We invited friends over to have une petite degustation du vin (a little wine tasting). And dinner.
The first bottle was the one our guests brought. He bought it because of the label: it says it’s a Les Crapons. He thought it would be funny to drink something called crap. We all agreed, the label didn’t lie. Bill and I poured ours out. (that’s the appropriate way to dispose of unwanted wine at a tasting)
Then we opened each of Bill’s randomly selected bottles. (none had labels indicating crap) It turns out, Bill is a pretty good guesser. They were all good. Now I have to go back to Carrefour and try to find them again and buy more. In just a matter of a couple of weeks, we’ve managed to build a decent little cave. We bought a 72 bottle wine rack, which Bill put together in the basement. Now we can wander down there to pick out what wine to serve with dinner.
Speaking of dinner, making ours was quite a task. It wasn’t hard. It’s just that our kitchen is so dang small that really only one person at a time can be working in there. I ran out of room on the counters just for bowls I was using. Very frustrating. I am counting the days until I can once again have a big kitchen. I have Bill convinced that we either have to build a house that I can design the kitchen for, or we have to buy a house that we want to just renovate the kitchen. He’s gonna be sorry!
So you want to renovate a kitchen, eh? First, doing only portion of a house seems to be physically impossible. Second, unless you plan to live there for some time, you may move before the project is done. As a friendly reminder, I’ve put the link to such a website above. At least you already know how to cook!