For once we were not too perturbed about the downpour which Friday greeted us with. Already having accepted a Monday but more likely Wednesday opening, we had planned a couple of days of chores on the boat and I was well behind with the blog so in time honoured fashion, your amiable skipper got a bodrum of coffee and some danish biscuits and settled down to write all day whilst the fabulous crew took to spring cleaning the boat and washing all the towels and bedding following our guests departure.
We needed meat and I wanted to patronise the tiny village boucherie come charcuterie. I had been inspired by the boeuf bourguignon at Vezelay which was simply chunks of meat in a rich sauce. I asked for a demi kilo of boeuf buorguignon. She opened her larder as they say and came out with a selle seche. It was almost black. she cut it into large chunks and told me it was premiere quality. The cost was 5.20 euros and enough meat for 3 people comfortably. I got back and discovered it was saddle and had been hung to dry, selle seche.I cooked it with 2/3 btle of my grand ordinaire as I keep thinking of the tv chefs droning on about using good wine in cooking. 1/3 beef stock and some shallots and that was it in the slow cooker for 7 hours.
The rest is history but my god it will not be the last time I cook it. drank lots of the grand ordinaire with it and we retired comfortably fed and tipsy, well pissed actually!
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