Matsutake is a big deal of the season!

10-28--11-3-2024

DINNERS --- matsutake mushrooms 4 ways:  oven grilled with soy, pan-fried with brown butter, steamed with rice, clear soup with silk gourd | Chinese taco with twice-cooked pork, caramelized onion and green onion | shrimp and mustard green wonton | Chinese garlic scape with sliced pork |steamed egg custard with seaweed seasoning | parboiled tong-hao greens | sweet and sour lotus root | home baked 24-hour no-knead bread  

(at Zaytinya DC ) puffy bread and dips and spread | Greek cured fish roe | spinach roll with phyllo pastry | biased  lamb shank | smoked mushroom | herb cocktail 

fresh matsutake from local Japanese shop 

home baked 24-hour no-knead bread 

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Zaytinya revisit 

Halloween!!! 

• a packed week, celebration of the golden fall. 

matsutake, precious mushroom under pine

10-06-2019 Sun. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread | cheese | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER ---  baked matsutake mushroom | steamed Japanese eggplant with shisho wrap| pan-fried lotus root| pan-fried plantain | baked bronzino with fresh dill and ginger | burrata arugula tomato salad 

prep stage 

on dinner table

fall/winter reconfiguration 

• a super busy Sunday, dealing with season change, in and out.  matsutake is a last minute find in the local Japanese grocery. 

in the season of falling leaves

11-01-2015 Sun. mild, rain and clouds.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and cheese | fruits 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- cheese plate and wine
DINNER --- broiled lamb chop with homemade spice rub | sauteed mustard green | besmati rice | matsutake steamed egg custard | wine 

 

• excellent Iceland lamb chop 
• watched Hamlet asking THE question, from National Theatre LIVE.

no trick, just a treat of Japanese delicacies

10-31-2015 Sat. mild, clouds. 



WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee  | croissant | bread and cheese | melon | grapes 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- matsutake and daikon soup | lightly pickled cucumber | sushi | sake 

 

• sushi from local Japanese shop.