Cured meats, two of our favourite convenience foods: sitting on the left side of our slate roof tile we have saucisson with pimento and mustard seeds and on the right, prosciutto crudo – home-carved from the boneless joint I scooped at Lidl just before Christmas…
….add rosé Champagne, one of my favourite things to drink, and we had the raw ingredients for a very Happy Valentine’s Day. This Taittinger was an unusual tawny-orange, possibly from the extra year’s bottle age and meatier than most, possibly from the Pinot Noir, maybe the terroir: whatever the reason, it stood its ground with the charcuterie. Sighing with satisfaction I could only hope everyone was having such a lovely, lazy afternoon last Sunday: everything came up roses.
Valentine’s Day luxuries without spending a fortune
- Saucisson with pimento and mustard seed £3.99 new at Waitrose (paid £1.49 on sell-by date)
- Prosciutto crudo joint £11.74 at Lidl (about £8 a kilo as far as I recall)
- Taittinger Prestige Rosé £14-ish on the sale shelf in Sainsbury last Spring – total bargain! – now £36 approx.
btw: it was quite something to see the bunfight at the steak counter in M&S on Saturday – don’t these people have any imagination?
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