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  • Pizza, truffle

    Pizza, truffle

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  • Truffle, Souffle

    Truffle, Souffle

    Summer truffle dinner #3: Andrea made a truffle soufflé topped with fresh truffles of course. I chose a right bank Bordeaux from the Pomerol region. Ah, what food these morsels be! 😉

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  • Truffle, pasta

    Truffle, pasta

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  • Fried eggs, truffle

    Fried eggs, truffle

    I don’t normally even eat breakfast, but since we have all of this truffle…microplaning definitely brings out more of the flavor although using the truffle shaver looks better.

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  • Steak, truffle

    Steak, truffle

    Dry aged beef from Fatted Calf, dry brined (I.e. salted) for 24 hours (not sure how much difference that makes on dry aged beef). Since this is a big hunk of meat, I’ll reverse sear it on the BGE. Summer truffles overnighted from Provence from Les Pastras.

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  • Pride Mountain Vineyards

    Pride Mountain Vineyards

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    Our first wine tasting at Pride since before the pandemic started. We decided to do the Reserve tasting this time around which is a newer offering. Always a fantastic job by Andy to take care of us. The other couples were a lot of fun, both of whom were newbies at Pride. Turns out we…

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  • Empress by Boon

    Empress by Boon

    It’s Wednesday and an opportunity to celebrate Andrea b-day again! Nice ingredients and interesting flavors. The salmon was a bit of a miss (and we otherwise love King salmon), but otherwise everything was very enjoyable.

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  • Burger night

    Burger night

    This is how we like to make our burgers at home!

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  • Pork Shoulder
  • Sorrel

    Sorrel

    It’s Wednesday and an opportunity to celebrate Andrea b-day again! Nice ingredients and interesting flavors. The salmon was a bit of a miss (and we otherwise love King salmon), but otherwise everything was very enjoyable.

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