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Taste moments
Posted by kb on 1 November 2010 - 3:59pm.
Watching David Tennant's character on Single Father sit down in an Indian restaurant and put a pint of lager to his lips while he read the menu and reached for a poppadom, made me think what an evocative taste moment that is. That first sip and crunch is right up there in taste sensations, even if the rest of the meal might be quite ordinary.
Other top taste moments?
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Sorry kb,but it had to be done.
I thought this was about moments of taste...
what's going on?
Freshly baked
Marks and Spencers chocolate chip shortbread squares after they've been in the fridge for a while.
*other shortbread products are available - but they pale into insignificance compared to these beauties.*
The first...
...bite of a crispy duck pancake, possibly with some hoi-sin escaping from the other end. Of the pancake, that is, not me.
A forkful of cut-its-tail-off-and-wipe-its-arse rare rib-eye, with thin, hot, salty beef-dripping-fried chips and a really good béarnaise.
This is torture. I'm on a diet and can't stay away from the food threads.
Sensible post...
Freshly baked bread,lightly toasted and dripping in Thassian Pine Honey.This is making me seriously hungry.
Baguette
The first chunk of a just-purchased, freshly-baked baguette from a boulangerie, with a lump of perfectly ripe Camembert and a glass of cold lager.
ooooh - a toughie, but I'll have to go with
Hot chickpea chubbies served with warm piquant caponata, pokey almond marmara tapenade, finished with thyme, saffron and orange dressing.
help
what's a chubby? and why is this particular tapenade "pokey"?
haven't a feckin' notion
what I'm talking 'bout...
(it's all thanks to Capt Underpants)
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/does-it-come-with-chips
Tartiflette
A savoyard speciality which consists of spuds, ham, onions, cream and melted cheese, all hot as the ovens of Hades. Much like every savoyard speciality, really, just adjust the ratios a bit to give the different dishes. Anyway. On a cold lunchtime, with a beer handy, a handful of cornichons, the sun shining on the peaks and a bit of pain de campagne to mop up the juices, it's bloody lovely.
I can't wait to see what Fraser posts...
Indeed
My cold lager and poppadum combo seems very last century.
Don't get too excited
I know you probably want me to come up with something involving braised moth with par-boiled bulrush in a pomegranate sabayon, but no, it's probably the first couple of inches of cheap lager downed after 18 holes of low quality golf.
Nah,
because you'd know better than to braise a moth. Ruins the flavour - they just need a light searing on each side. And no-one parboils bulrush unless they want a serious case of the runs... boil the life out of it, then boil it some more.
You're right
My response was flippant. Apologies all round.
when you're hungover as fuck
and you've just about made it to lunchtime - the first sip of a very cold, very spicy Bloody Mary and a steak sandwich on toasted ciabatta with caramelised onions and a lick of Dijon mustard.
By the same token...
...the first bite of a double sausage and egg McMuffin when appallingly, comedically hungover. It's the cure-all. Not quite on the same culinary level, and I'm really not a great one for Maccy D's, but their breakfasts are the food of the gods when you've a bastard behind the eyes.
When I'm that hungover..
I want something which tastes reasonable going down and isn't going to taste too bad if it decides to come up.
Don't we all darling, don't we all....
*sighs*
Sunday. Pub.
Quality newspaper. Pint o'real ale. Slighlty hungover.
Roast beef dinner.
First mouthful = magic.
The first
pork scratching out of the bag does it for me.