Food Night: Recipe Poll and the Three Wise Men

Food Night is curious about something. Would you wonderful people like more recipes with your food and wine related musings found on these internet pages? Food Night isn’t going to turn this place in to simplyrecipes.com* or anything. But I thought I'd but up a little poll to let the people of Food Night Nation vote on what they want to see documented in recipe form from the most recent Food Night, held on 11/12/2010.

* Food Night is a big fan of simplyrecipes.com. The recipes there work. And isn’t that the best thing you can say about a recipe… that it works? Skip epicuriwhatever.com, go to simplyrecipes.com. End of endorsement.

At this "Three Wise Men and a Cook*" Food Night, we had myself (the cook), and Alex, Andy and Phil. These three gents manage various Haskells Wine & Spirits locations here in the cities, and let’s just say they have tasted a few decent bottles in their day. It was a really great group, which lends credence to a point Georg Riedel mentioned that we spoke about earlier, which was “Enjoy the company of the people you are drinking with”.

*Please do not confuse this recent Food Night with this…

Similar… but different. Remember when Steve Freaking Guttenberg was a big deal for like 17 minutes? Cripes am I getting old.

So anyway, you don’t have to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the Burgundy vintages from 1992 to 1995 or some such B.S. to enjoy Food Night, or any dinner party. Just enjoy the people you are hangin' with! Heck - I was an infant Skywalker compared to the The Wise Mens' collective Yoda when it comes to wine knowledge and tasting history. But just listening to the banter and observations about wine from people who KNOW is extremely fun and educational.

And now, the candidates, for your consideration...

Scallops Two Ways
Carpaccio & Seared. Pork belly. Salsa verde. Black olive oil.