Wednesday was, of course, Valentines Day. Going out to dinner on VD-Day has proven to be a disappointing event over the years, so we decided to just eat at home this year. I picked up some organic filets at Golden Gate Meat Market as well as some buttercream potatoes and red leaf lettuce at the Ferry Building produce market (the same folks who deliver our produce - see earlier post).
I made a red wine demiglace sauce for the filets (fa-bu-lous) and creamed the potatoes with milk, butter, grey salt, fresh rosemary from our herb garden, and Parmesan cheese. I dusted off a 1999 Folie A Deux Eschen Vineyard old vine zinfandel that had aged perfectly. All the tannens had softened and what was left was full of rich, dark fruit, a great mouth feel, and a brown sugary, oak-laden finish that could only be described as heavenly. It paired perfectly with the steaks and played very well with the demiglace. Then, of course, there was the salad, too.
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Nice. You ol' cookin bastard!
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