Playing safe

After the trauma of cooking the Œufs en Meurette on Saturday, it is with a certain sense of relief that today I’m back to making an old favourite – Chicken & Mushroom Pie. (The Fox cooked yesterday – a creamy smoked salmon kedgeree, mmm mmm.) The pie filling is made. I’m just waiting for it to cool down before I cover it with pastry, ready to cook as a pie this evening.

The Œufs en Meurette did come out reasonably well. The egg whites did tend to disperse somewhat around the sauce but there was definitely 4 separate eggs, each with its own yolk. As for the taste, it sent us straight back to Burgundy, especially to that garden at the Hôtel de la Poste in Beaune. We have fond memories of that holiday.

 

Hotel de la Poste, Beaune

As for the recipe, I may well have another go. A bit of practice, I’m sure, could perfect it.

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On Saturday we ventured out to buy some fresh bread to have with our eggs. The rich red wine sauce would need mopping up, we knew. After a quick dive to the local shops, we thought we’d pop along to the golf club for a drink & maybe bump into some friends.

As we drove along, the windscreen wipers had to be speeded up to cope with the amount of rain falling due to Storm Brian. On the promenade the rain was being swept across the road in great mists. Then, suddenly a large heavy plank came hurtling down from some scaffolding around one of the multi-storeyed buildings. We swerved to avoid it. At that point we decided it was too dangerous to go on further & turned off the prom, more inland & homeward.

Certainly here Storm Brian was worse than the feared remnants of Hurricane Ophelia. As the former was only a storm we hadn’t bothered to put loose rubbish boxes inside the garage as we had for the hurricane. Clearly we’d got that one wrong.