When my lovely husband and I are having a dinner date, I really enjoy having a nice glass of red wine – not too dry, but not too sweet either. 😋

We also love using red wine as an ingredient in cooking. Pretty much any red or brown sauce benefits from a dash of red wine; we even like to use it to enhance lentil soup.

For this, we always choose a red wine that we would also enjoy drinking on its own.

The label of the French red wine of our choice says “sweet” and, indeed, it is a little sweeter than semi-dry but still not too sweet for our taste.
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My husband and I aren’t big whiskey drinkers. Harry likes to have a beer every now and then, and I like to enjoy a glass of red wine from time to time.

Whiskey isn’t really our thing, though. The only reason we still have a bottle of whiskey to hand is that we like to try out new things in the kitchen.

Like the Whiskey Cream Sauce we made the other day. We liked it so much that we’ve picked out another suitable recipe. Otherwise, we’ll never get the bottle finished. 😄

Harry once had dinner at the restaurant of “Hotel zur Linde”, the leading hotel on the island of Spiekeroog, where he enjoyed pork medallions in a delicious creamy whiskey sauce that we tried to copy the last time around.
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As you know, my lovely husband and I have been on holiday on the island of Spiekeroog a few times. Harry had actually been there a couple of times before we met.

He once told me that he once had dinner at the restaurant of “Hotel zur Linde” and enjoyed pork medallions in a delicious whiskey cream sauce.

Unfortunately, he has not found this dish on the restaurant’s menu ever since.

My hubby is quite a talented chef, mind you, and for this year’s bunny holidays, he decided to try his hand at making a whiskey cream sauce himself.
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My lovely hubby used to like going to Subway – the sandwich restaurant, not the means of transport – to grab a “Turkey, Ham & Bacon Melt”.

Unfortunately, in our parts, Harry’s favourite sub was taken from the menu a few years back and he has refused to set foot into those restaurants ever since.

Instead, he tried to reproduce this sandwich and I do think he has come up with an excellent solution. 🙂

Of course, Harry would not want to violate any copyrights or naming rights that Subway may still hold.
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My husband and I love potatoes. 😋

That wasn’t always true for my husband, though. Because when he was a child, potatoes were served by his Mom as a side dish pretty much every day.

No matter the main course. Except when the main course was soup and even then, it usually contained chunks of potatoes, Harry says. 😄

Don’t get me wrong here. By no means is Harry saying that his mother didn’t know how to cook. His favourite dish is an original recipe from his mother, mind you.

It was just that there was that glaring lack of variety when it came to side dishes.
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