fall vegetables and fruits

10-13-2011 Thu. cool, rain.


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- rice with sauteed vegetables
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- pear
DINNER --- baked Japanese sweet potato fries | butternut squash and apple soup | boiled black quinoa with smoked tofu, cilantro and dried cherries | sauteed cauliflowers with chipotle and sun-dried tomato | wine

• not fancy, but pretty elaborate meal using fall vegetable and fruits
  

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.