homemade savory bread and fish stew in Romesco sauce

6-09--15-2025 

DINNERS ---  home baked savory bread: onion, cottage cheese and dill | braised manila clams with herbs and mountain yam noddles | margarita  | cod and potato stew with chorizo and homemade Romesco sauce | burrata, tomato and avocado salad | pan-fried pork cutlet | parboiled baby potato with mustard and rosemary | sauteed zucchini and king mushroom | scrambled eggs with yellow chives |Chinese eggplant with onion and fermented fava bean sauce| sauteed asparagus | sauteed bean sprouts with tai basil and tofu | fried rice | broiled salmon | lychee 

garden into summer 

concert opera 

a full table on the island

10-08-2016 Sat. cool, rain.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | toast | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  tea | homemade Nordic rye and sunflower seed  bread |  grapes
DINNER ---( on V. Island ) pan-fried prawn in romesco sauce | steamed Burssel's srpouts | brown rice noodle salad with scallion, shiitake and bean sprouts | french lentils with roasted red pepper, walnuts  and leek | wine | ice cream with apple strudel 

• fun to shop and cook on the island  

smoky sweet romesco

5-30-2016 Mon. warm, sunny.  


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- leftovers  
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- apple
DINNER --- salad | pasta with romesco sauce | wine

•  when we are talk about romesco, we are talking about smoky roasted red pepper

romescada

9-21-2014 Sun. warm, sunny.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee |  scallion pancake | grapes | apple 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  Champagne | cheese | baguette 
DINNER --- Catalan stew with shrimp and squid in Romesco sauce | toasted bread | salad | wine 

 

•  real truffle embedded in this unusual Swiss soft cheese
• Catalan seafood stew , recipe from David Tanis's NYT column

pasta with romesco sauce

9-11-2013 Wed. hot, sunny.  


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- rice with radicchio 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea | grapes 
DINNER --- pasta with romesco sauce, olives and cheese | ragu of scarlet running beans, dark red tomatoes, celery,and new  garlic  |  smoked salmon | white fish and shrimp ceviche with cucumber and cilantro | salad | wine 

 

• romesco has intense flavor of  smoked pepper and roasted tomato and garlic. 
• scarlet running beans from V. Island farmer's market, very different taste and texture from Roma beans, nutty and tough.

sailing back to Spain

9-01-2013 Sun. hot, sunny.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | bread | cheese | watermelon | grapes  | strawberries 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  tea 
DINNER --- yellow tail sashimi with lightly pickled watermelon rind and avocado | toast with romesco sauce ( smoked nora pepper, roasted tomato, garlic, and onion) and fried egg | caramelized carrots wit cilantro and bacon | miso-marinated and pan-fried rock fish filet | rice | soup of fish head and tofu | salad | cava  wine

 

• fish is very fresh,  the fish soup looks like milk. 
• romesco sauce has the original ingredient of nora pepper this time.

Mediterranean, Spainish and French

5-04-2013 Sat. mild, sunny.



WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | Norwegian pancake with apple and mango | bread | grapes 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- guacamole with chips | flat bread with romesco sauce | beer   DINNER --- truffle goose liver mouse | bread | duck confit | homemade gnocchi with romesco sauce | pan-fried baby artichoke with shallots | wine 

a family walk in M. Garden

 

• a fun and relaxed family gathering