Gourmets

In the beginning the South Africa interested me just for one tourism object – penguin colony near the Boulders beach, now there’s one more relevant aspect – wines.

Chardonnay is the most popular white grape breed in whole world. It pretty good can accommodate different climatic conditions and soils, and gladly submit different transformations and wine maturation processes, therefore it has earned popularity between vine cultivators, winemakers and consumers.

This month we are fond of Sicily, because it is one of the places on world map which I would like to once see. Initially hearing the word Sicily, I associate it with the Mafia, the name of Carleone (the godfather of New York Sicilian Mafia), constantly active volcano Etna, the sun and the sea. In fact it is the largest island in the Mediterranean with around 5 million inhabitants, the capital Palermo, a jellyfish with three legs in the coat of arms, which symbolises the relatively triangular shape of the island and a long and rich history of several thousand years BC.

Inspired by the last measure of wine, which was dedicated to wine and food compatibility, and got the recipe from Larisa, preparing a chocolate cake. It is very simple with the heavenly taste of bitter chocolate, but at the same time just a bit meandering baking process. Made this cake twice, to achieve a smooth brown surface without the brittle-type fracture (needed to learn what the true oven temperature was, and which is the right pan for cakes careful removal from the baking dish). I like that that we can dispense without the flour.

From the first episodes of the story I realized that for these wines and the wine regions will be much easier to write, because it is much freer from the canons. California wines up nine tenths of all the big American wines. The climate is rather grateful - warm and sunny most of the year. The basic principle - simplicity, clarity of the wine user.

Feeling inspired from Martins Ritins broadcast “What could be better than this?”, where you could know about original fish, today we made haddock. It is white meat fish and comes from Iceland cold and deep waters. Not cheap and fat, but very tasty.

Shortly after Ligo night holidays, so tummy didn’t forget, how it was spoiled, my friend welcomed me in her house on cocktail evening. In attention focus was strawberry daikiri. Day, in weather prognoses tidings, was not very good – cloudy and even was delicate rain. So we drank cold daikiri and thought, that there wasn’t anything better in hot summer evening. So, hot days and evenings are here. Let’s shake some strawberry daikiri!