JHU Popup dinners

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From the table
Roast chicken leg under a thick, herb-flecked sauce, with glazed carrots, on a white plate.
The table at night, set with plates of thinly sliced apple fanned over cream around a bowl of pastries.
Sliced cucumber and cubes of pale green melon dotted with chili crisp, on a white plate.
A nest of spaghetti with herbs and chili, a lemon wedge beside it, on a white plate.
Overhead view of the table: plates of the chicken with carrots and the cucumber salad, glasses of water between them.
From the kitchen
A deconstructed caprese: a scoop of white cream with basil, dark pearls over chopped tomato, and drops of green oil, in a blue-rimmed bowl.
“Caprese salad”
Tomato and egg, plated small: blistered cherry tomatoes in sauce under a mound of soft scrambled egg with scallion curls, in a blue-rimmed bowl.
“西紅柿炒雞蛋”
A tall, tightly built salad of greens and herbs with a coral dressing, ringed with crushed pistachio, on a white plate.
Salad
A sliced bone-in steak, pink inside, streaked with chili oil, with mashed potato and herbs on a white plate.
Steak
Purple gnocchi with charred greens and herbs over a bright orange carrot purée on a blue-rimmed plate.
Carrot gnocchi
Fried eggplant batons with crisp fried basil leaves and drops of a dark glaze on a ridged white plate.
Fried eggplant
Sliced pink lamb in a dark glaze beside braised bok choy on a white plate.
Lamb
A seared salmon fillet with crisp skin, julienned scallion, an orange sauce and a lemon wedge on a blue-rimmed plate.
Salmon
Bowl of dark, soy-glazed noodles topped with slices of grilled pork belly, a heap of scallions, and two poached eggs.
Pork belly noodles
Wide noodles with sautéed mushrooms, scallion curls and chili flakes in a white bowl.
Mushroom pasta
A square of layered cake under a lacy tuile, on chopped strawberries, with a dusting of red powder, on a blue-rimmed plate.
“Tres leches”
Squares of dark chocolate, a quenelle of pale ice cream, cherry pieces and dots of red sauce over crumbs on a blue-rimmed plate.
Cherry & chocolate