My dear, at the rate this country is going your services as an observer may be needed in the future!
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Langostino with fettuccine and a cheap montepulciano d'abruzzo.
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This may well be the case.
Nevertheless, perhaps it was fortunate that it was felt that my services were not required in the recent past.
Oh, yum.
Nothing wrong with a "cheap" (i.e. affordable) Montepulciano d'Abruzzo: This is one of those Italians where price and quality do actually intersect perfectly happily.
Thanks. The wine is in a Norlan scotch glass. It’s double walled blown glass. They make a heavy scotch glass too. It’s definitely heavy.
https://www.norlanglass.com/products/norlan-whisky-glass
Frozen langostino.
May just have to order those. You just got them a few weeks ago, right? Some of my good scotch glasses are crystal and heavy. Though these days I opt for a lighter glass variant. A company out here used to make scotch glasses using... obsidian! Which was way cool.
You could say it was scotch on the rocks. LOL
These aren’t too good of pictures but they’re the best I could do.
The heavy tumbler is on the left. It’s my favorite.
The blown glass is in the middle and ok.
The blind blown glass is on the right. It’s fine for blind taste comparisons.
[doublepost=1548896084][/doublepost]I got the heavy several months ago on preorder. The blown glass I’ve had for 12-18 months? I like them all but if I reach for a glass for scotch....it’s the heavy.
Lightest glasses I've had in my possession (I think I gave them out to my nephews when they became of drinking age) was the Four Roses single barrel sets. Decent heft, but light, and just the right amount of cuts to bring in some flare to an otherwise medium-dark bourbon. I knew people back in the day who would throw out glasses instead of giving them away. Seems most of the time people will buy a set of 8, 10, 12 or 16 and only use a few and eventually throw away the rest years later. Just give it out!
I have a bunch of snifter glasses for a variety of alcohol I rarely use but still keep. It's in line with the variety of mokas I own, nearly all in stainless steel since aluminum is whatever. I use one mainly, but the others are there for a reason. It might come in useful one day when I fancy only a single, small serving. Why two espresso machines. Why a variety grinders? Why have several mortar and pestles?
Though admittedly that last one falls under me being stringent with keeps spices, herbs and aromatics separate all the time.
The menu was in German, and the waiter was able to tell me pasta with pesto and vegetables. Vegetables included, spinach, onions, tomatoe, green beans, mushrooms, zucchini squash, and black olives. It was delicious except for the black olives which I flipped over onto my wife’s plate. She loves them.
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Because if you're gonna be drinking, you might as well get a few curls in.
And if you do it with the arm your Apple Watch is on, it will even track them for you.
That's Chinese cuisine, yeah ? Looks great ! Reminds me of a soup I used to have abroad called "Manchurian soup".
Smoked eel with pickled vegetables for starters, followed by turbot with potatoes (mashed with pancetta and Lots of Butter). Yum.
I've had smoked eel (where the eel kept its form and shape) in eastern Europe (an upmarket restaurant in Vilnius, in Lithuania), and from a stall in the farmers' market from a man who used to catch and smoke his own eels and mackerel. That would simply be served with brown bread.
The smoked eel I had last night was served more like dressed crab, with pickled vegetables (red cabbage, cucumber, pickles, carrot) and some sort of homemade crisp bread, and was so delicious that there wasn't a morsel or crumb remaining on my plate when I surrendered it to the staff.
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I’ve not had it smoked but it makes good sense. Smoked is probably the original method of cooking eel, I’ll bet.
I like san bei eel very much served in a hot pot with lots of onion and ginger. I’d order that or the Peking duck.
http://m.iqiyi.com/w_19rra41ft9.html
Trust me, this is seriously delicious.
The kind of greedy satisfying delicious that doesn't leave a singe crumb, or morsel, behind.
Having a rare treat tonight. Potatoes. We rarely have them now as Mrs AFB can’t. But every now and then we get a small bag.
Having them roasted with a chicken breast, stuffing and gravy. Some broccoli no doubt. Mrs AFB will have the chicken with the broccoli and cook some noodles.
Having them roasted with a chicken breast, stuffing and gravy. Some broccoli no doubt. Mrs AFB will have the chicken with the broccoli and cook some noodles.
Anybody here own an Instant Pot? I discovered them a few months back and finally bought one last week. Love finding the hundreds of recipes so far. Haven’t had a bad meal out of it yet.
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Beautiful!
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I’ll be grazing on different things: onion rings, wings, chips with queso & salsa.