Port, caramel and salt
So, I've never drank much port. I've never really had the opportunity and when I did - I didn't know! I swear I didn't know what I was missing! Recently I've had the opportunity to try a few and the combo that really gets my taste buds excited is tawny port paired with salted caramel.
Nathan took me out tonight for a rather more extravegant date than is our usual (in a bid to save my sanity, but it was too late :D ), and lo! did they have chocolate truffle cake with a salted caramel sauce! And so I went for it and ordered a 20 year old tawny port and wow! it was like I would imagine drinking amber would be like if reality wasn't so pesky (yes I was that kid who stuck everything in my mouth) - smooth, caramel-y, honey, sweet-but-not-sweet, not too dry, not too fruity - complex, and with an inner glow like a piece of amber. I could spend all evening trying to describe it and not be able to.
In short I had the HP Lovecraft of ports. ;-)
I need to host an evening of Port, sea salt caramels, and my coup-de-grace, from-scratch butterscotch pudding. Oh.. and some other food would be ok too...
Nathan took me out tonight for a rather more extravegant date than is our usual (in a bid to save my sanity, but it was too late :D ), and lo! did they have chocolate truffle cake with a salted caramel sauce! And so I went for it and ordered a 20 year old tawny port and wow! it was like I would imagine drinking amber would be like if reality wasn't so pesky (yes I was that kid who stuck everything in my mouth) - smooth, caramel-y, honey, sweet-but-not-sweet, not too dry, not too fruity - complex, and with an inner glow like a piece of amber. I could spend all evening trying to describe it and not be able to.
In short I had the HP Lovecraft of ports. ;-)
I need to host an evening of Port, sea salt caramels, and my coup-de-grace, from-scratch butterscotch pudding. Oh.. and some other food would be ok too...