food today (Thursday, 23 July 2009)

So what we had for lunch was some bread, some wine (Pecharmant), some rillettes de canard (purchased at the market), some sliced tomatoes ("heirloom"), olives (market), brie au lait cru, goat cheese from LeClerc (the cheese that looks like a stick of butter, but MUCH tastier), and some Roquefort (again, lait cru, Societe, WONDERFUL). I confes to having some iced tea along with all this, but that's a personal quirk.

For dinner at about 9:00 p.m. we had that skate/raie I bought at the market. This time I didn't just dip it in flour and sautee it. P had allowed as how he hadn't had any skate that he actually liked. So I looked up a couple of recipes and actually followed one, by Dan Boulud. It involved parboiling the skate, scraping the stuff off the outside, bringing it to a boil again with vinegar and spices, and then serving it with black butter, capers, and parsley. Oh, yes, deglazing the butter and capers with red wine vinegar. Very good. With a St. Estephe wine, new potatoes with butter and parsley, salad of "heirloom" tomatoes, onions, and radishes (okay, so that's a bit out of the ordinary, however, the radishes looked good, P loves them, and so I used them...also with wine vinegar and walnut oil), also some chopped parsley. Lord, how I hate these plastic cutting boards. Somebody please tell me why I don't toss the damned thing.

Lillie