pretending to be french

date: Jan 22

drink: Coppola Claret

what: CSA Pickup day and pre-birthday gaming with J

Winter CSA only comes once each month which means that when it comes, you get a TON...

for the past 2 deliveries, i've been sending J the list of what will soon be in my fridge... last month he suggested that i make him his mom's latkes... this time, he was too overcome with the amount of garlic that would be coming (which would be in addition to the garlic that was still left from last month) and what we could possibly ever do with it all...

that prompted an email of 'how about i stop and get some bread and cheese and wine and we roast some garlic?'

i swear to you, more beautiful words have never been said... there is nothing i like more than wine/cheese/bread dinner and with the addition of roasted garlic??? amazing. in fact, i tell some of the girls at CSA about my evening plans and they declare their jealousy over my impending dinner and suggest that it sounds like i have a pretty good boyfriend...

so anyway, are you getting the image? the sophistication, romance and movie-scene-ness of it all? i mean, your mental image totally has snow falling outside and a roaring fireplace crackling in the background, right? perhaps even, if you squint, the eiffel tower??? i mean, he even showed up with flowers for chrissake! (that part is for real - the snow, paris skyline and fireplace are not...)

is this where i burst your bubble and tell you about how i nearly burnt the house down???

lets just say this - when roasting garlic, it should be brushed with a little olive oil. not doused. and if you accidentally do douse it, make sure you dont then accidentally drop the garlic baker on its side, allowing the oil to run out of the baker and onto the floor of the oven. cause there will be smoke. and smoke alarms will buzz. and it will totally ruin that whole mental image you had just a paragraph or two ago...

so, cheese and bread and wine it was. sans garlic. though we did add some awesome CSA jam to the mix... which almost made up for the whole smoky house thing that we had going on...