I wanted to write some more and share some more wisdom but we've gotta be up early tomorrow for a 400km drive to my bro and sis for a cousin reunion. We love good food and good drinks and are planning to go to Belgium in a few weeks time to try some trappist beer and enjoy a country we've just driven through.
I'll be back on Monday.
PS. the boxed alcohol is dirt cheap and if mixing it with tonic or coke I see no reason to craft gin or rum costing $100 a bottle. This will last long. And about the wine, it's more ore less kept "sterile" in the box and I can pour us a glass now and then not having to worry about the rest is getting bad. If I open a bottle I am forced to drink it all in a few days time, unless I want some nice Baeujolais Vinagre (or as we say Vino Blasco Espagnole - Blasco is Swanish - 'Blask' meaning 'washy' and then some Spaish sounding hinting about Blanco --- Blasco. Did that makes sense?).
I'll be back on Monday.
PS. the boxed alcohol is dirt cheap and if mixing it with tonic or coke I see no reason to craft gin or rum costing $100 a bottle. This will last long. And about the wine, it's more ore less kept "sterile" in the box and I can pour us a glass now and then not having to worry about the rest is getting bad. If I open a bottle I am forced to drink it all in a few days time, unless I want some nice Baeujolais Vinagre (or as we say Vino Blasco Espagnole - Blasco is Swanish - 'Blask' meaning 'washy' and then some Spaish sounding hinting about Blanco --- Blasco. Did that makes sense?).
We got a few gizmos to close up a bottle of wine or champagne so they last overnight.
Cousins are great. Do you have to take a ferry?
You can get good Bacardi and Vodka for 14 bucks for a 1.75L bottle at Costco in California. I don't drink gin.
Your mixing French and Spanish... God knows how! But it is sort of funny. It would make Tonto in Toronto speak his Esperanto, I guess?
While in Spain we watched Asterix at the Olympic Games, on TV, in Catalan. It was funny and surrealistic at the same time. Maybe it was the bottle of really good French VSOP calvados?
Cousins are great. Do you have to take a ferry?
You can get good Bacardi and Vodka for 14 bucks for a 1.75L bottle at Costco in California. I don't drink gin.
Your mixing French and Spanish... God knows how! But it is sort of funny. It would make Tonto in Toronto speak his Esperanto, I guess?
While in Spain we watched Asterix at the Olympic Games, on TV, in Catalan. It was funny and surrealistic at the same time. Maybe it was the bottle of really good French VSOP calvados?
In our experience the hand operated vacuum system called Vac-U-Vin (amazon link) will keep a bottle of red wine in good drinkable condition at room temperature for about a week, and a bottle of white wine about 1.5 weeks in the refrigerator. Probably there are several competitors offering extremely similar products under different brand names and at different prices. If you want more than two of their vacuum corks, so you can keep more than two open bottles, additional corks are about USD 2.50 each. And the corks last for several years & hundreds of bottles.
Mmm mm! If it like mine, it has an anchovy and haggis glaze in with the olives!
We are actually very fond of our won company. Seeing my bro and sis is OK but as I say "TWO'S A CROWD" and this time one of my cousins (looser) had turned pro-Putin (his Russo-estonian ex-wife feeds him with propaganda).
But, we spent Friday afternoon gossipping with my siblings (my sister-in-law made a great rhubarb cake - LOVE LOVE LOVE rhubard ad gooseberries - a gooseberry pie is the best you can get), met the cousins).
Saturday with the cousins, well they are OK, but ... Cousing Helen had ordered "kallskuret" (cold dishes with salad and stuff - roastbeef, ham,...).
Sunday we drove home and met a friend who moved out into the forrest as he and his wife also thinks 'two's or three's a crowd', keeping chicken, roosters and even pigs.
In 1970 the bridge to Öland was completed.
And finally, when it comes to drinks we are very into good wines only. We don't care where they come from as we are to drink the wine, not talk to it.
Tried this with pasta -- set a pot boiling and cook up your favorite pasta -- tonite I used bow-ties and my wife had GF penne. Loosely adapted from a NYTimes recipe last week:
Take the white part of 4 scallions sliced and hot simmer in a bit of oil until fragrant, to which are added slices of a zucchini, garlic, chili paste and capers. Saute until the zucchini is soft adding a tablespoon or so of fresh lemon juice. Take about 1/4 cup of the pasta water and add to the zucchini mixture and continue to blend.
Zucchini mix is poured over the hot pasta, top with cilantro or basil. Delish!
Take the white part of 4 scallions sliced and hot simmer in a bit of oil until fragrant, to which are added slices of a zucchini, garlic, chili paste and capers. Saute until the zucchini is soft adding a tablespoon or so of fresh lemon juice. Take about 1/4 cup of the pasta water and add to the zucchini mixture and continue to blend.
Zucchini mix is poured over the hot pasta, top with cilantro or basil. Delish!
Sounds interesting!
Green cheece is what I get if I forgot the cheece in the fridge for a few months ... 🙄
Green cheece is what I get if I forgot the cheece in the fridge for a few months ... 🙄
Kraft Parmesan Cheese? https://kraftnaturalcheese.com/parmesan-cheese , identified by the grand kids as "green cheese"
One of the most pleasurable "dips" -- a cup of mayo, cup of chopped artichoke hearts and a cup of Kraft Parm" -- mix, heat in oven @325 for 15 minutes!
We do use the Reggiano, shaved or broken into chunks with various salami. prosciutto, mortadella, peppers and olives etc.
One of the most pleasurable "dips" -- a cup of mayo, cup of chopped artichoke hearts and a cup of Kraft Parm" -- mix, heat in oven @325 for 15 minutes!
We do use the Reggiano, shaved or broken into chunks with various salami. prosciutto, mortadella, peppers and olives etc.
