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Next on the cooking docket... snail butter and Julia Child's boeuf bourguignon.
Okay, now you're like, wtf is snail butter, that sounds disgusting. I admit it, it does have to do with escargot. But there aren't any actual snails involved. It's the sauce that's typically used with the dish, but it's delicious even without the gastropods. Basically you put butter, parsley, shallot, garlic, a dash of Pernod, salt, and pepper in a food mill and whip it all together. The result is a really tasty spread for bread (and pretty much anything else). As for the boeuf bourguignon, it's probably about time that I actually attempted it.
This is a really interesting, funny, well-written article about "the racial case against the Winter Olympics." It's called White Snow, Brown Rage. It makes some really good points without being totally overwrought about the race thing. Plus it's funny.
Yesterday I bought 5 bottles of the Riesling I was saying that I enjoyed in another post. It was all they had. I also have 2 bottles of the 2008 version (what's wine terminology for 'version'? Vintage? Bottling?), which isn't supposed to be as sweet, so we'll see if I actually like that one. While waiting for my car to get serviced yesterday, I read an article in Wine Spectator about fake wines. Can you imagine buying a bottle of wine for $20,000 (which, wtf) and suspecting it might be fake? Then again, can anyone REALLY know if it's not the real thing? What if it is, for instance, a Burgundy from the 19th century, just not the vineyard the label says it is? Could you REALLY know? And if you don't know/can't really tell, then what are you doing spending $20,000 on a bottle of wine anyway? I mean, obviously the people who are spending that kind of money on wine know more than the average Joe ... but how much of it is just bluster?
I watched the BSG webisodes between S2 and S3 -- "Resistance." I guess it's good info to know? Won't really know if I'm glad I watched them until I watch S3 and see how lost I am. (Like, even though I didn't much care for the miniseries, I'm glad I watched it because it set up the whole premise for the show and had a lot of character development I wouldn't have appreciated otherwise.)
Okay, now you're like, wtf is snail butter, that sounds disgusting. I admit it, it does have to do with escargot. But there aren't any actual snails involved. It's the sauce that's typically used with the dish, but it's delicious even without the gastropods. Basically you put butter, parsley, shallot, garlic, a dash of Pernod, salt, and pepper in a food mill and whip it all together. The result is a really tasty spread for bread (and pretty much anything else). As for the boeuf bourguignon, it's probably about time that I actually attempted it.
This is a really interesting, funny, well-written article about "the racial case against the Winter Olympics." It's called White Snow, Brown Rage. It makes some really good points without being totally overwrought about the race thing. Plus it's funny.
Yesterday I bought 5 bottles of the Riesling I was saying that I enjoyed in another post. It was all they had. I also have 2 bottles of the 2008 version (what's wine terminology for 'version'? Vintage? Bottling?), which isn't supposed to be as sweet, so we'll see if I actually like that one. While waiting for my car to get serviced yesterday, I read an article in Wine Spectator about fake wines. Can you imagine buying a bottle of wine for $20,000 (which, wtf) and suspecting it might be fake? Then again, can anyone REALLY know if it's not the real thing? What if it is, for instance, a Burgundy from the 19th century, just not the vineyard the label says it is? Could you REALLY know? And if you don't know/can't really tell, then what are you doing spending $20,000 on a bottle of wine anyway? I mean, obviously the people who are spending that kind of money on wine know more than the average Joe ... but how much of it is just bluster?
I watched the BSG webisodes between S2 and S3 -- "Resistance." I guess it's good info to know? Won't really know if I'm glad I watched them until I watch S3 and see how lost I am. (Like, even though I didn't much care for the miniseries, I'm glad I watched it because it set up the whole premise for the show and had a lot of character development I wouldn't have appreciated otherwise.)
