Friday night, I was invited to a feast at a friend who has an unconditional love of cooking and good food. Marmiton, sporty, cultured, it is better versed in the art of receiving, end speaker and so on. It was more the nerve to tell me he was anxious that his meal is up to what I had used the last time (borscht, kasha and vareniki, served with vodka). For those who would be interested to know what the three were filled out of vareniki: potatoes bacon and cheese, mushrooms and three kinds of meat, either pork, beef and veal. I knew he would no reason to blush, but upon entry, he picked me through feelings: indeed, he used cheddar L'Isle-aux-Grues, ages 4 years, with Swiss chard and m has served all baked on an English muffin. However, we must say that I discovered my bakery bread and cheese from Isle-aux-Grues and it's a special occasion for me when I offer this delicious bread, which is wonderfully out that cheese exception. Casually, he explained that he has cooked "in Quebec" my taste buds are already excited, my mouth and saliva between two words my hands in my throat supplying muffin browned. The meal was followed by the opening of the bottle of wine I brought: a small Tocado, English red wine, then topped with asparagus soup with cream 45%, and it is not an error impactor. The cream was so powerful that it also has space tablespoons raw, completely overshadowed the vegetables. We used again and it was tastier.
The main dish served with a nice Bordeaux Black Sheep was a stew. However, this was not just any stew the moose was a little salty pork, deglaze with potatoes, turnips and carrots. You should have seen the eyes of my landlord when he talked about how he deglazed all, he was in a trance and he relived the moment with gusto. I reveled in my flat as the intervention of my colleague of his passion and his inexhaustible wit, taking us to feel the smell of wine, to hear his crackling in the stove and see the juices of come join the meat stew. Our conversation turned naturally to the types of ladies that could interest us, we Singles: We have determined that a woman can be very articulate, bright and pretty, but she absolutely must have an unconditional love of good food and be inclined to cook or at least learn to cook.
We had these thoughts (and the last glasses of the second bottle of wine) when we realized that our voracious appetite was also more than second serve main course. Quietly, we had to give a break before tackling the dessert, a crisp apple that I had made myself. So we finished the bottle before taking a small dessert wine with crisp, which did not fail us away from the cares of this world, just for a moment.
At the end of the meal, we have digested all with an excellent cup of tea, my friend tried hard to prepare with a rigor that would not have displeased the great tea rooms of this world. Thermometer in hand, pour into the bowl, which starts stopwatch and tea is served, slowly, and it is perfection. We can easily understand that it does not do things by half, a quality that honors him. I used to say that this is a quality that is applied generally in all actions of his life.
I got off to a memorable and very enjoyable and I sincerely thank him for making me discover the local cuisine.
