The original mission for the SD trip is to meet gaogao, but I couldn’t make it. I got to know gaogao is getting old (only 17 years old) and he is a little weak ,not good for him to go out to meet people, so the supers stars in the zoon are the second generation, gaogao’ daughter(su lin) ans son (zhen zhen)and the newborn baby yunzi is a most pleasant news in the zoo. It was disappointing, but anyway, it was a fun trip. As I was told, he would have liked to see me too.
We stayed in a friend’s apartment and it is a classical Cantonese kitchen, no herbs on hand. But I still cooked there, with something I could grab from the WFs, in a very fusion way.
- T-Bone steak(coffee , galanga ginger, Chinese five spices rubbed) with sundried tomato blanc:
- Three-cups of octopus(oyster sauce, sesame oil, rice wine) with polenta cake( jalapeño, sweet corn, cheddar, celery)
- Baked apple with dates and maple walnut stuffing.
- Roasted red pepper, mushroom and orange cauliflowers.( I so wished I had thyme and truffle oil!)
It is so weird, after I travelled so many places, I still love Boston , love Cambridge most. I have been loving the words from ‘the little prince’:
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...
I guess it must be that I was captivated by a flower, a leaf , a coffee shop or a street corner or.. ,then every glance at the city is so joyful. But right now I even can’t remember what it exactly is. Recently, I have been instinctively feeling that I will eventually leave this city, it was always sad when it got to me. After I move away, this place will not be called as 'Thorndike Kitchen' any more, I should have knew it when I created it. ‘Thorndike’, it sounded so weird when I first heard it, but now it is such a sweet name for me. I am just a passenger…
I testify the steak was the best I ever had, much better than the pricy ones in resturant!
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