Japanese New Rice, Mexican Dried Chilies to welcome the New Year

12-31-2024 --01-01-2025

HOLIDAY PRESENTS from Family

new rice from Japan 

art ceramics from Mexico 

Wounaan Werregue palm basket from Colombia 

NEW YEARS EVE DINNER --- Ochazuke with polished new rice, dashi, pickled plum, roasted seaweed, pickled tiny fish, salmon flakes, wasabi | parboiled winter greens | Oden with fish cake, fried tofu, taro root, daikon, mountain yam  

NEW YEARS DAY --- home baked cinnamon roll bread | homemade Mexican chili sauces: Oaxacan Pasilla salsa, Guajillo garlic salsa , arbol tomato salsa  |  simmered black beans with Coyoacan dark chocolate spices | home baked whole wheat flat bread | spicy braised pork | caramelized onion | fried eggs | cilantro and pomegranate  

a curry built from scratch: Japanese curry rice

6-18-2021 Sat. 

WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee  | home baked banana and blueberry bread | cheese | fruits 

AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea

DINNER --- a bowl of Japanese curry rice with okra, radish, lotus root and kabocha  | Japanese style fried cutlet | snap peas | tofu with shiitake and okra 

• it is more intense than the typical Japanese style curry 

donabe with smoked herring and root vegetables

3-23-2021 Tue. 

BREAKFAST ---  oats porridge with ginkgo seeds and blueberry | coffee | fruit 

DINNER --- donabe with smoked herring, oyster mushroom and root vegetables | spinach with white sesame and soy paste | okra 

• tablewares are Japanese as well. 

Japanese style curry over rice

3-18-2021 Thu. 

 DINNER --- pickled vegetables | parboiled greens | Japanese style curry ( onion, shiitaki, potato, tofu, carrot, lotus root) served with  okra, tomato and tender-boiled egg over rice | home baked lemon cake 

eel kamamashi

2-05-2021 Fri. 

 DINNER --- lightly pickled daikon salad | parboiled Japanese greens | eel kamamashi with shiitake, greens and fresh gingko seeds 

 

• better quality eel this time. nashimoto 

daikon and kelp roll in dashi

1-24-2021 Sun. 

WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | home baked orange and dates bread | fruit 

AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- afternoon tea at the zoom gathering 

DINNER ---  simmered daikon and kelp roll in dashi | taro root with | lightly pickled dandelion leaves | baked bronzino with fresh ginger and garlic 

• slow food that is