Epicurean hedonistic pleasure. Food! Drink! Etc.!!
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:30 pm
I'm actually a fan of that most disparaged RfM tradition: the Friday What Are We Drinking thread. Not because I want to indulge in sophomoric WoW flouting, but because I truly love to eat and drink and I enjoy gastronomic advice of all kinds. I credit Thomas Harris's fictional creation, Hannibal Lecter as one of my epicure mentors: who knew pork cheeks could be so soft, so flavorful? And while I've not followed him into his more taboo interests, I also bow before his expertise in all matters of the vine.
So...here's my contribution towards encouraging more MDB sybaritism.
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I just finished my last batch of papers. No. More. Grading.
FOR EIGHT MONTHS!!!
Yay, me.
Thus, I am sitting down to a luncheon of cheese and wine. Three cheeses: an aged Gouda (which is also a favorite of my cat, Blixa), an artisanal hard cheese infused with hops, and the glorious named soft cheese, the Stinking Bishop (see http://www.teddingtoncheese.co.uk/acatalog/de339.htm). While I believe that "Stinking Bishop" should become the official exmo cheese, I must say even a believer can enjoy its majesty. No HG needed to feel this!
I'm also enjoying a Spanish red---a Llicorella Priorat. This is a garnet shaded wine grown in an especially dry and gravelly area---said to impart a "mineral quality".
That's not all.
I am prideful and vain about my cooking skillz. Tonight I will be making a variation on a Filipino bitter melon recipe. I serve mine with bean threads and cooked in sambal ooelek. Bitter melon, folks. You may not like it the first time you try it, but I promise your second serving will convince you.
So...here's my contribution towards encouraging more MDB sybaritism.
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I just finished my last batch of papers. No. More. Grading.
FOR EIGHT MONTHS!!!
Yay, me.
Thus, I am sitting down to a luncheon of cheese and wine. Three cheeses: an aged Gouda (which is also a favorite of my cat, Blixa), an artisanal hard cheese infused with hops, and the glorious named soft cheese, the Stinking Bishop (see http://www.teddingtoncheese.co.uk/acatalog/de339.htm). While I believe that "Stinking Bishop" should become the official exmo cheese, I must say even a believer can enjoy its majesty. No HG needed to feel this!
I'm also enjoying a Spanish red---a Llicorella Priorat. This is a garnet shaded wine grown in an especially dry and gravelly area---said to impart a "mineral quality".
That's not all.
I am prideful and vain about my cooking skillz. Tonight I will be making a variation on a Filipino bitter melon recipe. I serve mine with bean threads and cooked in sambal ooelek. Bitter melon, folks. You may not like it the first time you try it, but I promise your second serving will convince you.