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 ***