Did my 'Signature Dish' which is pieces of fish, mixed seafood and colourful vegetables - peppers, peas, potatoes, courgettes - you can vary it a lot depending on what you have - put into a big shallow dish with olive oil, tomato concentrate, garlic, lemon slices, and put in a hot oven until it seems right. Whatever you do ... it seems to come out fine. The 'juice' is especially lovely. Anyway it's about the only thing I can reliably cook.
With it we had a bottle of our Verdicchio, which deserves to be better known. All the fuss over Pinot Grigio...fine. But try this wine in its curious bottle. I remember it as the first bottle of wine I ever bought.
I was underage. But in Italy. On a school trip to Naples by train. God knows why Mr. Roberts wanted to take thirty adolescent boys to Naples but he did. And got us all back.
My late father had asked me to get him a bottle of Verdicchio because he'd had one at La Taverna in Windsor and liked it. I found one in a little grocery in a Roman suburb and fought off repeated attacks all the way home to present it to him undamaged.
Enjoyed doing that. Developed into a full-blown obsession, though.
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Nice bottle, indeed. I don't think I've ever seen one like that. And what an interesting story. Now I'm irreparably curious as to it's taste.
ReplyDeleteMr. Laithwaite, I admit to swinging by your diary every now and again. I like it and find it quite charming and personal. Thanks for posting.
I produce a live, audience-interactive wine tasting show online. Maybe I'll pass this wine over to our host and see if he'd like to feature it. Maybe we can get it the recognition you say it deserves!
Regardless, I thin I'll give it go.