Waiting for a superman(by Iron and Wine)

Saffron Cod soup

(parsnip,carrot, tarragon, saffron,celery, tomato paste)

It becomes more and more frustrating, when will my Savior come?

Waiting for my superman, not has to be very powerful, just right will be fine

Sun Factory-my duty is to manufacture *sun* to cheep you up!

Salmon gravlax tartaree with orange ginger sauce, dill oil, broiled salmon skin

Organge ginge sauce: orange juice , ginger juice, hosin sauce, dijon mustart, rice vinegar, olive oil, honey

salmon gravlax:

the products from sun factory:

                                                        

                                                    

                                        

                                        

                                                

A play about spring

(Please adjust your volume to the maximum)

Golden beets, pear red beets puree, dill oil, beet emulsion, walnut dill arugula salad with truffle vinaigrette

Slow cook beet, Lemon ice cream, baby kiwi, fig balsamic syrup, basil lemon syrup

It looks like everybody is cheered up by the warm weather, so we are uplifting  each other. This is the spring from my note book:

1. Green sprouts

2.My neighbour took their griil out

3. Strawberry with reasonable price is back

4.STREET CLEANING > <

A captain but not a pilot

Pork Belly Confit, Hoison Glazed Turnip,Celery Root&Roasted Garlic Puree, Shiitake Mushroom Port Jus

The first five things that can cheer me up:( 2010 Spring version)

1. Interview

2. Cooking

3. Strawberry©

4. Eating good food

what is the last one.....................................

oh right , Flying a kite!

I guess everyone likes flying a kite for the same reason, it is at the other end the of string,  no matter how high it goes, it is always there, just me and kite, kite and me.. and the string is stretched tightly, I can feel the tension, the real strong connection with the kite . how could I do that with something else? 

But when it gets really high,  the tension on the string gets very strong, I will start to worry, then I will wind the strings to get my babe back, and carry it  home...

But nemo , he is so not good at flying , so most of time, I was helping him climb higher or keep balance with most of my patience, then when we got back to submarine, I noticed that he was more than happy to be the captain of the submarine instead of a pilot :)

It seems today is a perfect day, I have all five things happened,  but I'd rather to trade them for the next sunny weekend( sorry, except interviews)

Pork Confit:

1.Bury the pork belly in salt and other kind of spicy mixture , keep it refridged about 3 days, it is the process of curing

2. Make simple vegetable stock(thyme, carrot, ..onion, garlic, ginger...) , submerge the pork belly in the stock, covered with lard or bacon grease on top, leave it in the oven , 200F, overnight, I did it about 10 hrs

3. Cut it and pan fried it

Hoison Glazed Turnip:

1. Boiling the turnip in salt+sugar water until it gets cooked

2.Pan fried it, add hosin sauce +the stock got from pork belly, carefully turn them over several times until the glaze is formed

Roasted Garlic &Celery Root puree

1. Roasted whole garlics

2. Boiling celery root in the chicken broth

3. Mix them together and use blender to make puree, add heavy cream to adjust the thickness, white pepper , salt season

Shiitake Mushroom Jus

Port, Chicken stock, shiitake mushroom, shallot,  soy sauce, brown sugar, boiling them to reduce

ps: this is the best thing I had made so far, I think

Rainbow moments--Steak with Horseraddish cream and roasted carrot, roasted garlic parsnip puree

Woke up, accidently touched the pandora icon on my phone, surprisedly  it was a beautiful  'Somewhere over the rainbow' by Rufus. I have been stressed out, it was like a little hope that comforted me. Maybe...

Even if in the world over the rainbow, it is still difficult to find a job, I am sure it is a wonderful world, hmm... it should be under the strawberry system with a strawberry in the sky ,instead of a sun.

I can't go over the rainbow, and actually there were not too many rainbow moments in my life, I tried to record all of them ( since I had a camera). I even don't have a good picture under the rainbow. But I still remember the exicitement at each signle time. It's about the beauty of life. I hope I will have a job(full time, spornsoring h1b)  at the next rainbow moment( this summer?)

11/23/2007 Maui, HI

11/26/2007 Maui, HI

08/23/2008 Cambridge, MA

05/01/2009 Olympic National Park, WA

The food:

Steak: coffee spicy rubbed, rare cooked

horseraddish cream: horseraddish sour cream, dill

roaste carrot: fennel seeds, thyme, fennel, truffle oil

parsnip puree: roasted garlic, parsnip, cream

ps: I am craving for big meat sometimes and the dish was from many days ago, no interview, no appetite~~