team-up gingko seeds and celery

2-19-2013 Tue.  chilly, rain.  


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- pounded rice cakes with vegetables 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- apple
DINNER --- sauteed celery, winter bamboo shoots and gingko seeds | braised eggplant with fermented fava bean sauce | chickpea and roasted red pepper salad | rice | wine

 

• the chickpea salad is prepared for an office party. the eggplant dish is getting better and better, full of flavor and almost creamy without losing color and shape.  gingko seeds go very well with celery.

vegetarian Thai dinner

4-09-2012 Mon. chilly wind, cloudy.


BREAKFAST --- coffee | coconut cream bead | apple
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea | dumplings
DINNER --- ( in the tea house) mojito | onion flat bread | baked Japanese sweet potato fries ||(vegetarian Thai for Oreste and Francesca) crunchy cucumber and cabbage salad with Thai basil and chili dressing | taro root fritter with minced tofu-fish, shiitake and Thai red curry | Pad Thai : stir-fried Thai rice noodles with tofu-skin-ground-meat, tamarind sauce, bean sprouts and crushed peanuts | Tom Yum: Thai hot and sour stew with fried tofu, straw mushroom, taro root, ginkgo seeds, and kombu knots | Jasmine rice

to the tea house

• vegetarian Thai for Oreste and Francesca, no shrimp paste or fish sauce. taro fritter is messy to make but worth the trouble. roasted Gingko seeds are terrific in Tom Yum Goong.