~ Menu ~
Cheesy
Beans on Toast
Red
Wine
Ice
Cream with Chocolate Fudge Sauce
I have had a very simple lunch today;
cheesy beans on toast followed by ice cream and chocolate sauce. The meal fit all the requirement necessary to
qualify as a genuinely sudden lunch and was made of leftovers.
At first I thought I was just going to have
cheese on toast but found half a can of white beans in the fridge plus an
almost empty jar of my favourite pasta sauce.
Aha! I heated the two together to
make my own “baked beans”. On toasted
sourdough topped it with delicious Davidstow Cornish Crackler and bunged under the grill till melty and lovely. It was very much like cheesy beans on
toast only quite a superior version.
“à la Mode”
The reason I have called this post “Beans
on Toast à la Mode” is because I wanted to address a peculiar linguistic quirk
of American chaps; their unusual use
of the term “a la mode”. I have always
understood this to be French for “in the manner/style/fashion”, a way of doing
things fashionably or perhaps in a way particular to a certain restaurant.
Discombobulatingly
enough in American “à la Mode” is
generally taken to means served with ice cream!
I would have thought that if you wanted to say “with ice cream” in
French then something like “avec la crème glacée” (don’t quote me on this)
would have done the trick but there you have it.
It is the original French meaning I intend in this post – I served my beans on toast in the style of our house inCornwall .
Once in theCaribbean , for pure divilment, I put Home Smoked Seafood Platter "a la mode” on the menu (with cream cheese, parsley ad vodka ice cream) and
watched their funny reactions, bless them.
It is the original French meaning I intend in this post – I served my beans on toast in the style of our house in
Once in the
Talking of blessing them ...
Happy Fourth of July you
guys!!
Very Quick Hot Chocolate Sauce
Speaking of ice cream my lunch pudding was also
sudden. There has been a small amount of
leftover condensed milk in the fridge for far longer than there should have
been. As a test for my forthcoming book on leftovers (please see below) I melted it together with an equal quantity of dark
chocolate and ate the resulting sauce over ice cream – just so that I
could fully assess its qualities.
Its qualities were – sweet, rich, lush, deeply chocolatey and it went fudgy and goos-ome as it cooled on the ice cream which I consider to be a good point.
Its qualities were – sweet, rich, lush, deeply chocolatey and it went fudgy and goos-ome as it cooled on the ice cream which I consider to be a good point.
News from the Future ...
My book was published in March,
2013. Originally titled The Leftovers Handbook a second edition is now
available and is called Creative Ways to Use Up Leftovers.
In it I give all the information, ideas and
recipes I can think of for over 450 possible leftovers. Do we get pack each?
1 comment:
There have been times, in the past, when I've seriously considered - for speed, you understand - putting both main course and dessert on the same plate. Now, I discover, I could have made the excuse of it being "a la mode" (only in an American accent). Hey ho - just as well those days are gone. :)
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