This thread is making my mouth water. Normally, I'm the chef/cook at home and I love cooking nice meals, served with Italian red wine for preference. (Home made pasta, with homemade blue cheese sauce - melt some blue cheese, say gorgonzola, and add double cream to it when it's melted, then heat through, - and tossed greens is a simple favourite, as are potatoes par-boiled, then drizzled with olive oil, and roasted in a hot 200 + celsius oven with crushed garlic cloves, thyme and rosemary - that goes with everything; I cook curries, stir-fries, seared steaks, deep savoury stews cooked at low heat for five to eight hours, and many, many different pasta dishes......)
At present, I am far from north west Europe, and cooking is commercial catering (which is bland and tasteless), rather than something I do myself (not my choice.) Just now, I'd almost kill for a decent cheeseboard; yes, we have wine and beer, but food really makes a country, too. Good thread JP.
Cheers