Thursday, October 25, 2012

LAST SUPPER

Oh, I could have saved this for easter, but...

Yesterday, we talked about my expanding body.  Patricia reminded me of today's topic when she said she couldn't give up pasta.

Two Christmases ago, I asked for, and got, this book:


My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs And Their Final Meals: Portraits, Interviews, And Recipes

What a fabulous idea for a book!  Ask chefs what they would eat on their last night on earth!

Do you care what Alain Ducasse would want?

or Mario Batali


Thomas Keller, Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay?

 

It is such a fun book and you can buy it here (or at Amazon.com or .uk for my friends in other countries).

This is one of my favourite dinner party questions. (I have others, too, which cause quite a lot of debate.  My most recent favourite: Patridge Family or Brady Bunch - debate)

Soooooo, you know we are going to play this out don't you?

I will go first!  A good hostess always does!

There is no judgement here, only love and acceptance!  And as an editorial aside, the following meal is composed of things I love, and is not tied together in any thematic or culinary way!


It is my last night on earth, I will ask for the following:

1) champagne (keep it coming, money no object)

2) a really lovely french cheese or two

3) a lovely green salad with sliced pears and a great vinagreitte

4) spaghetti and meatballs (Ina Garten recipe) and some grilled duck

5) a really good garlic bread

6) a really good and expensive bottle of cabernet sauvignon

7) a nice maple ice wine from Canada

8) chocolate cake with 7 minute frosting



9) a good cup of coffee

10) some baileys

Well - what about you - what will you eat for YOUR last supper???




Happy Thursday and Stay Safe out there?

33 comments:

  1. This one is easy. I would want my favorite sushi chef to make my usual and all his surprises. Sake is the drink of choice with sushi but all your talk about champagne has me thinking about the most amazing one I had 20 years ago. Yes 20 years and I still remember. I was doing a lot of winetastings and this champagne was special. Each bottle is only disgorged after an order is placed and overnighted to arrive within 24-48 hours of disgorgement. That champagne is a stratosphere beyond any champagne I've ever tasted. After that, I'm not sure I'd need dessert but nana's butter cake with a good cup of coffee and heavy whipping cream would do. And maybe some gourmet chocolate.

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    1. Great choices~ I don;t think I have ever tasted champagne that good! I did have a really fabulous one when we did the Tattinger tour de cave in Reims - it was amazing - a bit of their best stuff. Now I am thinking of champagne. What is in Nana's butter cake (besides the obvious?)

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    2. Yes we all need Nana's butter cake recipe.

      Last Christmas I opened a bottle of 25 year old Cristal that I had been saving for when something good happened" Nop nothing really good has happened in years so we drunk it and it was something really good.

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    3. Nana was husby's grandmother, she was the most fabulous baker. She taught me how to make it so I called it Nana's butter cake -- a key ingredient is half pound of butter. And there are five eggs ...

      With the holidays coming up, I will give away the family secret one of these days, I promise.

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  2. Oh and The Partridge Family. Music is good for the soul.

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    1. Shall I put you in the Keith Patridge side of the ledger versus Greg Brady? :-)

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  3. Not a tactful question, Wendy!

    But please tell me more about mailed ice wine.

    Bisous!

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    1. HA! Spoken like someone who is right now somewhere really fabulous!

      Jost Maple Ice Wine from Nova Scotia. Not expensive at all - but so yummy in the fall and winter with a nice piece of chocolate.. Darn it - now i am thinking of ice wine...

      http://www.jostwine.com/default.asp?mn=1.23.32.65&pagesize=2

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  4. Oh I'm in! Champagne- Cristal - must be vintage. White crusty bread out of the oven with unsalted butter, a hummus mountain to climb, a jar of almond/pecan butter and a silver spoon, and a jug of double cream please.

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    1. You got it! I don't think you are as much of a glutton as I am!!!

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  5. We could have our last supper together, yup that all sounds good. I'd switch the meatballs with spaghetti to linguini in a cream sauce, funny I'm planning a post on my new recipe for this dish either today or tomorrow.
    Duck confit, french cheese, bottles of champagne, red wine and chocolate which normally would give me a migraine but it doesn't matter in this case!
    Fun game!

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    1. True eh - you wouldn't even care if you had a stomach ache!

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  6. WMM, no fair for making me drool over my bowl of meusli. We have this bucket list book as well and decided a while ago that we would need to have a day-long feast in order to fit in the necessities, everyday, gourmet and holiday occasion. Running late so will stick to three things, each. AT HOME:A genuine Jamaican patty (breakfast of champions) | Homemade bread with lashings of French butter and a drizzle of lavender honey |Sun-ripened heirloom tomatoes from my dad's garden served two ways, outside with salt, pepper grinder and chin dribble, inside with fior di latte, fresh basil and Tuscan olive oil
    AWAY FROM HOME Mario Batali pasta, maybe from Eataly for fun and people watching (in case big airport waiting room in sky is bit lonely)| A lobster roll (from ME but don't tell my family, probably The Ramp's in Cape Porpoise Harbor) Out of season would sub Scottish smoked salmon or escargot | A profiterole from Paris followed by shouted down espresso doppio from Il Caffé Sant Eustachio in Rome
    HOLIDAY HIGHLIGHTS
    Roasted brussel sprouts with parmesan and walnuts | Nan's cranberry chutney | A slice of chocolate silk pie (made with my other gran's pastry and Bernard Callebaut chocolate)
    POTABLES I would be utterly intoxicated (but no hangover yay) as list would need to include a Caesar, a Newkie, Perrier Jouet fleur de champagne (sentimental about the bottle would have all dinner companions sign and leave behind), Pimm's Cup and a single malt. I'd also join you in a sip of ice wine (didn't know Jost makes one!) Just call me the Last Supper lush...

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    1. Me too GF I'd get drunk as an old rubby!

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    2. Get Fresh-- you've been to the Ramp???? I live right there overlooking the harbor! Pete's pulled pork is awesome too.

      I'm with Dani-- bring it on!

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    3. Good show Dani, I'll have someone to giggle and wobble with while we anticipate WMM's Ina pasta!
      OBEY THE CLAW Lane, proper flat-topped, buttered bun and those pickles yum! Yep, was recommended by a friend. I am a lobster roll/ sandwich fiend and have tried everywhere from Linda's at LLB in Freeport to the Clam Shack in K'port. Must add this Pete's you reference, thanks, as DH would prefer legit pulled pork to my roll fave. The fam is from NS so they think I am nuts for heading south for something CAN has in pounds as well, but while our chowder is good, haven't found a handheld that compares. Maybe a meet-up in WMM's hometown for their increasingly "famous" food truch version. (We'll order her a non-seafood sammie.)

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    4. Hey, I'm there, ladies. Pete is the chef at the Ramp; upstairs, at Pier 77 you can enjoy the same menu + live jazz piano. It's my other dining room!

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    5. uh oh - I am seeing road trip and outlet shopping... Oh wait - can't be our last supper then....

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    6. Lane, I was so obsessed by the crustacean, I clearly completely missed the pork (no hubs in tow). On my list to try Pier 77 in 2013, will let you know and hopefully bring WMM along! Meantime please tell Pete there's a Torontonian obsessed with their lobster roll!
      WMM, no drinking if we drive which based on my bar card above might be a very good thing ;-) Fun post and thank you today!

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  8. Hi WMM, what a fun post! My last meal would be something like pasta with shrimp, a lovely roast chicken (I'd savour the crisp skin!)and something with whipped cream for dessert, I'm thinking a lovely crunchy meringue with strawberries or raspberries. If I could add something else that doesn't really fit in - a lobster roll, I just love those!
    I'm giving serious thought as to how I can sit at dinner and NOT eat the potatoes, rice or pasta that everyone else is having. I just don't have the willpower!

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    1. No worries Patricia - you can eat all you want and square it away with your maker later...

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    2. Patricia, lobster roll is in my top 5 TDF foods and they fit in with anything, especially summer berry pavlova/ Eton mess (meringue and cream) dessert!

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  9. Freshly baked bread + butter + cheese... I don't like my diet but I'd rather be alive on Weight Watchers than having my Last Supper no matter how good it is lol. I am torn on my Brady-Partridge decision. The Partridge Family is cooler and the Brady Bunch is dorkier and more contrived... I refuse to choose! Is there a story behind the gold crown you are wearing?

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    1. Ohhhh - fresh bread and butter. Just added that to my dinner. Keep in mind Cate - you don't have to have this till you are 100 - eat all you want!!

      We do Christmas crackers here and there are always paper crowns in them, along with a joke or fortune and a small toy. I think this was a picture from Christmas Day 2009.

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  10. My last meal would have to be homemade pasta with a fresh tomato basil sauce. I'd probably start with a butternut squash soup, then spinach salad with dried cranberries, spicy pecans and goat cheese (my concoction) and finish with bread pudding with Carmel sauce. I'd begin the entire fest with an ice cold lemon drop and then move to a California Cabernet, or a 2007 zinfandel. I'd want to sample what everyone else has too-yes, I'm that person at a restaurant "a taste for a taste" as my brother and I used to say.

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    1. Craving your salad NOW Julie and love your idea with your bro' - we will bring extra forks for swapping.

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  11. What a fun post, WMM! Everyone's last meals sound absolutely delicious! My last meal would have to be filled with tons of fresh baked bread and sweets. They are both my weakness, and at my last meal I could indulge to my heart's content without having to worry about the weight gain like I do any other time I eat them. Oh, and I think I would also toss in a big, juicy ribeye just for good measure. :)

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    1. Yay FFM!

      I could eat that with you! It is fun to think about this, isn't it?

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  12. Wow this is a great post with reading all of the above comments. For my last meal I would have champagne , Caesar salad , baked white bread , Alaska king crab with tons of butter, wine, and Roger's or Purdy's chocolate covered caramels. Since it's my last meal I'm not even going to clean the dishes.

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  13. I forgot homemade bread! And unsalted butter from France (where I first fell in love with butter)!

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  14. Lobster bisque

    Dungeness crab from the west coast of BC

    Lemon pie from Thierry's

    Spanish latte from Caffe Artigiano

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