homemade gnocchi, with mark by fork

9-22--28-2025 

DINNERS --- ( brunch for S.S.) bread and cheese | homemade  gnocchi with homemade sofrito  sauce | sauteed zucchini and king mushroom |  spice-rubbed broiled lamb chop | fennel salad || corn | pasta with shrimp and zucchini | stir-fried Chinese celery and smoked bean curd | manila clams and vegetables in hot pot | steamed shao-mai 

• what can you say, S.S.  
• hummingbirds still around in the garden as late as the end of the Sept. 

spanish sofrito

12-01-2021 Wed. 

 DINNER ---  pasta with roasted red pepper sauce , cold cuts and parmesan | vegetable soup with sofrito 

• all red and sweet smoky 

sauce quiz: sofrito , tarako

3-25-2021 Thu. 

DINNER ---  roasted vegetables: fennel, onion, bell pepper, radish and shishito pepper , with sofrito sauce | creamy green pea and zucchini soup | pasta with Japanese cured fish roe sauce | garlic bread 

blooming 

• Spanish, Japanese, Italian, 

sofrito sauce

5-30-2019 Thu. 


DINNER --- pasta with sofrito sauce and red pepper, artichoke heart 

• sauce made a week ago,  good for all purpose 

whole okras with sofrito

11-13-2018 Tue. 



DINNER ---  sauteed okra with homemade sofrito |  paella leftover | steamed eggs with king mushroom 

• very good okra, fresh, tender and green 

seafood paella

9-19-2015 Sat. hot, sunny.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | cheese an bread | watermelon | grapes 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea | grapes 
DINNER --- seafood paella: smoked mussels, baby squid, green beans, chorizo, and sofrito sauce |  sauteed green beans | burrata and tomato salad | wine

• finished all in the big pan

Weisswurst, after church bell's noon chime

1-22-2014 Wed. cold, sunny.  


 BREAKFAST --- coffee | limpa bread | cheese | apple | tangerine 
 LUNCH --- fried rice 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea | tea  quail egg
DINNER ---   napa cabbage and fried tofu soup | pasta with sofrito sauce | German veal sausage weisswurst  | wine 

 

• gift from Susan

the good old pasta

9-24-2013 Tue. cool, sunny.  


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- rice with green beans 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- plums
DINNER ---  Spanish cured ham | Spanish sausage | pasta with sofrito sauce | sauteed cauliflowers  with tomato | salad | wine 

 

• sofrito is a slow food, made during weekend.

pasta withe sofrito

7-24-2013 Wed. warm, sunny.  


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- sauteed new potatoes | sauteed snow peas 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  green tea 
DINNER --- pasta with sofrito sauce, sauteed mushroom, and grated cheese | sauteed green beans | fennel and cherry tomato salad | wine

 

• sofrito is versatile, roasted red pepper adds bright accent.

paella

7-03-2013 Wed. warm, rain. 


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- pizza 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- plum
DINNER --- paella ( shrimp, beech mushroom, green beans, clam, sausage, quail eggs, sofrito sauce ) | wine 

• a clown face made from paella.

Provencal garlic soup

3-27-2013 Wed. chilly, sunny.  


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- rice with chive flowers and smoked tofu, Vietnamese-style fish cake AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- apple
DINNER ---  Provencal garlic soup with poached egg and toast |  pasta with homemade sofrito sauce | sauteed radicchio | wine 

 

such a cold spring,still feeling to have winter food