Lunar New Year special pot: Eight Delights

2-12-2021 Fri. 

BREAKFAST ---homemade sweet rice dumpling in fermented sweet rice broth (酒釀湯圓)｜ oat porridge with seasoned kombu and bonito  | fruit 

DINNER --- grilled shishito pepper and leek | lightly pickled cucumber |steamed and pan-seared  Korean sticky rice blood sausage | pan-fried gyoza |  a pot of "eight delights" : mushroom, kombu  roll, mountain yam noodle bundle, tofu, gingko seeds,  pounded rice cake stick, daikon, chrysanthemum greens, simmered in dashi  | rice  

the year of the ox

homemade sweet rice dumpling

 in fermented sweet rice broth 

oat porridge

 with homemade seasoned kelp and bonito flakes 

afternoon snacks and tea

grilled shishito pepper and leek 

lightly pickled cucumber 

steamed and pan-seared  Korean sticky rice sausage 

a simmering pot of "eight delights"  

• a lot of food, vegetables mostly. 
• a quiet new year. 

for the new year of boar

2-09-2019 Sat. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | scallion pancake | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- ( for O. and F. , a vegetarian Chinese New Year Dinner)   home baked Chinese taco buns with pickled daikon, kimchi, cucumber, shiitake, smoked tofu | baked Japanese sweet potato fries | spicy pecan, peanuts and candied ginger | cava ||   rice cake in vegetable soup | Si-Chuan style wonton with ma-la chili oil (vegetarian wonton filling: spicy tofu skin, yellow chive and scrambled egg)  | homemade zong-zi ( sticky rice and chestnuts in bamboo leaves)  | celery and fresh ginger salad | sauteed bitter melon with bamboo shoots | stir-fried sweet potato noodles with rainbow colored vegetables | mapo tofu ( vegetarian version special ingredients:  blue cheese and smoked guda) | claypot rice and chestnuts |  sake || sweet rice dumplings in homemade fermented sweet rice broth with pomegranate and apple | homemade  Japanese fish cookie with fresh chestnut filling |  homemade  ginger infused panna cotta  with candied ginger and chocolate | cognac 

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• for the new year of boar