Item 1: Teenaged Daughterness
This is a quote, from my beloved teenaged daughter, as explanation for why she'd requested that I discontinue speaking: "The vibration of your talking is irritating my sense of well being." This is why ego is useless.
Item 2: The Quality of Simplicity
Here is my menu for an upcoming very small holiday dinner at my place, as demonstration of the principle that quality ingredients prepared simply are the secret to culinary happiness:
Champagne
Caviar on crackers with crème fraiche
Very Light Salad
Cheese soufflé with lobster sauce
Hot chocolate with peppermint Schnapps or Frangelico
Gingered Sugar Cookies, Peppermint Sugar Cookies
Yes, all simple. Nothing to cover up, nothing to obscure. If any of these ingredients were less than fresh or less than fine the meal would suffer horribly (and thus the guests). So, we'll work with live lobster, fresh (even though the inexpensive domestic kind) caviar, good eggs, local cream and milk, fine cheese and chocolate, homemade cookies baked that day, and the freshest salad makings (Kelly is bringing them, and I know she won't go astray). That's it.
1 comment:
Well, that sounds delicious, and delightful. Sorry about the surly teenager.
We had goose, which is also simple. And a tarte au poire a la bourdaloue which was not simple, but was super good.
Visitors are now gone, so I am basking in some introversion.
Holiday hugs!
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