Jul 23 2008
Party for Two
I’m on holiday now (a long weekend in Croatia starting tomorrow but with a day off first today) so to celebrate we had cocktails last night:
However it was only a Tuesday night, so they were in fact Virgin Cocktails- Gentle Sea Breezes to be precise. Going the whole hog with the crushed ice and the sprig of mint on top meant you got all the sensory aspects of a cocktail- woo, colours!- but without sliding gently under the table later on.
Dinner was inspired by a gift from my boss, JPW, who appeared at work with a bag of micro potatoes for me and a growing pot of Sarriette. This was a herb I had never come across (although the smell was familiar, in a herby way) and shock horror, there was no Wikipedia entry for it! A bit of further digging suggests that its English name is in fact Summer Savoury. In any case JPW suggested that it was best had with beans; as we had some green beans needing used up in the fridge that’s what I did.
So, tea consisted of: gruyère and cumin bread; fabulously melty camembert; teeny tiny anya and charlotte potatoes dressed in walnut oil, white wine vinegar, chives, salt and pepper; fine beans in sarriette and butter and some vine tomatoes. It felt like a right proper party! I even wore a dress while I cooked it all. We both agreed that the only thing wrong was that we were not enjoying it all on a verandah some where in the warm summer air. Such is life- the sunset was still gorgeous.
