Simple Tuscan white bean soup with carrots, onion, fennel, and some fresh-snipped rosemary sprigs

spare ribs

Homecooking

- braised cod with white sauce

- carrot salad sesame mayonnaise

- sweetened red kidney beans

- nameko mushroom miso soup

- rice

and...

I also made spinach salad but forgot to serve it. :-(

Granola: jar on shelf

Yogurt: found in fridge (sans mold!)

Pear: bowl on table

Clementine: caseful mom gave me for Xmas

Manuka honey: NZ, dad gave me this summer

- goya chanpuru

- boiled asparagus

- vinegared daikon radish and carrot

- rice

- natto and long green onion miso soup

- sauteed spinach, pork, egg, and tofu

- welsh onion miso soup

- fried burdock root and carrot

- simmered Mizuna and deep-fried tofu

- sweetened red kidney bean

Italian Easter pastries: Sweet bread with Eggs inside, sweet breads with nutella, sweet ricotta pie.

See, I am perfectly capable of feeding myself. Sorta.

Post in which I make excuses for just how gross this is.

R made the BEST brunch ! Endless drinking and eating from 2pm to 6pm.

everything but the sink fried rice breakfast. merguez sausage, sauteed vegs, egg, left over brown rice, frozen sweet peas, scallions. was trying to clear fridge of leftovers. tastes kinda like singapore mei fun.

Shot with a Nikon F3hp, Nikkor Ais 50 f1.4 lens with Kodak Tri-x pushed all the way up to 3200 and stand developed for two hours with Rodinal 1:100 dilution.

baked for breakfast

Home made goose confit tart, made with home made confit (goose legs removed from Christmas roast before roasting).

Homemade biscuits I made using a recipe from Cooks Illustrated magazine. The wedge-shaped ones are the 2nd batch I'd ever made, the "rounder" ones are the 3rd batch. I think I'm getting better at making them with each batch. Photo taken using flash and fluorescent lighting.

- beef stroganoff

- steamed vegetable salad (cauliflower, welsh onion, lotus root)

w/ Sauce

Ridgewood cured lamb, Appenzaler cheese, hand dipped ricotta by Calabro Farms, Granny Smith apple, Australian blood orange, sourdough bread

w/ Ponzu

- bacon and mizuna spaghetti

- grape tomato and rocket salad

- banana saute

今年初

Homecooked...

Bacon greased.

Cooked by William.

Bacon greased.

Cooked by William.

- braised beef and burdock with egg drop

- red kidney beans

- cabbage and carrot salad

- pickled daikon radish

- nameko mushroom miso soup

- rice

Cranberry bean soup with a gorgeous heirloom tomato from Givens Farms, some Weiser Farms butternut squash, and fresh baby spinach from Living Lettuce. Beans from Two Peas in a Pod.

Sunday dinner. Recipe from Fitness Magazine, April 2010 issue.

(I cook a lot when I'm stressed out, okay?)

Last night's yummy dinner, eggplant+bellpeppers+siu-yuk-pork, cooked up by Gavin. Nom!

Home-cooked shrimp scampi, deep fried shrimp heads, sautéed zucchini & cherry tomatoes, side of steamed kale & garlic (not pictured).

Eggplant parmesan with chicken, turkey bacon, mixed vegetables. Served with pasta in a garlic, butter and caper sauce.

w/ Black Truffle Salt

Chicken breast, great northern beans with tomatoes and scallions, fresh Cherokee tomatoes in balsamic

made by iron chef dirtherder

Jonathan and Jim anticipating