Pretty great weekend and as I sit down here now to write, the snow falling outside the window behind me, feels like the perfect time to tell you about it. We have a fantastic time going to our Christmas parties, both held a friend’s places and both full of great friends, food and drink. So of course I am going to tell you about the food or at least my food highlights! I sampled some amazing cheeses this weekend. I don’t know if you are like me or not but I adore cheese, every kind from mild to strong, soft to hard. I sampled a hard, crumbly, almost parchment coloured Spanish cheese, a great French blue cheese, a dark smoked Cheddar, a Gouda with garlic, a red marbled cheese and my perennial favourite at their place a Guinness cheddar. If you have never had go out and treat yourself. It is a cheddar cheese surrounded and enveloped in dark, thick Guinness with a dark rind on it. It tastes of aged cheddar with the earthiness of Guinness. Absolutely amazing! I also discovered the joy of espresso with a shot of sambuca in the coffee. A rich taste that offsets nicely the light, dry biscotti we were eating with the coffee. Overall it was a great way to slow and enjoy friends and since every where we went it was appetizers and finger foods, I could keep eating and not bother to count how many I had had. When you only put six or seven chocolate covered almonds in your hand to eat, if you have two or three handfuls it somehow doesn’t seem like as many chocolates!
I also tried out a new soup recipe I am working on with friends on Saturday night. Bit of a flop actually. I made a sweet potato and roasted red pepper soup but when we tried it is was kind of bland. Needed something, so I am still tinkering with it. Does it need nutmeg or cinnamon to make it sweeter or should I try cayenne as was suggested and make it fiery? Or perhaps they simply don’t go together and it was just a flop. Happens! Actually, happens too frequently but I like flops just as much as successes. It is all fun.
Snow is coming down outside and this weather almost always make me think of comfort food. Comfort food, comfort for us when we are feeling low, food to feed to your guy when he needs comfort, food to feed your kids to give them comfortable memories when they are adults. Food, ah glorious food, what more can I say? I think I will run, experiment with some left over soup, perfect on a snowy day, and heat up a left over stuffed pepper for dinner. Left over night around this house!
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