Pozole, tamales, lavash and escabeche

2-16-2019 Sat.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee  |  home baked bread | cheese | fruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea | home baked puff bread 
DINNER ---  Pozole ( hominy chili soup ):  mote pelado, guajillo, ancho, arbol, jackfruit, zucchini| home baked lavash bread | tamales: ground hominy, virgin coconut oil, homemade chili paste, peanut, fried fruit | baked whole fish | vegetable and potato en escabeche, Yucatan style ( bay leaves, black peppercorn, cloves, allspice, oregano) 

purple potato 

• dd's Mexican cuisine practice, with the principle of everything from scratch, vegan version 

tilapia pickled by lime juice

6-20-2013 Thu. mild, sunny.  


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- rice with silken tofu and mushroom
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  peach
DINNER --- ceviche with lightly pickled cucumber and daikon | sauteed fresh peas and garlic scape | rice | cherry tomato and fennel salad | wine 

 

• tilapia works well for ceviche, pickled and "cooked" by fresh lime juice for a day, the texture is form but not dry.

Mexican brunch at Oyamel

5-01-2011 Sun. mild, drizzle.

WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | apple
AFTERNOON-BRUNCH --- ( at Oyamel ) chips and salsa | huevos ranchero | huevos motulenos ( egg, tortilla, black beans, pork belly, and peas) | ceviche veracruzana ( red snapper, olives, piparra pepper air ) | nopal agado con salsa molcajete ( grilled cactus paddles) | three tacos ( goat, fish, braised beef tongue ) | grilled skirt steak | rice milk | churros de san angel con chocolate caliente ( fried pastry in sugar and cinnamon with hot chocolate )
DINNER --- vegetable soup ( shiitake, tomato, radish sprouts, tofu)

Brunch at Oyamel, Jose Andres' take on Mexican cuisine

magnolia sieboldii in the garden near Hirshhorn

Blinky Parlemo: Retrospective (at Hirshhorn)

• Oyamel is not at the same level as Zaytinya, sorry Jose.
• the Blinky Parlemo retrospective show at Hirsshorn is superb.