deep breath

[gfrancie]

Today I am making boeuf bourguignon. I have not made it in quite awhile and I am using a classic recipe out of the Alice B. Tolkas cookbook. A lot of the recipes in this book are antiquated in some of the techniques, but it is such fun to do a few things now and then. It is a bit like playing in history.

It is a personal favorite book, with wonderful stories of Gertrude Stein, surviving world war two and all the various cooks/maids they had.

Really this recipe is an excuse to have a lot of wine and meat.

Comments

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

Wine and meat are two of my favorite things.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Wine and meat make for happy people. (case in point, the french)

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

I think I should open some wine right now. I would love to have a glass of sparkling shiraz, but I can't drink the whole bottle, and it doesn't keep well. I'll have to settle for something else.

[carrieann.livejournal.com]

Really this recipe is an excuse to have a lot of wine and meat.

As if you really need one. The fact that they exist is excuse enough.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Well, one can not live on meat and wine alone.
One also needs butter.

Indeed.

[carrieann.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't saying you merely eat those [I need bread and cheese to live, personally], but there's no need for an excuse, other than their mere existence, to consume them.

And now I'm hungry.

Re: Indeed.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

eat. eat a whole lot.
Just say to people, "I am eating for two and the other one is Orson Welles."

Re: Indeed.

[carrieann.livejournal.com]

At the rate I feel I'm gaining, I'm eating for me, Orson Welles, and Dom Deluise.

Re: Indeed.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Atleast you will enjoy the meal.
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