Though it happened over a month ago, I figure I should write about the great Bourguignone dinner that never was before I delete the menu from the “next on the menu” section and have it disappear forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had invited my friends Alistair and Suzanna to dinner a week after I had Eddie & Arthur over for a Bermudian dinner. Sometimes I get overly ambitious which proves to be a mistake. I decided to skip on the other “B” cuisines and go directly to Burgundian because I wasn’t confident on the recipes I had for the other cuisines. With only a week to prepare, I didn’t have enough time to research enough to be confident that the Bolivian or Bhutanese menu I’d prepare be both enjoyable and manageable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was not as easy to come up with a Burgundian menu as I first thought. It was a given that I’d serve Beef Bourguignonne as a main dish, but finding appetizers was harder. I didn’t want to repeat the same ingredients on different dishes, which meant no mushrooms in the appetizer and no cheese as I wanted to serve a cheese course. That finally didn’t happen so I decided on some cheese pastries. Dessert was even more difficult, I couldn’t find anything suitable save a bread pudding (Mike hates bread pudding) and decided to serve strawberries in wine as we were in strawberry season, though I wasn’t very confident on them. I never could find any vegetables to serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The dinner didn’t come out great. The store-bought pate de campagne<\/strong> was great (oh, how I’ll miss pate for the next few months!), but I don’t think Mike liked the eggs Dijon style.<\/strong> I couldn’t quite figure out how the Burgundian cheese pastries<\/strong> were supposed to be, but they sounded like empanadas so I used empanada shells, the cheese filling was OK but not as good as plain cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The braised Boeuf Bourguignone<\/strong> should have been great, and it would have been if I hadn’t let it run out of liquid in the oven. I tried to save it by adding more wine (Cab, I didn’t have any burgundy left) and stewing it for a while, but it wasn’t that great that night. The next day, though, it was like mana from heaven, soooo delicious, convincing me that next time I make it I have to let it rest for a day.
I never found the Burgundian cheeses and never got to dessert, probably a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For alas, not only did my dinner fail but my guests forgot to come! They are also new parents and the invitation had been extended a month before, so it was easy to understand how they could forget. I have to admit that as much as I wanted to see them, I wasn’t completely upset that they didn’t make it – this was not a meal I was proud to serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m planning to cook another Burgundian dinner when I get to it, so this menu won’t go on my webpage. Here I leave it just as a memory:
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Pate de Campagne with Cornichons
Eggs Dijon Style with mixed greens
Cheese pastries
Beef Bourguignonne with egg noodles
Vanilla Ice Cream with Strawberries in Wine
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