prelude of a warm spring

3-02--08-2026

COOKING and BAKING--- 

home baked Russian black bread 

Norwegian smoked salmon with shiso 

pan-fried pork cutlet and stir-fried cabbage 

simmered kabocha 

rice bowl with vegetables and egg

clam soup with fried tofu, 

beech mushroom and mountain yam noodles 

 Mexican red beans and pulled pork with chocolate mole 

pasta with radicchio, garlic scape and sausage 

stir-fried threaded daikon

parboiled Chinese greens

scrambled eggs with tomato 

boy choy soup with mushroom 

baked Japanese sweet potato fries

pan-fried gyoza 

shanghai-style soup Ji-cai wonton 

GARDEN and ART  --- 

garden cleaning #1 

#2

swamp magnolia seed pot with ink 

ink drawing using the seed pot 

the first blooms of the year 

OPERA,  new season, new venue ----- 

National Opera at Lisner 

Jazmine the red skirt dancer and the ballet teacher

 

Russian soup and bread

9-16-2012 Sun. warm, clouds.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and jam | Gouda cheese | grapes 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  simmered fresh peanuts in shell with Chinese spiced rice wine DINNER --- borscht ( beef, beets, tomato, potatoes, cabbage, onion, carrots, and herbs) | Russian black bread | stir-fried bitter melon | rice | fennel and cherry tomato salad | wine 

fresh peanuts

 Borscht and black bread

in garden today

 

• several hours spent on the bloody Russian stew soup, which turned out pretty well. 
• fresh peanuts in shell are rare find. slow-simmered peanuts in spiced wine is a Shanghai style snack food for drinking.
• some  garden work, see the fall coming

Broscht and black rye bread

9-26-2011 Mon. warm, cloudy.


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- cassoulet (leftovers)
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- apple
DINNER --- vegetable broscht ( beet, carrot, cabbage, tomato, onion, celery, mushroom, spinach) | homemade black rye bread (rye, wheat, burned sugar syrup, dark chocolate, caraway) | smoked mussels | sauteed green beans | fennel and radish salad | wine

• go Russian, dark and rich without meat.
  

homemade Russian black bread

2-08-2011 Tue. cold wind, sunny.


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- rice with sauteed bitter melon | shrimp shao-mai
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- apple
DINNER --- Russian red soup ( Borscht : red cabbage, red beets, black mushrooms, green onion ,with Chinese variation: + fried tofu cubes, winter bamboo shoots, napa cabbage ) | homemade Russian black bread ( Rye, burnt-sugar syrup, coco powder, caraway seeds ) | red wine

• a Russian dinner, hearty and warm. the black bread tasted very good with subtle sweetness and soft moist texture.