home baked orange bread, strawberries from Canada

9-03-08-2024 

 DINNERS ---  stewed kao-fu with shiitake mushroom, wood-ear, bamboo shoots, and dried day lily buds | lack-cut new potato backed | corn | burrata with tomato and basil | burrata with white nectarine and lettuce | broiled lamb chop | stir-fried chive flower and bean curd | sweet sour lotus root |  Canadian strawberries with sherry and cheese | home baked orange dates bread 

 Canadian strawberries

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a new independent bookstore 

transplanted from Shanghai 

ramen or xiao long bao

8-26--9-2-2024

 DINNERS --- ramen noodles with Japanese sausage, okra and fish roe | stir fried green beans | manila clams with silken tofu, beech mushroom and shiso | grilled Korean beef short ribs | sauteed fresh corn with red onion and roasted red pepper | baked lace-cut new potato | sauteed yellow zucchini with shiitake | steamed okra with cured mullet roe ||(at a Chinese restaurant) xiao long bao, pan-fried green beans, fried calamari, ma-la fish port 

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xiao long bao at a Chinese restaurant 

chive flowers from garden

new Mexican Hat from garden