Sunday, 3 June 2012

Winter Warmer - Burning Love


We have a few traditions with several of our friends – majority of them revolving around dinner parties and seasonal events. Always known to tread the path of completely over doing it on some nights (food and wine included) the last time we tried to stick to 3 courses only. We succeeded - although my friend’s Danish dish of Burning Love made up for a couple of courses I think! We started with delicious Tasmanian Spring Bay mussels, just with garlic, onion and creamy sauce and crunchy bread from Hardware Society in the city.


Then came the Burning Love. This is one of Denmark’s national dishes and consists of crispy fried pork belly, of which the fat that renders off the belly is then poured into the mash potato, along with milk to make it creamy. The crispy pork is served on top of the mash and we had ours served along with pickled heirloom beetroot, roasted shallots and balsamic roasted baby beets.


Dessert was little meringues, dipped in dark coverture chocolate with raspberries.


The night ended with dancing around the living room. So maybe we didn’t succeed in not going over the top with wine. I’ll spare you photos of that.

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