winter goes on, mulled wine, dark bread and borscht

2-17--23-2025

DINNERS --- baked Japanese sweet potato fries | warm mulled wine | whole wheat sourdough bread | borscht with sour cream| simmered Japanese pumpkin | sauteed Chinese long beans | scrambled eggs | fried rice with chives and bean curd | silk gourd and okra soup with mountain yam noddles  and tofu skin rolls | steamed shao-mai | pan fried  lotus root slices | shabu-shabu lamb slices,   fish balls, mushrooms, tofu and leafy vegetables | tiramisu  

spices in making mulled wine and borscht soup  

black bread and red soup, Crime and Punishment

2-10--16-2025

 DINNERS --- home baked Russian black rye bread | Russian red soup borcht | pan-fired dumplings with chive and egg filling | sauteed mustard green | taro roots with chili spice sauce | broiled lamb chop |  shabu-shabu: manila clams, silken tofu, fried tofu, pea shoots | baguette and clam broth dip   

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ABT at Kennedy Center 

superbowl and an opera

2-03-09--2025

 DINNERS --- Super Bowl TV dinner: guacamole and rye crackers | cocktail shrimp | broiled chicken wings  |  long bean stew ||  oden Japanese winter stew with tofu, daikon, and egg | tomato and silk gourd soup with winter bamboo shoots | sauteed Swiss chard | stewed Korean rice sticks with baby squid and kale | home baked Bosnian bread | Shanghai style sweet rice dumplings in fermented sweet rice broth 

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a world premiere 

an opera composed more than 100 years ago

• Edmond Dede 's  Morgiane , UMD performance art center 

Lunar New Year Day Special, home cooking tradition

1-27--2-02 -2025 

DINNERS ---  Lunar New Year Day :  fermented sweet rice broth with sweet rice dumplings | Kao-fu stew pot | quail eggs | winter bamboo shoots with Chinese celery and red pepper | okra with cherry tomato | Chinese hot pot:  sliced lamb, napa cabbage, fried tofu puff, mountain yam noddles , wood-ear, needle mushroom || stir-fried garlic scape with smoked tofu | Sichuan pickled cabbage | Japanese style panfried pork chop | Korean style broiled beef short ribs | opera cake 

• BSO concert : Prokofiev violin concerto +  Revel deconstructed Waltz