a feast of early summer fruit, vegetables and seafood

6-15-2013 Sat. warm, sunny.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | bread | Stilton cheese and figs | water melon | raspberry and mango 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- beer   
DINNER --- avocado and daikon salad | sashimi salmon and mackerel | boiled new baby potatoes with seasoned butter | sauteed fresh peas with garlic scape | sauteed baby squid with ginger and lemon juice | wine 

 

 

• a feast of fresh food on a set of beautiful ceramics, some of them recently made by DD.

Sashimi and Crab cake

6-03-2011 Fri. warm, sunny.


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- rice with sauteed English peas and chicken
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea
DINNER --- sashimi: saba, aji, salmon | rice | pan-fried crab cake: baby potato, blue crab meat, herbs and spices | wine | Japanese sweet roll and lotus root chip

• mackerel, salmon and crab
  

Having fun with Japanese cooking

7-09-2010 Fri. hot, sun to shower


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- rice with sauteed red pepper and mushrooms ( leftovers)
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- peach | Norwegian cookies
DINNER --- grilled shishamo (willow leaf smelt, Norwegian capelin) and shishito pepper | gyoza (Japanese pan-fried dumpling) | soba (Japanese buckwheat noddle) with bitter melon and cucumber | sashimi (tuna, salmon, sweet shrimp, mackerel) | mojito || cream puff | green tea

shiso, shishito pepper, bitter melon, shishamo

grilled shishamo and mini green pepper


gyoza


soba, bitter melon, cucumber


sashimi

• it is fun to make Japanese food, a collection of fine fish and fresh cute vegetables. The tiny fish shishamo is from Norway, smaller than smelt. shishito (Japanese mini green peppers) has a hint of sweetness and a texture similar to okra.