A better day
I took my recycling in and scraped up enough cash to buy a decent bottle of wine, a 2004 Estate Erath Pinot Noir, and the ingredients for Steak Au Poivre. For the untrained this is basically a NY strip covered in mashed peppercorns seared and then served with a cognac cream reduction. I had this along side some fingerling potatoes and let me say this IT WAS REALLY FUCKING GOOD. Today was different than yesterday and the day before that and the 300 before them and thats a good thing.
For my mothers birthday on Sunday I will be making my world famous Espresso Creme Brulee’, this is something I havent made in about five years as I get tired of people demanding the recipe after they taste it. It is so good that even I put aside my aversion to eggs. If you are lucky I might take a picture of the final product, that way you can share in my greatness.
Espresso Creme Brulee? That’s a hard sell for me given the hate-on I have for eggs. Still, I’m confident that for the other 99.9% of the worls that it’s pretty damn good. Steak au poive sounds a hell of a lot better.
For what it’s worth, I’m having the best pizza. Pagliacci put out their Tomato Basil Pie, it’s a seasonal one so you gotta get it when you can. Damn fine …check it http://www.pagliacci.com/index.shtml