I plead guilty Mi Lud.. guilty as charged.. for I forgot to tell YOU the rest of the menu for last night's supper party.
WE started with slices of D cut smoked salmon.. there are two cuts of cutting smoked salmon, the very long, very finely slices are called long cut, the shorter, thicker slice is called D cut, because that is exactly what it looks like.. a capital D!
SHE served it with beurre de saumon fume.. which is French for smoked salmon butter.. this is truly delicious and much better if made the day before so that the taste of the fish has time to permeate the butter.
Why does SHE call it that? Ah well, over fifty years ago, SHE went to have lunch with HER lovely Godfather, Sidney Butterell, at Pruniers in St.James's.
It was there that SHE had this delicious butter for the first time and in order to honour this French family of amazing culinary artists.. SHE always calls it beurre de saumon fume.
Don't worry mes amis.. I am sure SHE will give YOU the recipe!
Very finely sliced Rye bread and lemons were also on the table.. it was all very pretty and very tasty.. I had been bribed with a mini snacket of the fish in the YumYum HQ so that I would not fly down and molest OUR friends' plates.. YOU will be relieved to hear that I behaved impeccably.. sigh.
The dish of Rump steak with a Bordelaise sauce was delicious. As were the Spaetzle, the ricer had worked very well and SHE had pan fried them with a small amount of garlic.
This was followed by a salad of the palest Chicory and glorious Radicchio.. crisp and slightly tart in order to cleanse their palates.
A charming roll of Goaty cheese came next.. it was creamy, perfectly ripe and then.. drum roll please.. came one of HER (very easy to make) favourite desserts.. Brown Bread Ice Cream with a sauce made of home grown golden Raspberries.
They have a totally different taste to the red Raspberries and I was unaware that SHE had smuggled any of these rare things into frosty part of chilly white larder.. aka freezer.
Coffee with crystallised Ginger completed their meal.. there was not a morsel to be seen on any plate or in a serving dish.. they had eaten the lot!
What a good thing I had that snacket before.. and that SHE is now going out for a very brisk long walk.
ME, I didn't eat everything like they did, I have no need for exercise, therefore, I intend to snooze whilst SHE stretches HER legs and breathes the crisp air.
It is December the 31st.. tomorrow will be the first day of 2014.. if WE do not post again today, may I take this opportunity to say "Thank YOU" to YOU all.. for I have just passed the 2nd anniversary of writing MY Blog.. and it has been such fun.
And also, of course, WE want to wish YOU all, Dear Readers, wherever YOU may be, a very healthy, joyful and prosperous New Year.
GeeGee Parrot.
December 31st, 2013.
WE started with slices of D cut smoked salmon.. there are two cuts of cutting smoked salmon, the very long, very finely slices are called long cut, the shorter, thicker slice is called D cut, because that is exactly what it looks like.. a capital D!
SHE served it with beurre de saumon fume.. which is French for smoked salmon butter.. this is truly delicious and much better if made the day before so that the taste of the fish has time to permeate the butter.
Why does SHE call it that? Ah well, over fifty years ago, SHE went to have lunch with HER lovely Godfather, Sidney Butterell, at Pruniers in St.James's.
It was there that SHE had this delicious butter for the first time and in order to honour this French family of amazing culinary artists.. SHE always calls it beurre de saumon fume.
Don't worry mes amis.. I am sure SHE will give YOU the recipe!
Very finely sliced Rye bread and lemons were also on the table.. it was all very pretty and very tasty.. I had been bribed with a mini snacket of the fish in the YumYum HQ so that I would not fly down and molest OUR friends' plates.. YOU will be relieved to hear that I behaved impeccably.. sigh.
The dish of Rump steak with a Bordelaise sauce was delicious. As were the Spaetzle, the ricer had worked very well and SHE had pan fried them with a small amount of garlic.
This was followed by a salad of the palest Chicory and glorious Radicchio.. crisp and slightly tart in order to cleanse their palates.
A charming roll of Goaty cheese came next.. it was creamy, perfectly ripe and then.. drum roll please.. came one of HER (very easy to make) favourite desserts.. Brown Bread Ice Cream with a sauce made of home grown golden Raspberries.
They have a totally different taste to the red Raspberries and I was unaware that SHE had smuggled any of these rare things into frosty part of chilly white larder.. aka freezer.
Coffee with crystallised Ginger completed their meal.. there was not a morsel to be seen on any plate or in a serving dish.. they had eaten the lot!
What a good thing I had that snacket before.. and that SHE is now going out for a very brisk long walk.
ME, I didn't eat everything like they did, I have no need for exercise, therefore, I intend to snooze whilst SHE stretches HER legs and breathes the crisp air.
It is December the 31st.. tomorrow will be the first day of 2014.. if WE do not post again today, may I take this opportunity to say "Thank YOU" to YOU all.. for I have just passed the 2nd anniversary of writing MY Blog.. and it has been such fun.
And also, of course, WE want to wish YOU all, Dear Readers, wherever YOU may be, a very healthy, joyful and prosperous New Year.
GeeGee Parrot.
December 31st, 2013.
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