Sounds funny, but being from our usually dry Tamworth rainy days, even when one is on holidays still brings me so much joy and today being so high up in the clouds and right
“IN” the weather certainly is a great rainy day treat.
Our table for the afternoon so let the food games begin!
Our 1st game is a game Sandy and I like to call … WHY!!!!
Why? would you drown perfectly good shaved truffle with a perfectly good cocktail … love truffles and will always have them if they are on the menu but today my friends in the words of
my Italian mate … it is a big Nhoooooo!!!
After our game of “why” 🤔 … we both sat back and watched this beautiful rainy day go round and round and it was made so much easier with the help of a little glass of Risky Business Riesling from Mount Barker WA.
With our glasses in hand we share the slow cooked, shredded Wagyu Beef Cigars with a yummy roasted garlic aioli.
The fatness of the wagyu soon melted with the crisp finish and fruit forwardness of this stunning Mount Barker Riesling.
The Cigars … hot, tasty and had a super crispy fine pastry.
We also shared, much to the amusement of our waiter the
Curry chickpea and potato soup
with a duck rillette and truffle foam.
Well maybe it is not the sort of dish to share but we wanted to try a few dishes and didn’t want to fill up on a soup.
The smell of truffle when it hit the table took me back to my recent Italian truffling days with Doriano.
Hey … when we re plated it, it still looked like it came right from the hands of kitchen … just with more of the yummy ingredients being revealed.
Those little potatoes still with a bite and the curry was delicate and moorish on a winters day … but the duck rillette and the truffle foam were both the star attractions.⭐️ ⭐️
Had a glass of Evoi Chardonnay to go with the curry soup, again from the Margaret River and they matched each other perfectly.
To finish and as you all know I do love older wines, so I really wanted to try the 2013 Petrosa Cab Sauv (it was the oldest wine on the list that was at a $ value that was still realistic!!!!) but it didn't come by the glass, so as I always carry the backpack with bottle stops and caps we can always smuggle it out if we have too!
But we didn't have to, the rainy afternoon just drifted away and so did the wonderfull wine.
We again shared the next dish … The Duck.
I’m sure the waiter is thinking that these poor little old pensioners must be out for the once in a year treat 😂
But it is how we like to eat, little plates over a long time with great wine and good conversation.
Dish of the day for us both … Sandy loves duck and today I loved duck!.Today it was served just over pink, hot and on a “hot plate” which is always a dining treat.
The braised red cabbage for some acidity and sweetness, more of that wonderfull duck rillette in a little ball wrapped in spinach. Quenelle of beetroot purée added a bit of earthiness to the dish and a few stewed blackberries with a rich Jus topped it all off as a stunning well rounded plate of food.
