Re: Dinner at the Wolseley

Hi Michael

I thought that would get a rapid reply!

Well, when you're only 20 miles (30 km) from the restaurant, it's a lot quicker and easier than to do the 2000km to Vienna!

What surprised us, in fact, was their presence at all. We were discussing the menu again on our way to Wisley (Royal Horticultural Society Gardens) today, and we agreed that the place was filling a niche for good Burgerliche cooking. N pretensions to Haute Cuisine, but homely dishes well done.

Yup, sorry.

Röster? Would that mean baked in some way? What I described as compôte might well have been that in fact. Stewed plums, I suppose.

Woud they have a lot of cinnamon in, in Austria? All the best Ian (To reply by email PLEASE don't use "Reply to" but use my name at wanadoo.fr) Thanks.

Don't exaggerate, 19380 Forgès to 1180 Vienna is 1539.3 km, according to

Yes.

No. It's just the name. Austrian German cuisine terms are extremely strange. What we call "Lungenbraten" (rôti of lung) is, in fact the fillet of beef.

Yes.

Well, cinnamon would be used: 1 piece on 1 kg Zwetschken (plus 2 cloves plus 250 ml water plus juice and parings of 1 lemon).

Röster is somewhere halfway between mousse (powidl) and compote (1 kg zwetschken, 125 ml water, 125 g sugar).

Data from "Das große Sacher-Kochbuch".

M.

mozzarella, and

Two words I don't know. "Trevise"--is that perhaps the same as Radicchio di Treviso?

"Bitsas." I have no no idea what that is.

Can you help?

Like Ken, I'm perplexed

I have to say, I realize it's all the rage to only use Vialone nano or carnaroli these days, but a QUALITY arborio always does quite nicely in our house.

Thanks for the notes. The Pieropan Soave is usually quite dependable - Soave got a bad rep in US due to cheap cr#$py examples, but can be quite good.

Enjoy the rest of your stay! Dale

Dale Williams Drop "damnspam" to reply

"Dale Williams" in a total quizzical asked........

Without wanting to put words in Ian's mouth (not sanitary in the least) let me give the kiwi interpretation.

Bitsa = bits of ? (bits of this and bits of that!)

Actually, we (slangingly) call a mixed breed dog a "bitsa" (bits of chihuahua, bits of great dane and a bit of a laugh!!!)

No doubt, if the original author has some other meaning, then even I will delighted to hear his translation.

Oh, sorry. Lord St H was right. Bits of this & bits of that. So the salad contained a number of other ingredients which I didn't remember, and hoped to be able to conceal my bad memory by using the slang expression.

It was difficult for me to pitch that sentence correctly. I wasn't intending to be damning the dish which was excellently executed and better than most I used to have. That said, I prefer Carnaroli as I find the balance of creaminess/al-dentitude to be better, and the flavour deeper.

It was exactly what we required of it! Actually, we got a little frisson there, as they had a Marcel Deiss wine called "Burg", of which I'd not heard. I hoped against hope that they might have made a type for Altenberg, but they hadn't. Sigh.

Will do, Dale, thanks. Yesterday was roast venison fillets at home, with a nice little Italian red that my brother picked up in Italy. "Sell me a wine you're proud of." He got Tres Pigne 2000 made from (I think) Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso Being incredibly ignorant about Italian wines, I have been able to work out that it's from Friuli's Grave area, but that's all. Bottled by tha Azienda Pradio Felettis di Bicinicco, whatever that is. Nice soft wine, just like my SIL likes them. Preceded by a mouthful of greasy foie from Brive, and finished with home made chocolate velvet ice cream, a meal fit for a president.

All the best Ian (To reply by email PLEASE don't use "Reply to" but use my name at wanadoo.fr) Thanks.

the

remember,

slang

Sorry, I missed it. Slang is different in different places; I'd never heard "bitsas" before.