before Woolf Works

3-14-2017 Tue. snow 


DINNER ---  homemade bread | sauteed bitter melon | long simmered daikon and kombu | Turkish rice with clams | wine 

•  a faded snow-in day. Woolf Works ballet in theater. 

in the garden, with friends

5-09-2015 Sat. warm, sunny.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | bread and cheese | raspberries | mango 
 AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
 DINNER --- ( in the tea house ) cocktail | dips and  spread | bread | olives | Turkish apricot, Turkish goat cheese, pistachio || ( in garden ) Pide (Turkish flatbread with feta cheese and tomato) | Manti (Turkish dumplings with spiced yorgurt) | Pilaf | Kamiyarik (Turkish stuffed eggplant) | Bamya Stew (Turkish stew with okra and chick peas) | cucumber yogurt | dry rose' | mango , raspberries, icecream with crushed almond roca | Persian cookies | Persian grapes | Yake 

 

•   lucky to have good freinds to share a memorable meal and beautiful evening

the first gardening day of the year

4-05-2015 Sun. mild, sunny.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and cheese | grapefruit | apple | grapes 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea | simmered fresh peanuts
DINNER --- grilled Japanese pumpkin balls | olives | scrambled eggs with asparagus | Turkish clam rice | wine

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pumpkin balls

• a beautiful day to be out gardening and watch bees and birds happily going around 
• got a new camellia.  One new Jane magnolia and two Poukhanense azalea coming. 

Turkish clam rice

4-24-2014 Thu. mild, cloudy.  


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- rice with cauliflowers 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- apple
DINNER --- Shanghai salsa | Turkish clam rice | sauteed snap peas and shrimp | wine 

 

• this rice has pretty long history