Hummingbirds and black blue salvia

8-19--25-2024

Hummingbird special 

 

from farmers market

a nostalgia meal at RAKU 

prawn tempura

grilled black cod 

Monkey bread, soba with natto

8-12--18-2024

DINNERS --- Monkey bread for breakfast | pan-fried flat leave chive pocket |  Pan-fried gyoza | soba with natto, fish roe and pickled seaweed | cucumber and shiso | parboiled tong-hao greens | sauteed bitter melon with wood-ear and needle mushroom | goat cheese with herbs and sun-dried tomato on cracker | burrata with heirloom tomato and basil | broiled lamb chop | 

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re-education by Peanuts

Japanese eel kamameshi, Vietnamese shrimp rolls

8-05-11-2024

DINNERS --- eel kamameshi | pan-fried shishito peppers | steamed shao-mai | Vietnamese spring rolls | Chinese summer gourd soup with mountain yam noddle knots and needle mushrooms | Japanese style pan-fried pork chop | sauteed kale | burrata with avocado, tomato, mint and shiso leaves | pasta with artichoke hearts and prosciutto | Syrian eggplant relish with flat bread 

Syrian eggplant relish and puffy bread

7-29--8-4-2024 

 DINNERS ---  Syrian eggplant relish | puff bread | gazpacho | pickled cauliflower and carrot | Korean spicy kale | chive flower and beech mushroom | cod stew with new potato and roasted red pepper |  pizza  

 crown gall  

on the young sour cherry tree 

it will need a surgery 

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a newly acquired  vintage book 

•  a quote from "Travels with a Donkey": "Alas, as we get up in life, and are more preoccupied with our affairs, even a holiday is a thing that must be worked for. To hold a pack upon a pack-saddle against a gale out of the freezing north is no high industry, but it is one that serves to occupy and compose the mind.And when the present is so exacting, who can annoy himself about the future?"