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You might be a foodie if...your TW doesn't know how to cook Western food, so you cook your own BD meal because BK just don't cut it for a birthday dinner! 5555

Wagyu ribeye, medium rare, steamed broccoli and cauliflower with a jalapeno cheese sauce, mushrooms sauteed in butter with garlic and flambied with brandy, and a tossed garden salad. Wine was a 2015 Tuscana Sangiovese. Not a bad meal, and nowhere I know in Udon Thani you can get anything like it.

--KB

That was a rock on dinner.. until you got to the gas guzzler you were inhaling..
PLEASE an amarone.. or at the least a Barolo.. SOMETHING with a wiff of Italy..
If you are skint.,. scrape out a "wine bottled at the chateau" from France.... I'm pretty sure we dilute what you are drinking to clear the water tanks.. )

Addendum.. you were so close with the mushrooms.. a bit of chopped parsley.. and a squirt of lemon juice.. and you had them Belgium style..

PS:.. Herpe Boffday you old fart..

Yeah, the wine was a bit on the weak side. But buying wine in Thailand is always a coin flip and you will ALWAYS pay more than it is worth. I was looking for a decent Valpolicella, but decided the TW would prefer a Sangiovese. I got her a French Bordeaux for her BD and she thought it was a bit heavy, so figured she might like the lighter Italian wine. Turns out, she liked the Bordeaux better, and I personally would have preferred a Valpolicella or St. Emilion. Ah well, such is life...you can't please them 100% of the time!

As for the mushrooms, I've never worried about Belgium style, or any other style. I enjoy them the way I make em.

Thanks for the BD wishes. I think I am now officially old. 5555

--KB

Hah.. we are wine agree-ers.. I learnt 5 years ago.. not to waste a decent Valpol on my wife.. she would chug it like a bacardi breezer.. and conk out for 12 hours.. pah!

A St Emilion.. with a couple of hours breath.. I miss that shit for real..

As for the mushrooms.. I'm happy with your style.. bag em and send by scooter..

You were old before you even GOT to this dinner.. the joy of senility..

I had to check out how many LLLs in senility..really..

The first sign of senility is not being able to remember how to spell senility! 5555

I miss decent wines at decent prices. Wine here is just ridiculous. A $10 bottle of wine sets you back $30, and a $30 bottle of wine runs around $100. You cannot enjoy a GOOD bottle of wine here as the price just makes it hurt too much. (unless you are into pain, which is ok if that's what you enjoy 5555) I can get St. Remy brandy that lasts for a week or two for under 800 baht, but a decent bottle of wine that you drink in one night costs the same or more.

My TW is a cheap date: 1 glass and she is ready for bed. Unfortunately, to sleep. 55555 She had never had an alcoholic drink until she met me. I guess I am a bad man for introducing her to it.