There's a great deli in my neighborhood, Romeo Jones, that every now and again stocks pastries that I make. I try to be a good customer, too, although never as regular as I would like since I'm usually walking the dog with no cash in my pockets when I walk by the shop.
Yesterday, though, my husband was walking the dog with me and he had some cash, so we stopped in. Not with the intention of buying anything with bubbles - just to get some cheese for our lunch, a pandoro for dessert, and some of their wonderful seeds since it's warming up and I'm starting to plan my vegetable garden (I got yellow beans and green peas).
But a bottle caught my eye - a crisp, citrusy-lemon prosecco from Case Bianche (their Vigna del Cuc) we had tried once before and really enjoyed. How could we leave that behind when it would go so well with our Italian dessert? Not that there was much left by the time we got to dessert, since it also went so well with the blue cheese, hazelnut, and honey-covered bruschetta that we ate while our lunch was on the grill outside.
It was a nice indulgence (especially since we drank bubbly the day before!) that didn't break the bank at £13.45 for the bottle. What better way to support my local economy? And what better way to celebrate our first BBQ of the year??
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Wait- Stop- You are making me jealous, because you that sounded like the most delicious barbeque. Blue cheese, hazelnut, and honey on bruschetta? Brilliant. Only problem for me is that hazelnuts do not get the credit they deserve in the US (I saw this great pumpkin pie recipe that included a hazelnut paste and never got around to making it). Anyway, I am also jealous of the thought of a BBQ. Now I know London winters are milder than these Boston ones, but how much warmer is it there compared to our "real feel" of -26 degrees F tonight. Never mind, don't tell me.
ReplyDeleteI won't tell you how warm, I'll just say that our British neighbours think we're slightly off for BBQing at this time of year. We tend to go with the theory of 'if the sun is out and we can sit without turning into popsicles, we can BBQ'.
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