life's simple pleasures

One of the many things I am thankful for is the strong influence the French Culinary Institute has had on my wife. Her take on gastronomy has decidedly veered towards Old-World flavour and presentation since coming back from culinary education abroad. This is what we had for dinner at home yesterday. Leg of lamb encrusted with a parsley accented rub of breadcrumb & mediterranean sea salt, served with seasonal green salad with seedless grapes, blue cheese, and walnuts over a lemon tarragon dressing. The wine of choice for the dinner was a new world cabernet sauvignon. being a relatively young wine, the tannins competed quite well with the gamey flavour of the lamb. Dessert was a single 10-gram block of Nama dark chocolate infused with Henessy, which was hand-carried by the people of Royce from Japan. No, we were not celebrating any special occasion. It was just a regular Sunday dinner at home. My wife often says "who else among your friends regularly have fine-dine dinners at home?" And to this I now reply, "who among your friends have their husbands import Nama chocolate by Royce?" oh, life's simple pleasures... again.