colorful food in a gray day

10-02-2011 Sun. chilly, rain.



WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | limpa bread | orange and cranberry marmalade | baguette | Icelandic blue cheese | apple | concord grapes
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea | lightly pickled eggplant
DINNER --- baked Japanese sweet potato fries | sauteed sweet corn, onion, and jalapeno | simmered squid with Japanese leek, ginger and shallot | black quinoa salad, with dried cherries, green and black olives, piquillo peppers, Marcona almonds and cilantro | pan-fried and braised whole pomfret fish | wine

Icelandic blue cheese


silver Pomfret

Japanese leek



simmering squid


sauteing corn


pan-fried pomfret


black quinoa

• ice blue cheese, silver fish, green leek, milky white squid, golden corn, and black quinoa.
  

in the mood for homemade pizza

8-14-2011 Sun. humid, thunder storm.


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | chiabatta bread | Icelandic soft cheese | croissant | scallion pancake | honeydew
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- long-jin green tea | apricot
DINNER --- homemade pizza with toppings of tomato, onion, eggplant, mozzarella and arugula | fennel and cherry tomato salad | wine

• homemade pizza back to menu, with summer tomato and arugula at their best. soft cheese from Iceland is terrific, ripe and flavorful like very good French brie.