What are you eating/drinking right now?

[LitNetIsGreat]

I have just eaten spaghetti with the proverbial Chianti: in this case Chianti Colli Senesi 2009 from Panezio of San Gimignano in Siena. Yesterday, an Italian woman of my acquaintance bought me a bottle of Bordeaux wine which I don't usually drink on account of its after effects for those who eat little meat. This, coupled with the Chateauneuf du Pape from neighbours for taking care of their cat, means that I shall be partaking of Quorn pseudo meat dishes in the near future. Stay tuned to this thread.

You have me fancing red wine now, there is nothing better than Italian food, I'm off to have a good Italian meal out this week sometime (half-term is pure joy).

After a couple of ciders I'm going to open a bottle of wine and have a couple of glasses. It's a Riverview white, decent for the price I believe and on goes another Woody - Cassandra's Dream, a recent one that looks good but has average reviews.

What do you mean the after effects for those who eat little meat? Does Bordeaux wine have that effect, surely not?

Edit: the wine is good, the film is not so good.

[Emil Miller]

You have me fancing red wine now, there is nothing better than Italian food, I'm off to have a good Italian meal out this week sometime (half-term is pure joy).

After a couple of ciders I'm going to open a bottle of wine and have a couple of glasses. It's a Riverview white, decent for the price I believe and on goes another Woody - Cassandra's Dream, a recent one that looks good but has average reviews.

What do you mean the after effects for those who eat little meat? Does Bordeaux wine have that effect, surely not?

Edit: the wine is good, the film is not so good.

Yes, I'm afraid that a wine that was specifically produced for meat eaters is too heavy when eating small non-meat meals. When I was a relatively enthusiastic meat eater, I drank many a bottle of Bordeaux red. Now that I am a non foodie, I find that Burgundy is just about all that I am able to handle apart from the Italian reds. However, thanks to the introduction of Quorn, I shall be drinking Bordeaux again in the near future.

Both Woody Allen and wine are not to be trusted unless you are automatically sceptical of the one and informed of the other. All wines that have names associated with scenic localities ie. Riverview, Blossom Hill etc., unless it concerns the area in which it is grown, should be avoided by the scrupulous wine drinker.

Tonight I had beer, but tomorrow I have to go to the supermarket and hope to pick up a suitable wine for my evening meal.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Yes, I'm afraid that a wine that was specifically produced for meat eaters is too heavy when eating small non-meat meals. When I was a relatively enthusiastic meat eater, I drank many a bottle of Bordeaux red. Now that I am a non foodie, I find that Burgundy is just about all that I am able to handle apart from the Italian reds. However, thanks to the introduction of Quorn, I shall be drinking Bordeaux again in the near future.

Both Woody Allen and wine are not to be trusted unless you are automatically sceptical of the one and informed of the other. All wines that have names associated with scenic localities ie. Riverview, Blossom Hill etc., unless it concerns the area in which it is grown, should be avoided by the scrupulous wine drinker.

Tonight I had beer, but tomorrow I have to go to the supermarket and hope to pick up a suitable wine for my evening meal.

Yes I see regarding the wine.

The Woody Allen film was not his best, but the wine was pretty good - Hungarian! They are no Chablis but for under a fiver they are decent red and white wines, they are also incidentally, the house wines served at the Crucible and Lyceum theatres in town and once again what I am currently drinking - the white. I would generally agree with the names though, sounds fair game.

I am coming to the end of Woody's catalogue of films just about, one in the post and a few not available on DVD. I have now seen the vast majority of them (all but about 4/5) and enjoyed the ride and will continually dip into them. My brother has stopped receiving them from me as he says that when you have seen 50, you have seen them all. I don't know what he means.

I am thinking about looking into French cinema a bit again (as well as taking advantage of the Igmar Bergman festival that's coming to the showroom in a bit). I have ordered the Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources double which has excellent ratings (bought because I got sucked into my daily Amazon spam) and a storyline which sounds interesting. Who knows, maybe I'll try and pick up a little French and fail again as well? The last time I could nearly order a sandwich.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...F8&me=&seller=

[Emil Miller]

Well here I am, having just finished a salad and some snacks with a bottle of white wine that should strictly have been reserved for fish; namely Muscadet 2009. Waitrose have put up some interesting new wines but they are 2010 vintage, which is too early for even white wine to be displayed. Am I being finicky? No, because long experience has shown me that even with wine of a relatively humble origin, it needs to be aged in the bottle before being sold in order to get the best of it.

Yes I'm sure that you will enjoy the films you have mentioned as they are based on the writings of Marcel Pagnol who wrote about the area of southern France where he lived and is revered in France as one of its great modern writers. Ingmar Bergman's films are something else, being the opposite of sunny France and more about the subtle greys of northern Europe. I think that Wild Strawberries may be his best film but he is principally noted or the Seventh Seal among others.

[qimissung]

Manon of the Spring is one of my favorite movies, Neely. I haven't seen Jean de Florrette-too sad!

For dinner: fish fillets (yes, frozen), potatoes au gratin (boxed) and strawberry shortcake (yum).

[LitNetIsGreat]

Well here I am, having just finished a salad and some snacks with a bottle of white wine that should strictly have been reserved for fish; namely Muscadet 2009. Waitrose have put up some interesting new wines but they are 2010 vintage, which is too early for even white wine to be displayed. Am I being finicky? No, because long experience has shown me that even with wine of a relatively humble origin, it needs to be aged in the bottle before being sold in order to get the best of it.

Yes I'm sure that you will enjoy the films you have mentioned as they are based on the writings of Marcel Pagnol who wrote about the area of southern France where he lived and is revered in France as one of its great modern writers. Ingmar Bergman's films are something else, being the opposite of sunny France and more about the subtle greys of northern Europe. I think that Wild Strawberries may be his best film but he is principally noted or the Seventh Seal among others.

Manon of the Spring is one of my favorite movies, Neely. I haven't seen Jean de Florrette-too sad!

For dinner: fish fillets (yes, frozen), potatoes au gratin (boxed) and strawberry shortcake (yum).

Excellent, it has great reviews so I am looking forward to it.

Yes I'm not sure about Bergman, I have Hour of the Wolf and it wasn't really my sort of thing but I have to take advantage of screenings while they are being shown.

So 2010 vintages are too early, I'll keep that in mind, I wouldn't have guessed that, that they need two years in the bottle.

Just finished drop scones with bananas and strawberries (Elsantas of course).

Edit: I'm about to go on the back with three/four books and a large raspberry and pear cordial with loads of ice and floating raspberries. This is what life is about.

[Emil Miller]

Excellent, it has great reviews so I am looking forward to it.

Yes I'm not sure about Bergman, I have Hour of the Wolf and it wasn't really my sort of thing but I have to take advantage of screenings while they are being shown.

So 2010 vintages are too early, I'll keep that in mind, I wouldn't have guessed that, that they need two years in the bottle.

Just finished drop scones with bananas and strawberries (Elsantas of course).

Edit: I'm about to go on the back with three/four books and a large raspberry and pear cordial with loads of ice and floating raspberries. This is what life is about.

Just had beans on toast and am drinking Bitburger beer imported from Germany.
If you want to drink 2010 wines, they will pass muster but they are better drunk later but not more than a couple of years. Only expensive wines will improve in the bottle over many years.
I was checking out some YouTube videos of Bergman today and discovered the famous dream sequence from Wild Strawberries, here it is.

http://youtu.be/A3n4TxNeaPg

[LitNetIsGreat]

Just had beans on toast and am drinking Bitburger beer imported from Germany.
If you want to drink 2010 wines, they will pass muster but they are better drunk later but not more than a couple of years. Only expensive wines will improve in the bottle over many years.
I was checking out some YouTube videos of Bergman today and discovered the famous dream sequence from Wild Strawberries, here it is.

http://youtu.be/A3n4TxNeaPg

Yes that's quite an interesting and disturbing little sketch, there was a moment in the Wolf one where a man kills his own son, drowns him, needless to say that was also disturbing viewing, pretty bleak, give me the French countryside.

Yes I've had the bitburger before it's not bad as I remember. I expect that the 2010 rule doesn't apply to my favourite Hungarian wines then?

I'm currently drinking the Tillington Hills cider again, it's just above average. I can't go on with this mediocrity!

[Emil Miller]

Yes that's quite an interesting and disturbing little sketch, there was a moment in the Wolf one where a man kills his own son, drowns him, needless to say that was also disturbing viewing, pretty bleak, give me the French countryside.

Yes I've had the bitburger before it's not bad as I remember. I expect that the 2010 rule doesn't apply to my favourite Hungarian wines then?

I'm currently drinking the Tillington Hills cider again, it's just above average. I can't go on with this mediocrity!

I don't know who directed the Marcel Pagnol stories as I haven't seen them, but it is unlikely that they will match Bergman in serious cinematic consideration even though they will be more popular generally.
The Bitburger was, to say the least, a disappointment in that it belongs to that genre of beers which are very sharp and dry with a crispness that doesn't go well with a palate accustomed to something more mellow.
Today, I travelled to the South coast to take advantage of the warm weather and had the local beer which was soupy and best avoided; on returning, I have been drinking vino reddo with salad ( currently the subject of an EU-wide e.coli scare) so if you don't hear from me again, it will be because I've fallen from my perch.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I don't know who directed the Marcel Pagnol stories as I haven't seen them, but it is unlikely that they will match Bergman in serious cinematic consideration even though they will be more popular generally.
The Bitburger was, to say the least, a disappointment in that it belongs to that genre of beers which are very sharp and dry with a crispness that doesn't go well with a palate accustomed to something more mellow.
Today, I travelled to the South coast to take advantage of the warm weather and had the local beer which was soupy and best avoided; on returning, I have been drinking vino reddo with salad ( currently the subject of an EU-wide e.coli scare) so if you don't hear from me again, it will be because I've fallen from my perch.

Oh dear, I hope the e.coli brew doesn't bite. I hope you got a discount...

I have had a "smashing" day today, playing tennis in the park and then having a pub lunch with Bitburger on tap (I have to disagree I really enjoyed it, but then again, after 9 sets of tennis anything cold would do - though perhaps it is just a question of palate and not taste). We then went for a bit of a bike ride and then played more tennis and finished in the pub again. Spot on, nice tan and I also won.

Currently, I am am raiding Mrs Neely's "pear" ciders again because there is nothing else apart from a stray beer. I'm about to put what is going to be probably last unseen Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose, apart from the latest ones coming out of course, Midnight in Paris which I want to see, though I keep returning to them.

South coast sounds good, top day for it.

More days like these please.

Edit: I have found a couple of cans of Scrumpy Jack at the back of the fridge, might have a couple of those; need to replace lost fluids. Going out for a meal tomorrow and Saturday - making the most of the half-term see?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Kipper herring, stuffed olives and a couple bottles of Spaten Optimator.

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[LitNetIsGreat]

Cantaloupe melon for breakfast.

[Emil Miller]

Edit: I have found a couple of cans of Scrumpy Jack at the back of the fridge, might have a couple of those; need to replace lost fluids. Going out for a meal tomorrow and Saturday - making the most of the half-term see?

And why not? Every day free from the tyranny of work is to be savoured. Today I arose at 10.00 am and fed my cat before grilling a piece of fish and eating it al fresco in the garden. I spent the next hour and a half reading the newspaper and talking to my cat. Then I did some housework and discovered that cleaning the toilet is best done to the music of Mozart's 23rd symphony by courtesy of radio 3. Now I am drinking Berthold Keller Belgian super strength beer 9%, and jolly good beer it is although I have only seen it in tins so far; a few crisps to accompany make it a very satisfying end to the day.

[qimissung]

Scrambled eggs and an English muffin.

[Emil Miller]

I've just eaten spaghetti and am drinking the usual Chianti accompaniment, in other words, another bottle for the recycled rubbish bin.