Sausage stew

Last week saw another sausage stew, along much the same lines as that noticed at reference 1. With the difference that this stew used fresh potatoes, three of them making about a pound in weight, rather than the usual left over potatoes. Which meant they had a better flavour, not the stale flavour which cooked potatoes seem to get very quickly after they go cold.

Served with pasta tubes and dressing-free salad.

Plus the wine from Nicolas, already noticed at reference 2, a 2016 Riesling from Kuehn, to be found at reference 3. Very good it was too. Under the watchful eyes of Terrence the Tyranosaur, picked up on a recent Ewell Village anti-clockwise.

On the back it said that it went very well with moderately ripe Munster cheese and with grub from the Levant generally. Bing claims the snap above for Munster, a well known cheese from Alsace, but not sold by Neal's Yard Dairy being foreign. Maybe the cheese shop off Marylebone High Street would do it.

Cork entirely fake. Some kind of plasticised goo in the interior, some kind of fake cork wrapper on the outside. But I dare say it does the job.

After a spot of Calvados, I went on the lose at a low scoring game of Scrabble.

While BH was not amused that the the speech involving 'let slip the dogs of war' turned out to have nothing to do with Henry V (of the achievements of the previous post at reference 4), being rather to be found in a speech by Antony in 'Julius Caesar', Act III, Scene 1. Possibly an error in the sense that the Romans neither cried havoc not used dogs of war. Although a famous film about Vikings involving  Kirk Douglas suggests that the ancient Britons did. 

With a spot of wine inside me, the speech was all it is cracked up to be. A speech first noticed in these pages getting on for ten years ago, at reference 5.

I went on to be amused by the affairs of Mr and Mrs Bagnet in 'Bleak House'. The military family which named their children for the barracks in which they happened to be born. And with Mr. Bagnet always buying two fowls on the occasion of his wife's birthday and making a bit of a hash of both buying and cooking them. She sits by and loyally says 'what a surprise' and 'how lovely' on every occasion. Good gentle fun which doesn't involve anyone getting hurt.

PS: more trouble at the indexes. Reference 2 is found by the search term 'hafod' but not by 'Nicolas' or 'nicolas'.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/07/bastides.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/09/hafod.html.

Reference 3: https://www.kuehn.fr/en/.

Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/09/abbey.html.

Reference 5: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/2012/06/rebirth.html.