What are you eating and drinking tonight?

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:42 pm

William the White wrote:
thebish wrote:a box of "langues de chat" - exquisite french biscuits... (yes.. cat's tongues or rather cats' tongues, I guess...unless there is a many-tongued breed of Parisian cat)
doesn't look like a plural of cat to me, bish...

must be the parisian many-tongued breed then!

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:42 pm

Ha! Missed Bish's post. The French have wonderful nomenclature for their food. Pets de Nonne are one of my particular favourites!

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:48 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:Ha! Missed Bish's post. The French have wonderful nomenclature for their food. Pets de Nonne are one of my particular favourites!

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:53 pm

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:55 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:
William the White wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:Right, I've been to Asda and bought the Primitivo, pasta is on the go. William, I hope your recommendation is sound, or else there'll be bother.
Invite me round!!!
Been a bit busy (and head a bit buzzy) to reply but yes, a good recommendation William. Enjoyed it with penne/pesto/olives/sundried tomatoes and garlic. Can't go wrong for 4 quid, and a darn site of an improvement on the bilge water I last tried. Reminded me a little of Rioja/Tempranillo on the nose, hint of vanilla, no? Though if I might venture a little criticism (I'd hate to break from stereotype) I'm not overlly keen on high alcohol/tannic wines, and a couple of glasses later it started to become a bit of a "gum sticker". Still, as I say, £4 very rarely gets you a wine like that these days, so hats off. Any more reco's?

Glad you enjoyed - I think it's tremendous value, and good drinking with exactly that kind of meal - tomatoes, olives, garlic, pasta - I'm there. Country food, country wine. Had it with tonight's hotpot and they enjoyed each other. Didn't detect vanilla, i thought it was more tobacco on the nose, and was very surprised - and pleased - to find it smooth and not harsh. I love rioja/tempranillo myself, and agree, these are distant cousins. I don't like the Aussie heavy reds - they are really jam - but i do like some high tannin wines - southern french, for example. Didn't think this was particularly high tannin though.

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:03 am

I'm very much into lighter French wines - hence the Fronton obsession (it treads a fine line between Bordeaux and Beajolais almost perfectly). Don't get me wrong, now and then I can enjoy the tanins, but softer like Pomerol (when I can afford the bloody stuff!!) or Burgundy. Minervois, Hermitage etc I avoid, mostly for the dry gums and terrific headache I get.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:26 am

Lord Kangana wrote:I'm very much into lighter French wines - hence the Fronton obsession (it treads a fine line between Bordeaux and Beajolais almost perfectly). Don't get me wrong, now and then I can enjoy the tanins, but softer like Pomerol (when I can afford the bloody stuff!!) or Burgundy. Minervois, Hermitage etc I avoid, mostly for the dry gums and terrific headache I get.

Difference in taste between us, i think - though these are hugely different from each other, of course - but these are three of my absolute favourites with the right food/mood/moment...

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:14 pm

Heads up for the red wine lovers...

A languedoc treat on offer at morrison is a cotes du roussillon villages 2007 at £4.95.

It's my current red at that price... Yesterday with whore's pasta and today with a little blue cheese after salmon fillet... Partner had it with the salmon - i think it's slightly too heavy for that, but she'll choose red given the choice on most occasions... On the full side of medium bodied - would be great with steak, tomato-based italian, perfect with hot pot - and throw a glass into the casserole as well...

It's very good value imo - claims to be half price (but nearly a tenner would be pushing it imo)...

Do you like this appellation, LK? Or too gummy for you?

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:12 am

I hope I don't come across as patronising, but did you know that Roussillon is French for Catalan region? So its no surprise you like it.

I'm going over to France soon for a few weeks (finally, its been a loooong summer), and I might be popping over to the Roussillon, so I might give it a go. Must admit to not ever drinking much, other than Banyuls, from the region, but as the French South is now one of the best value for money areas in European Wine, I will take the advice. Ask Morrissons to reserve me a bottle!

Oh, and I'm enjoying a lovely Lussac-St Emillion (£6.99,Sainsburys, half price atm), with some proper Cheshire Cheese. Love Bordeaux, hate the price

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:54 am

Leek, potato and blue cheese soup... flavoured with rosemary and parsley...

Thick as porridge... Wholemeal bread... two bowls...

Sometimes soup is all you need...

A glass of Fitou... (Actually more than one)!

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:53 am

William the White wrote:
thebish wrote:a box of "langues de chat" - exquisite french biscuits... (yes.. cat's tongues or rather cats' tongues, I guess...unless there is a many-tongued breed of Parisian cat)
doesn't look like a plural of cat to me, bish...

I'd go for Bish's collective plural (cats') as the alternative is too bad to contemplate with morning tea.

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:18 pm

Yesterday it was Cassoulet in Castelnaudrey. And then a snooze by the Canal du Midi.

Today its Contre-Filet with Girolles and Pommes Boulangere. Washed down with some Pomerol and Pacherenc-de-Vic-Bilh. Croustade aux pommes followed by Pic de la Callebasse, Ossau Iraty, Bethmale and Tomme de Chevre, local fig chutney.

Megson can have a couple of weeks off the mood I'm in.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:46 pm

Nachos. And tea.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:38 pm

Aren't Pommes Boulangere a simple rip off of hot pot?

Cassoulet has too much meat for me - I'm not a veggie by any stretch but my hot pots have a lot of potato and onions and are comparatively light on lamb.

Just made one - using up stuff. Potatoes, swede, onions, carrots, petits pois, salt, pepper, rosemary...

Very inauthentic

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:07 pm

William the White wrote: I'm not a veggie by any stretch but my hot pots have a lot of potato and onions and are comparatively light on lamb.

Just made one - using up stuff. Potatoes, swede, onions, carrots, petits pois, salt, pepper, rosemary...

Very inauthentic

Black pudding is a must in my hot pot.

LK's local fig chutney. That's just got to go with a creamy blue cheese. Talking of which: Blacksticks White from Inglewhite, they actually now sell it in Tesco - Horwich. Wonderful stuff - especially with the 2007 Cotes Du Roussillon Villages that Morrison's are currently knocking out at £4.99 a bottle.

Anyway, I've got a chicken in the oven, and the smell of it along with this thread are making me very hungry!

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:54 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
William the White wrote: I'm not a veggie by any stretch but my hot pots have a lot of potato and onions and are comparatively light on lamb.

Just made one - using up stuff. Potatoes, swede, onions, carrots, petits pois, salt, pepper, rosemary...

Very inauthentic
Black pudding is a must in my hot pot.

LK's local fig chutney. That's just got to go with a creamy blue cheese. Talking of which: Blacksticks White from Inglewhite, they actually now sell it in Tesco - Horwich. Wonderful stuff - especially with the 2007 Cotes Du Roussillon Villages that Morrison's are currently knocking out at £4.99 a bottle.

Anyway, I've got a chicken in the oven, and the smell of it along with this thread are making me very hungry!

Half a bottle of that left - then I'm having a dry September...

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:13 pm

A fools errand William

As for the Cote de Rousillion stuff, they're going big on the advertising stuff over here, though buying it appears to be more difficult. A trip to Toulouse should solve that, so am hoping to be swigging it with some confit of duck tommorow night.

And boulangere potatoes, as I was always taught, were breakfast for the bakers - they'd just shove a large tray of it in the ovens with the bread (they require little finesse to be very tasty). This is of course French legend, and therefore as likely made up as true.

Hoboh · Post by **Hoboh** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:01 pm

Stella n pizza chavin' out

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:17 pm

Had a veggie Lasgna - not remarkable, but fine.

Preceded though by a new recipe (for me) - a turkish lentil soup, with garlic, tomato puree, good sprinkling of chilli flakes red lentils and - new to me - loads of dried mint and loads of lemon juice at the end... It rocked!

To drink - sober September proceeds slowly - is it really only three days in and twenty seven to go? My drink it is water bright, water bright and the occasional decaff coffee as the days concession to high living.

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:25 pm

made a big load of vegetarian Spaghettibollocknaked... yummm - washed down with half a bottle of Merlot

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