Beer and food!
Tonight's dinner was coq au biere, based pretty tightly on a recipe for white coq au vin from a magazine (recipe called for Riesling, to be precise), cooked with Unibroue's Don de Dieu.
The chicken came out nicely, with the sauce a little richer than I'm used to, so the flavors seem relatively muted. The recipe also had steps and ingredients we (or at least I) didn't want to be bothered with, and merely skipping those led to some infelicities (mainly, how long it took to get the fat out of the sauce), but those are things that we can adjust for when we make this in the future.
Don de Dieu is a Belgian strong pale ale in style, and it's nice and fruity but dry enough that it played the same role as dry white wine would have played in this. It's bitter and dry enough that nothing came out tasting horribly sweet, and there's some substantial flavor that was more than adequate to stand up for itself.
A very late dinner, and probably more work than it absolutely needed to be, but a very tasty one.
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| Coq au biere and Don de Dieu |
Tonight's dinner was coq au biere, based pretty tightly on a recipe for white coq au vin from a magazine (recipe called for Riesling, to be precise), cooked with Unibroue's Don de Dieu.
The chicken came out nicely, with the sauce a little richer than I'm used to, so the flavors seem relatively muted. The recipe also had steps and ingredients we (or at least I) didn't want to be bothered with, and merely skipping those led to some infelicities (mainly, how long it took to get the fat out of the sauce), but those are things that we can adjust for when we make this in the future.
Don de Dieu is a Belgian strong pale ale in style, and it's nice and fruity but dry enough that it played the same role as dry white wine would have played in this. It's bitter and dry enough that nothing came out tasting horribly sweet, and there's some substantial flavor that was more than adequate to stand up for itself.
A very late dinner, and probably more work than it absolutely needed to be, but a very tasty one.
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