Beauty Cooking

Cecile, a friend of mine 74 years old French woman lives now in Jerusalem.
We are friends at about 10 years. She likes to have a supper with me and to tell stories of her life. All my knowledge about France, all my love to French cooking and wine – everything is her evening stories.

She is from Bourgogne, Dijon, from the area of famous French wine, French musturd, asparagus (also French) and escargot. They say there – The good dinner is better than a beautiful dress.

For ten years I eat the dishes which names are sounds like music for me.
- Beuf a la bourguignonne – Beef in the bourgogne manner – beef in sauce of red wine ,cognac.
- Lapin a la moutarde – rabbit in musturd sauce (famous dijon)
- Jambon persille – Boiled ham in jelly with parsley , coq au vin – cockerel in wine.
I tried everything except escargot – Cecile doesn’t like it.
I became a specialist in Franch cuisine and different sorts of wine – Chablis – white Chardonnay – it’s for fish; Montrachet, Nuits- St Georges – red, for beef; Clos Micot , Clos de penaux , Le Rugiens , Pouilly – Fuisse – golden yellow, green wine – for white meat, fish and cheese.
But it’s not a matter; the matter is there was something I didn’t know yet. It was something strange, not Bourgogne, but still French.
The matter was evening with Fat Bastard.

It was really unexpected. It was really against all the classical knowledge about French taste. Still it was good, it was French, it was Chardonnay wine. Some friend brings it from south as the funny present and it obtained my hart more then all the famous sorts of wine. I began interesting in name history and found out a lot of stories and a lot of unusual wine names. So it was the end of my snooty history, now, I think I really interesting in wine.

There is a great choice when it comes to buying coffee machines so make sure you spend some time looking at the different coffee machines on offer. When I went out and looked at coffee machines, I wanted a few things from my coffee machine. I did however want it to make many different types of coffee rather than just your average normal coffee; I wanted espressos, lattes and cappuccinos. This did bring the price up quite a bit but I thought it was well worth it as I would not need to go to the local coffee house everyday from my coffee fix, also another good thing about owning my own coffee machine is I can offer my guest fine quality coffee whenever I choose too. Of the many different coffee machines the coffee machine I bought recently has a 6 month guarantee with it, however I will probably not need this as these machines are designed for coffee houses and use on a regular basis, so hence I imagine this coffee machine will last me forever. These are however a luxury product and don’t fool yourself into thinking it will save you money as it will not. You can however go for the cheaper option when it comes to coffee machines, these coffee machines will not cost you half as much as a professional coffee machine but it will definitely produce some lovely coffee for you. Anyway that’s my advice, hope I could help and have fun choosing your new coffee machine.

Do you like Asparagus as I do?
Asparagus has been used from early times as a vegetable and medicine.The asparagus is difficult for growing up, and it is considered one of delicacies of the vegetable world, with intensive taste and the high price. Asparagus is low in calories, contains no fat or cholesterol, and is very low in sodium. It is a good source of folic acid, potassium, dietary fiber and rutin.There is about 100 kinds of an asparagus, among them a French asparagus of violet color, English and American – green. The Spanish and Danish asparagus white as it is grown up underground and is cut off more often as soon as arrows appear over the earth.

Traditional way of cooking asparaguses – to put a bunch in a high pan and to cook in several centimeters of water. However, the special pan for this purpose is required. I prefer the more simple way – quickly to boil in salty boiling water and to wash out in flowing cold water. Thus the asparagus remains crackling.
In water the asparagus cooks 3-5 minutes, and steaming – 4-5 minutes.
Serve it with Dutch sauce. As this is one of the best sauces ever made for asparagus.
I’ll give you one of recipes.
The egg yolks ( 2 big eggs ) must be beaten thoroughly first with salt and pepper .
After that boil 1 desert spoon of lemon juice and 1 desert spoon of vinegar. Let it cool.
Then add the liquid to the well-beaten eggs , also with 4 ounces ( at about 100 gr) of good butter . Set the stew – pan on a very slow fire , and stir the liquid until it is about as thick as cream , immediately remove it . Now add 2 beaten whites of eggs stir all well with the whisk .

It is believed that only very rich people can afford having a wine cellar in order to keep there their wine collection. The majority of people think so just because they have shallow knowledge about wines and the methods of their storing. Many people think that a special cave is necessary where there is always a definite temperature that doesn’t allow wines to turn sour. Actually, this is true but not always a necessary step in building a cellar. Everything depends on the wine itself and what kind of wine you are going to store there. That is why usually two kinds of wine cellars are differentiated: collectors’ wine cellar that contains the most expensive wines, like Warre’s Port 1977 Vintage Port and just a wine cellar where you store your favourite wines.

So if you decided to organize a wine cellar – there are some rules to remember. If you do not want to spoil the most expensive wine you should remember that it must always be within the contact of the cork. This is important because otherwise even the most exclusive wine will be destroyed by the oxygen. Also keep the bottles horizontally and not just place them vertically. You must keep all the bottles in the dark as ultraviolet will spoil the ingredients and the wine will start to go sour.

Cellar where such exclusive wines as Ferreira Vintage 1997 Porto Wine will be kept must be free from any type of smells. The latter can easily sneak into the bottle and the cork will not be the problem for this. Clean environment is what should be presented in any wine cellar. So you see it is not difficult to organize your own wine cellar that’s why you just need to buy wine online and place it there.