Snowed In, Just Like You

Snowed up, snowed in, snowed out, like the rest of you tonight. Lucky for me I laid in some larder for the wk end, as well as a decent bottle of Pinot Noir and a Remy Martin VSOP Cognac. When your housemates are two ten year old girls, you get to drink it by yourself, restraintfully of course, with and after dinner which was penne w/ Lois' home canned tomatoes and onions and peppers and mushrooms, plenty of garlic too.

The cognac is really good w/ espresso on the side. Cognac means perfume in French( I think), so be sure to sniff it before you drink it. That is why a SNIFter is recommended.

Shortly I will discover how it goes w/ popcorn balls. That is the end result of an evening w/ ten yr old girls. It is a good way to be snowed up, snowed in and snowed out. It will be Katrina's recipe of butter, marshmallows, and of course popcorn. Katrina is my daughter's guest tonight. We were having a snack earlier of soda crackers and muenster cheese and she said remember when we had rosemary crackers and jarlsberg cheese last summer at the Lake in Wisconsin? I didn't and then did. She has promise when it comes to food. She also saw a big toe emerge from under the door of a haunted house last summer in Wisconsin. She screamed and so did we. She intends to be a cardiac surgeon when she grows up.

I read about Kobe Beef in the most recent issue of Gourmet Magazine tonight. You know, the lovingly raised, hand massaged, beer fed beef cattle of Japan, the one that is all the rage at high end restaurants? Well, turns out they are confined to individual pens so they can't turn around or move too much in order to keep the meat tender. They lay in their own manure, which I suppose is better than laying in someone else's manure, and the massage is really the cowhand using straw to rub the manure off the animal. So much for legend, if the guy that wrote about it is right.