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  

Holiday time: Shabu Shabu and Magic Flute

12-24--29-2024

HOLIDAY DINNER with friends at home  CHINESE --- rose sparkling wine | cocktail shrimp | home baked focaccia with zaatar herb spice topping || white wine | silk gourd and silken tofu soup | stir-fried threaded daikon with scallion | stir-fried garlic scape with smoked bean curd | stir-fried bitter melon with lotus root | Shanghai style cai-fan (rice with bacon bits and winter greens kale) | kao-fu pot with winter bamboo shoot, wood-ear, shittake mushroom, and lily buds | baked whole bronzino with scallion and ginger | Chinese sweet rice dumplings in honey broth 

HOLIDAY DINNER with family at Lafay 101 DD's  JAPANESE ---- Japanese green tea with hard candy | daikon and tofu pouch with mushroom and olive filling in dashi broth with Japanese mustard and yuzu sauce| monkfish liver with grated daikon and chives | tomato jelly | shabu shabu hot pot:  napa cabbage rolls, lightly grilled tofu, beech mushroom, leek, greens, monkfish, yellowtail, clams, finished broth with steamed rice and raw eggs | tea with taiyake  

Holiday dinner mostly vegetables 

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Japanese dinner at DD's

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Magic Flute at Met

Kathryn Lewek  the queen of the Queen of the Night!

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night walk: the Time Square and Fifth Ave 

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