DINNERS --- baked Japanese sweet potato fries | warm mulled wine | whole wheat sourdough bread | borscht with sour cream| simmered Japanese pumpkin | sauteed Chinese long beans | scrambled eggs | fried rice with chives and bean curd | silk gourd and okra soup with mountain yam noddles and tofu skin rolls | steamed shao-mai | pan fried lotus root slices | shabu-shabu lamb slices, fish balls, mushrooms, tofu and leafy vegetables | tiramisu
spices in making mulled wine and borscht soup
