have them raw, pickled, sauteed, or into sauce

7-31-2018 Tue. 


 DINNER ---  burrata and basil, tomato | pickled Japanese eggplant | pasta with roasted red pepper sauce | sauteed French green beans 

• variety of vegetables prepared in variety of forms 

all in Chinese

7-30-2018 Mon. 


 DINNER --- sauteed Chinese green silk gourd| stir-fried threaded potato with si-chuan green peppercorn | simmered Chinese eggplant with fermented fava bean sauce 

• sichuan green peppercorn seems to have stronger "ma" aftertaste than he red kind.  fried in oil for a couple minutes before putting in other ingredients. 

home cured salmon

7-29-2018 Sun. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee  | bread  | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- turkish seafood rice with bay scallop and shiitake mushroom | open face sandwich with home cured salmon, cucumber, avocado and plum 

Japanese toast and Korean pancake

7-28-2018 Sat. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | home baked toast with maple syrup and butter | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  tea
DINNER --- baked red snapper | sauteed Chinese greens | Korean vegetable pancakes: large green onion, kimchi  

• daily production of the home baking lab 

bread bake off at home

7-27-2018 Fri. 


BREAKFAST --- coffee | home baked toast bread | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea | home baked rye bread | cherries 
DINNER --- pan-fried noodles with cabbage and kimchee | home baked sourdough bread 

• dd has a line of breads and starters going 

sea scallop civeche

7-26-2018 Thu. 


 DINNER --- zucchini fritters | sea scallop civeche with grapefruit and avocado | pan-fried shishito | salad 

• summer special 

cold soup noodle with ginkgo nuts and Asian pear

7-25-2018 Wed. 


DINNER ---  a loaf of home baked bread | sauteed bitter melon | cold soup noodle with oxtail broth, leek, ginkgo nuts, cucumber, okra and Asian pear 

• somewhere in China, Japan and Korea 
• witnessing THAT yellow car finally was towed from its platform of more than two decades,! 

red skin potato threads

7-24-2018 Tue. 


 DINNER ---  home baked sourdough bread | sauteed  mustard green| stir-fried red skin potato threads | salad  

Shanghai style meal

7-23-2018  Mon. 


 DINNER --- sauteed Chinese greens | stir-fried Chinese eggplant with leak and shiitake | Shanghai salsa | rice 

• like in Shnaghai 

clear oxtail soup

7-22-2018 Sun. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea | roasted ginkgo nuts | lychee 
DINNER --- clear oxtail soup with smoked shoyu dipping for meat | rice | scrambled egg with Chinese yellow sweet chives 

• gingko nuts and  Kyoto smoked shoyu from Minneapolis 
• clear oxtail broth took hours and much skimming, serving as chilled  soup for summer 

home baking from home growing sourdough

7-21-2018 Sat. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee |  toast three ways on home baked toast bread  | home baked sourdough bread | apple 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- ikea soft ice cream 
DINNER --- manila clam and pasta | winter melon and seaweed in clam broth | bean sprouts, cucumber and pepper salad | baked bronzini 

dd's  home baking, three breads from sourdough levain 

growing sourdough starter ( apple yeast water to sourdough levain ) 

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• dd's baking start from cultivating yeasts,  like  scientific experiments, procedure, process, observations and parameter tuning.