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Tag Archives: Salad
Chicken Caesar Salad, Pinot Blanc and Macon Villages
The chicken salad was D’s version of chicken Caesar salad with avocado as well as chicken. The dressing is a light mayonnaise and a generous sprinkling of Parmesan. This needs a white wine that is fruity and perhaps full rather … Continue reading
Chicken Salads – White or Rose?
Roast chicken for two is followed, as night follows day, by two chicken salads – an excellent opportunity to sample the contrasting merits of white and pink wines. The cos lettuce salad with avocado and lots of grated parmesan we … Continue reading
Chicken and Bacon Salad in the Pink
The sun came out after a day of downpour and we had a robust chicken salad on a cool but sunny evening. The chunks of chicken lie on a bed of spinach leaves and are accompanied by small pieces of … Continue reading
For Chicken Salad or Sipping – Garganega
Another chicken salad, this time D’s very mild version of Coronation Chicken where the curry is just a hint and yoghurt dominates the sauce, and the usual problem of what to drink with it. I wanted to try a newly … Continue reading
Chicken Salad and Pinot Blanc
After the roast come the salads. This was chicken with bacon on a bed of spinach leaves – quite strong tastes, but still a salad. Having run out of Pinot Gris, I fell back on some Pinot Blanc, which I … Continue reading
Ham Salad and Two Rieslings
It was a big joint of ham and the weather remains mild so the salads continue. Tonight’s was distinguished by a Waldorf salad, a particular favourite of mine. I had been looking for an opportunity to try some Rieslings and … Continue reading
Ham Salad & Sylvaner
The previous day we had boiled ham with lentils which I last mentioned on Christmas Eve. With it we drank Pinot Gris. Tonight, with the cold ham D produced a combination of potato salad, beetroot, carrot rapé and leaves. We … Continue reading
Chicken Salad and Testing the Limits of Chardonnay
We sat down again to D’s subtle version of Coronation Chicken, this time with a new Chardonnay – Gisborne Chardonnay 2008 made by Montana in New Zealand. This proudly proclaims that it is unoaked on the front label and cost … Continue reading
Viognier Follow-up
A second chicken salad, this time with bacon and a vinegar and bacon-fat dressing, was also a success with the viogniers; their fruitiness handled the stronger tastes perfectly well. We did not change our evaluation of the first two, but … Continue reading
A Viognier Taste-off
In the distant past Viognier was known only for producing the rare and expensive Condrieu from the Northern Rhone. When I say expensive I mean starting at around £30 a bottle and twice that for a top one. But viognier … Continue reading
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