homemade 24h no-knead pizza and apple scones

12-02-08-2024 

 DINNERS --- homemade 24h no-knead pizza : lamb sausage with fresh chili | fresh tomato with onion and olives | fried bacon with caramelized onion | roasted red pepper with artichoke hearts | homemade apple and cranberry scones |  pickled mustard greens with fresh soybeans | ramen noodle soup with fu-jian fish balls, napa cabbage, tofu skin rolls and wood-ear  | steamed shao-mai | oven baked egg rolls 

*** BalletX at Kennedy Center*** 

Vegetarian Thanksgiving Dinner with Friends

11-25--12-01-2024 

 DINNERS --- ( Thanksgiving with O. & F. )  prosecco || baked Japanese sweet potato fries | steamed Shao-mai | Sichuan spicy roasted peanuts || sake ||  white miso soup with silken tofu, silk gourd and kombu | Chinese flat-leaf chives pocket | homemade kimchi | parboiled tong-hao greens | Sweet-sour lotus root| soy and five-spice braised kao-fu pot with shiitake mushroom, wood-ear, daylily flower buds and fresh chestnuts | rice || cognac || opera cake  

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home-baked orange and dates bread | pan fried shrimp with salsa | ton-hao porridge with crushed peanuts | sauteed eggplant with fermented black bean sauce | broiled chicken wings | braised lamb shank and Chinese hand-pulled noddles 

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*** African American museum ***

Chinese hot pot with sliced lamb and spicy dipping sauce

11-18--24-2024

 DINNERS --- butternut squash and green apple soup | stir-fried garlic scape, Japanese sausage and yellow pepper | braised lamb shank with daikon and napa cabbage | sauteed roma beans | scrambled eggs with flat leaf chives | sauteed mustard greens | sauteed Chinese long beans | Chinese hot-pot : sliced lamb,  Fu-zhou fish balls, tofu skin rolls,  manila clams, napa cabbage, pea shoots 

breakfast

 ginger tea, pomegranate,  egg milk bread 

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concert Duke Ellington's work 

slow cooking: braised beef shank and beef brisket

11-11-17-2024

  DINNERS ---  wine soy braised beef shank with tofu, tea egg and fresh chestnuts | Taiwan style hand-pulled noodles in beef shank broth with  beef and green onion | steamed Chinese eggplant with garlic and chili sauce | Shanghai style wonton soup with shrimp and green mustard filling | pasta with baby squid, shittake and okra 

( at Susann's )  tuna and cream cheese in mini puff pastry shells | popover bread |  prosecco  | 6-h 250degree oven braised beef brisket |  sauteed string beans with sun-dried tomato sauce | baked baby potatoes with cheese | pumpkin pie and wine-poached pear | wine 

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at Susann's gathering 

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Smithsonian Asian Art Gallery 

Lara's tour : the Great Mongol Shahnama