UKCruiseJeff

Excellent. It is once of our favourite vegetable dishes. Waxy reds diced largely and steamed until just under, fried slowly’ish in butter and olive oil with a sprinkle of ground nutmeg, pepper and sea salt and parsely. It is sweet and lovely. 🙂

Glad it was helpful. We’ve been talking about taking a few trips back. We are so fortunate that Paris is so close and so miss our stomping grounds of Coupole, Bofinger, Lipp etc and all those great value Michelin lunches. A bit surprised by the ptice of the laurent perrier grand siecle. Hope you get there. Jeff

I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: The Paris restaurant where you choose your wine — and it chooses your food. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7bf5820e-648b-422f-b5a0-eef184b2c255?shareToken=6aab31af42c7cde24309336e91a371ce

Been watching the live Primavera streams over the last few days .. not sure how much is left …

Good Afternoon `Coolers, Today was a special request from The Boss. Salmon and my cheats sauce. And for Spins ….. PEAS!

Cassettes? 8-Track surely much better! And with it brings the opportunity to listen to two tracks at the same time plus a loud clunk in the middle when changing tracks. 🙂 Do I detect slightly less bounce in your step in the last post? Hope stuff isn’t exceeding the mid-niggle point. Keep your pecker up. Lie back and think of England. Jeff

I saw what you did there.

Take your wine with you so that you do not need to subsequently whine.

I appreciate wine. I like almost any wine. My preference is if someone else buys it and pours it in a mug for me. And when my mug is empty buys more. It has in fact never happened, I am the dribbling man in Dirty Rotten Rascals.

Well done drron! The great thing about your stash is that you know you have to drink it all before Mrs Ron allows you to buy more. Out of interest (and in the pursuit of honest disclosure,) whilst you were drinking these 2000 bottles were you advising all your patients to cut down on their intake you rascal? 🫣 Here is some stash porn for us.

Thank god for that. I thought was giving away once again my lack of culture.

If you enjoy your white wine at 2c and drink it in a mug, I think you are basically saying that finesse is not your (my) middle name. The thing is though, “In mitigation your honour” every time I’ve served frozen wine in a frozen mug (just like Americans serving Michelob) they always like my approach after the third or fourth mug or so. Am I right or am I right? 🙂

I think I know who Jeff is but who is Bartles? It’s be a really short Wine Cooler if I posted about wine.

Must 2nd JP’s Gruner. But it must be frozen and in a glass mug. 🙂 You’re so wise making your schnitzel with chicken. I always feel a bit like I’m not behaving when I don’t use veal or pork, but veal is tasteless and the ratio of meat to crumb isn’t right and pork can be tough. Our now very clear favourite is turkey schnitzel - because you can make them quite big and it has taste and texture and in panko crumb. And it must be bratkartoffln or a cheats Austrian potato salad. Instead of all that Styrian oil palaver, boil up some waxy potato cubes and when done and still hot add chopped dill and red onion and pour over some French dressing. I hope you post a piccy of your schnitz.

Great post DW. I think a further mitigating factor is that I like my white wine extremely cold. We have a white wine fridge and I think it’s 2c’ish. It’s basically just above freezing. At that point they seem to lose individuality and I like young dry uncomplicated white. With that,every day is summer. No “fruit” or anything like that. I love Provençal Rose, and if I splash out it might be Ott. But I hate any hint of fruitiness or fragrance. It m ust be blush or very light. I hate that thick dark stuff. So far as reds are concerned I will own up to sometimes buying something more expensive but only when something from an under-rated varietal or area catches my eye. So you might get a better bang per buck for spending £30 on a Penedes rather than say a Rioja. I’m glad to read that there are others not swung by price for the sake of it. Jeff ps I also have a house Pilsner and a British beer! Staropramen Premium Czech and London Pride!