Tonight’s meal was lamb stroganoff preceded by a fresh garden salad. The wine was a home-made merlot although it was had with dessert, an apple pie bought at $2.99 from the Fresh Grocer in Drexel Hill, Pa.
Chef Bill Sr. said the pie was well worth the price. Others, however, disagreed. The wine, though, was delicious as was as the stroganoff as was the gruyere cheese served with the pie.
Chef Bill notes that he has come to consider lamb his favorite meat albeit for most of his life that was not the case, He blames the food he was served in his army days.
A story, apocryphal, is that the cattle ranchers and sheep herders fought long and hard during World War II for the government contracts to feed our troops. The sheep herders won.
To their eternal regret.
An entire generation of American men came to loath mutton an opinion which they passed on to their progeny.
Perhaps, now, the legacy is being overcome.
Don’t knock the supermarket apple pie. If it was good enough for the late Tink Audet and yours truly it certainly should be good enough for you.
A glass of good merlot, along with a helping of Gruyere cheese also helps.