Our simple Christmas meal.

Hugnot

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Top round roast (roasted beast), $5.00 LB, rubbed with salt, baked on top of chopped garlic at 350 deg. internal temp. 140 F. Russet potatoes boiled until not hard then placed into pan with roast. Good wine vinegar, olive oil, garlic, mustard, salt & pepper for salad dressing, pure Kosher salt vs. mined salt containing various impurities thru hydrothermal contamination, good honest wine, Chilian 120 pinot noir, good honest American whisky, George Dickel, California garlic, & fresh ground pepper. Salad contained red leaf lettuce, avocado, grape tomatoes, & asparagus.

Back then the term "roasted beast" was used to describe roasted cow meat by WWII German war brides that escaped the awfully bad Walter Ulbricht & Erich Honecker authoritative regimes to live in our great USA. One of my relatives was a chef in a 4-star Boston hotel who cooked roasted beast on top of garlic, Auguste showed me how to cook nice simple meals. My Dad used to buy Chilian wine in a neighborhood wine shop & liked to chat with the nice young sweet blonde statuesque wine lady. He reviewed his high school Spanish.
 
Can one imagine metallic salts leached into salt mine NaCL over numerous millennia. Kosher salt - fit for cud chewing beasts that have cloven hooves - purity - best choice for smoker brines.
 
Chicken (bird meat) tonight. 120 Sauvignon Blanc. Scalloped potatoes. Salad - cherry tomatoes, avocado, lettuce, asparagus, garlic. Good peasant (working class) fare.
 
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