Sazzy's Degustation Diary: Sunday 15th March '09

I had plans to take Simba to the dog beach with Noel, Fleurette and Spectra today, but alas, even though I set my alarm for 9:30am, I did the calculations in my head and knew I didn’t have time to make all the preparations necessary so that I could go straight from the beach to the BBQ I had at noon.

I packed up the portable BBQ, some last minute foods and headed off to Benoit and Ivy’s place. It was forecast to be 37C today and when I got there, I certainly felt it. We set up the BBQ outside and when Dau arrived, we started cooking. I mean, he started cooking.

”I...am the greatest BBQ chef there is.
I cook from the heart. The heart, man. The heart.”

Inside, I prepared the potato salad. Ivy said she was craving some potato salad, so I picked up ingredients for it at the shops the other day. I haven’t made potato salad for a while. I got stuck when it came to choosing the salad dressing. At the last minute, I remembered the really delicious mustard dressing I’ve made on several occasions (not of late) and hunted around the house to grab what I’d need.

The potatoes were boiled, sliced thickly and thrown into a large bowl – skin and all. I roughly chopped some bacon and fried this in a pan. Once nicely done, I added the bacon to the bowl of potatoes and some sliced boiled eggs (which I’d boiled last night and put in the fridge overnight). To the renderings in the pan, I added some white wine vinegar (and some regular vinegar because I didn’t have enough white wine vinegar), olive oil and honey mustard seeds from a jar. I let this mixture simmer for a few minutes and then poured it over the potatoes, bacon and egg. Throw on some cracked black pepper and freshly cut chives and voi la!