salad | wine 

 600 beats of egg white for corn fritter

 

• first serving of fresh sweet corn fritters this summer

all with shells ad bones

4-19-2014 Sat. warm, sunny.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | grapes | strawberries | bread and cheese  AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- pan-fried butterflied prawn with sea beans | par-boiled fresh garbanzo beans in shell with sea salt | steamed artichoke with lemon butter dipping | steamed manila calms with ginger rice vinegar dipping sauce | baked whole bronzini with sea beans, muscat grapes and dill | pan-fried baby potatoes |  avocado and fresh mozzarella salad | wine

•  a few nice finds at the WF market,  quite fresh sea beans still crunchy, and fresh garbanzo beans sweet like fresh pea.

Bronzini and lamb kabob

3-22-2014 Sat. mild,  light clouds.  



WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | homemade orange bread | apple | strawberries 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---Ji-cai wonton
DINNER --- steamed artichoke with lemon butter dipping sauce |  baked whole bronzini with scallion and ginger |  pan-fried fingerling potatoes | lightly pickled cucumber with fresh dill | lamb and orange kabob | wine 

 

 

• happy with fresh and good ingredients