At 12:36 BST I had all six - this is a KillerB record. Must celebrate.

Lady K has started the website: www.KillerB.biz

Congratulations KillerB! What will you open to celebrate?

Tsunami (et al.), we do have to keep in mind that the 9th is Good Friday, and that not all shops might be open that day. Just an idea: if you arrive on Friday, you’re probably a bit pooped from driving. We could just have a simple meal that day, some nice wines, chat a bit…and discuss dinner for Saturday. That way, you’d get your rest, and we could reveal the wines, and you could come up with the best pairing. It would also leave us plenty of time to do shopping on Saturday. Good idea / bad idea?

Like the idea .
So, at who's place are we going to eat on the 10th? I think our place is still OK, we have a large table and enough chairs so we can enjoy diner and wines the best.

Lady Roots, you answered your own question I think...Utrecht would work for me!

Pfalzman94: Another OL is being planned during Easter weekend (sounds like April 10) while Tsunami is visiting. Details throughout this tread. Final details being worked out.

More OL's for sure in the coming months so let us know your schedule and I'm sure we can work something out for when you'd like to visit again or have time off.

BTW, I think I did the same thing on E42, but luckily realized after a few miles to correct the detour.

ok guy's,

i think we have to go more into detalis now!


1) 9th in utrecht

2) 10th were? we would like to come to amsterdam
(sightseeing amsterdam)

3) I do cook and bring all food for 9th at roots
place.

what about:
- marmorised terrine de foigras (goose-liver) and salad

- bouillon with black truffles and
lobsterdumplings

- homemade safran-noodels with stonemushrooms

- horse-tenderloin with vintageport-sauce and spring-vegetables

- cheese with figs-bread

- (i would like to make) pakistan-mango-flambee with thaiti-vanille-icecream! (??? do you have a icecream-maschine ??? )


how dos that menu sounds like?


i do prepare as mutch as i can in advance and will
bring everything with me well chilled into coolboxes.

i carry with me the noodel-maschine


anything we have to change at the menu?

Tsunami: since I cannot find the drooling mouth graemlin!

I can't say I've ever had horse (except maybe in salami), but if everyone else is keen to try, fine with me.

I cannot miss this OL!!!

[This message was edited by joea on Mar 30, 2004 at 04:11 PM.]

*GASP*GASP*GASP*

Looks goooooood, tsunami! I must admit that the icecream sound wicked...but I don't have an icecream maker. If you're up to it: the 9th at the Roots', and I'd be happy to host an offline the 10th. Just don't expect such a stellar dinner!

Hmmm, what to pair with that food?

Foie gras - Sauternes? TBA? Icewine?
Bouillon - not sure; dry Madeira? The lobster makes it difficult.
Noodles & truffles - Older Bordeaux?
Horse (would be a first for me too) & Port - A fruit-forward red?
Cheese - Port!
Icecream - TBA again? PX?

Your thoughts please!

Looks like we're in for a very big treat! All dishes sound delicious tsunami! I'm afraid we don't have an icecream machine though.

If there is anything LadyR and I can do in advance, just let us know.

Lady Roots made a little detour through the Hague to buy a bottle that will make this happening even more special... ....

I told you that off-lining with Tsunami (and Andrea) would be amazing......

snow sucks, cold is worse.......

Tsunami: this is what I think of your diner choise :

nice,

ok the menu should be fine.


now who is comming , when , were?

9th:

- roots 2x
- cage 1x?
- joea 1x?
- tsunami's 2x
- killerb ???

10th:
- cage 1x?
- roots 2x?
- joea ?
- tsunami's 2x
- killerb ?


steve,
don't "worry" for the food at the 10th,
we can go buy togheter and cook togheter


about the winepairing:

Foie gras - alsace sdgn would be the best! or a glas vintageport!

Bouillon - "please no madeira i don't like it!)
a full bodyed dry wine with depht go's well

Noodles & truffles - we should stay on the white
if that works (i think we schould not drink to much dry wines because were going to have plenty vintageport)

Horse - a big full aromatic wine like a big northern rhone (south will also go well)
ripe bordeaux maybe also match

Cheese - whater!

if you don't have a maschine we have to change the
dessert

mango & Icecream - (no px please, it taste like coffee, tabak and that dosn't go with the fresh taste of the mango or vanilla)
a nice german risling would go well and it would fresh'n us up a bit bevor we drink the port

At the moment we have no plans to be there for Easter weekend. It's not impossible but assume that we won't.

Lady K has started the website: www.KillerB.biz

$#!*, I can't make it. That really sucks--have to work both the 9th and the 10th, and there's no way around it (the whole holiday weekend thing). Hope you all have a gnarly weekend, and in the event someone DOES come with a wicked nice ice-cream maker, make sure the taxi driver doesn't end up taking it to bed with him instead.
Tsunami: Promise my wife and me you'll be heading to Utrecht again within the next three years or so. We still have yet to try foie gras (that's how drastically sheltered we are--but were making positive strides), and I think it would be awesome to try it for the first time in an OL environment just like our first experience with aged cheese, tapenade(sp?), and tapee(again, sp?), and most especially, LAMB! Yeah, sheltered. Alright, peace in the middle east! Have a great time; can't wait for all the great TN's!

Soll denn doch getrunken sein,
trinke nur vom besten Wein.
- Goethe

pfalzman94,

well you are closer to us then utrecht.

you should thinking about an offline at kaiserslautern.

what about when we drive back home and make a stop
at youre home?

we love lamb maybe we still have some gooseliver left over (i meen i could make more!)

what do you think?

Pfalzman94: pity, but I'm sure we'll meet again some other time...any excuse to hold an offline, and you still need to visit Amsterdam!

tsunami; your wish is our command! I was talking to Ronnie tonight about the wine pairings, and we thought a Niepoort Branco would go well with the bouillon: we could try both the 1997 Reserva and the 2001 "Regular": both full bodied, spicy and soooo tasty (and I doubt you have tasted them), and it would make for a nice side-by-side. You suggest an Alsace for the foie gras: how about a Trimbach 1989 Gewurztraminer SGN? Good choices?

Will you be bringing wine with you as well? If so, could you give us a hint as to what we have to be thinking of? Not to spoil the surprise, just to have similar and / or nicely contrasting wines available! Just one more week...and counting!

*edited for spelling*

[This message was edited by StevieCage on Mar 31, 2004 at 06:33 PM.]

Tsunami, you can count on both the Rootses again on the 10th. This will be a weekend we won't forget, I'm sooooo looking forward to it.
I'm surprices to hear that foie gras goes nice with VP, I've never tried that combination.

KillerB and Pfalzman; sorry to hear you will not be there, but I'm sure we'll meet another time.

Tsunami,

What day would you be coming back? My wife and I would love to have you (did you say your wife was coming, too?) and your wife, then, over to our place in Weilerbach, a small town just north of Kaiserslautern by 10 minutes or so. Let us know what day, as well as what all you would need, if anything, to work your magic; my wife's a quite able cook, too, if you wish to take a break. (Are you allowed to do your full-time job while on vacation--Isn't there some law forbidding this?) Alright, looking forward to hearing from you! Wiederhoeren!

Soll denn doch getrunken sein,
trinke nur vom besten Wein.
- Goethe

killerb:

try to make it possible, please!



pfalzman94,

we have time from 9th to 14th.

when would you have time for us? (when are you free from working?)

if your'e wife like, we could cook togheter and
learn from each other! we would have to arrange this meeting well in advance because all stores are closed (maybe not at airport frankfurt a.m.)



stevecage,

i do have had the branco at a tasing (had a nice long discussion with dirk v.niepoort) i don't remember it well, but was it a 2000?, ?reserva?,
sorry can't remember
do we have the possibility for clos st.hune?
this would be the best match i can think of!

the trimbach would work superbly!
a vintage port also because the marmoration of this terrine comes from vintage port

what i'm willing to take out of my cellar?
hmmmmmm.....

i will carry a selection of "pearls" with me and decide while the OL what i open or what comes back
to the cellar.

we have to keep in mind that we need wine for 2
eavenings and maybe one with pfalzmann.

sorry but i like to bring my wines "blind"

what i can say about is:

3 - 5 bottles vintage port "all 94-100 js"
for shure older than 1990!

2 - 4 bottles dry red wines "big ones"
young and older (but still babys)

maybe tokaji
older and young (the will blow your hats of)

what i know is that OL's do have the potential
to get LEGENDARY


Lady Roots,
COOL!!
is there a chance to see a nice part of amsterdam
the 10th? i would love to go for lunch at a thai-food restaurant "please if you make a reservation, please non smoking!!!



ALL who come at this OL,

"i won't be impluent"!!!
but since we do not know each other until today,
can we have some kind of agreements?
- non smoking! (nothing will taste any more)
- casual clothing (we have to be conftable for 100% tasting-fun)
- please no parfume or shave-water! (it over-covers my nose.

i hope that's not to mutch

i'm counting day's and
already organising/preparing food for a cool OL!

Btw. a cheese-question to dutch's and pfalzmann:

do you like more the:

- "hard" ........like parmesan.,,,,,
- "half-hard" ...gryere, gouda, fontina,,,,,
- "soft" ........camenbert, vacherin, brie,,,,,
- "blue" ........stilton, gorgonzola,,,,,,
- "sheep,goat" ..ami de chamertin, epoisse, tuma,,

??????????

I like the idea of bringing your wines "blind"

Stevie and I will do some further wine shopping this weekend, we'll keep you informed about the results!

We'd love to show you and your wife around in Amsterdam the 10th. I think Stevie is best informed on restaurants, and may be LadyR also has some ideas (she lived in Amsterdam for a couple of years).

- No smoking: no problem. Stevie is the only smoker in our midst, and he has no problem whatsoever with not smoking in the house.
- clothing: we are no formal types, so casual clothing is guaranteed
- perfume etc.: I don't like that either. I don't think LadyR even has one single bottle of perfume.. and if she does, she never used it

Cheeses: We are all cheese addicts! I personally like them hard, soft, smelly, runny, spicy, blue, sheep, goat, everything. It's hard to go wrong actually...
We can also bring some (old?) dutch cheeses if you like.

If you send me an e-mail at rwortel@hotmail.com, I will give you our adress, telephone number and also some directions to our house.

KillerB: it would be great fun if you could make it (you really looked like you needed a vacation last thursday... )

ronnie,

e-mail is on the way!


ps.
killerb, killerb, killerb,.., ,,, ,, , ,, !!!

...and the reply too.

killerb, you surely can't be so cold hearted to deny the pleading of tsunami in such a harsh way...?

Tsunami: I just had my finest dress suit pressed for this event, and now you don't want me to wear it Ok, we'll keep it casual fo you

As Ronnie mentioned, we all love cheese, any cheese. Let us know what we can supply!

Sorry, but I don't think I can make it anytime Saturday, day or night.

I think I will also just bring a bagfull of wine and we can use whatever is needed for what we don't already have. I'll touch base with Ronnie, Lady Roots & Stevie sometime next week though to see what they have so that there is not too much overlap.

Pfalzman94: As others said, there WILL be future OL's in Amsterdam and Utrecht!

It sounds like you may be hosting Tsunami, so I'm sure you'll have a good time also...and no chance of you're wine going missing for a couple of hours