WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | homemade Swedish limpa bread | apple | Shanghai baked buns AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea DINNER --- mushroom and manila clam soup | Chinese taco bun with BBQ pork shoulder and eggplant relish | wine
fillings for Chinese taco buns
clam soup
a late dinner of steamed Chinese taco buns filled at table
BREAKFAST --- coffee LUNCH --- ( at T.B. Pizza) Mexican pizza AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- apple DINNER --- ( at Drew's) fish chips and nuts | champagne cocktail | green papaya salad | roasted kabocha (Japanese pumpkin) | red curry chicken and eggplant | wine | homemade cookies with passion fruit sorbet
garlic, chili, dried shrimp, palm sugar, green papaya, green beans,cherry tomato, peanuts, fish sauce, karffir lime juice pounding away in Thai mortar and pestle
BREAKFAST --- coffee LUNCH --- rice with stir-fried cabbage ad pork chop AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- apple DINNER --- steamed dumplings with minced chicken and boy choy filling | shiitake and boy choy soup | wine
WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | popovers with apple | grapefruit AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea DINNER --- Thai green curry stew of fish, shrimp and lotus root | sauteed kale | baked Japanese sweet potato | rice | wine || Norwegian boller
popover with apple
Norwegian boller with raisin
Thai green curry fish stew
the coldest day so far this winter. a fine day to have Thai curry stew with a kick of hot and sour ingredients found at Thai Market: hot chili, Kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass, Three-Crab fish sauce, galangal.
two sessions of baking: popovers in the morning and Norwegian bollers for the evening.
WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | Swedish limpa bread with jam and butter | grapefruit AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea | tangerine DINNER --- ( super bowl dinner ) tortilla chips with guacamole | baked Japanese sweet potato fries | fried crispy silken tofu with dashi dipping sauce | five-spice braised beef soup with noodles
Super Bowl Sunday food consumption statistics: 1,25 billion chicken drumettes, 35 million avocados for the whole nation. We are lucky to grab two avocados, no chicken wings left at the market.
WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- ( at A&J) dim sum | fried twist bread | congee | Shanghai style wonton soup AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea DINNER --- Thai hot & sour seafood soup (Tom Yum Talay ) | simmered napa cabbage and radicchio with dashi | crispy scalloped potato | seared frozen steak with mushroom sauce | Italian bread | wine || Chinese sweet rice dumplings
dim sum
delicious wonton soup
simmered cabbage
Tom Yum Talay
searing with a torch
seared frozen steak
there are no boundaries for good food, dim sum, tom yum, and modernist seared frozen steak.
an alternative searing method: used the torch to sear the frozen steak instead of cast-iron pan on stove. the local temperature of the torch flame is much higher than that in a pan. the oven cooking time is about a hour and 15 minutes at 180 F. it could have been shorter for a bit more rare and tender result.
