We pissed away our Sunday by watching stupid Dutch tv shows online. Our favorite show is "Ik vertrek" ("I am leaving"). (For some obsure reason, its title morphed into "Geef mij maar de vinger" ("Just flip me the bird") in our household...)
Whatever it is called, it is wonderful feel-good television, if by feel-good you mean "feel like we are really not doing so badly in life". We just finished the episode in which a Dutch family of 3 move to Alanya to start a travel company, specializing in "the real Turkey" and hiking trips. Too bad the family don't know Turkey or Turkish, and have never been hiking themselves. Since the guy's job in the Netherlands was cleaning cat litter boxes, it is not hard to see the logic in their plan, though.
Anyways, let's get back on topic. We ate fish with an orange-tomato-olive sauce today. We are planning (after a break of 4 years) to pay some more attention to our food-wine pairing from now on.
Today's pairing was a good one: we paired the fish with a Pinot Blanc Barrique from Domaine de l'Oriel. According to my book, a successful match either "compares" or "contrasts" the tastes of the food and wine.
In my opinion, today's pairing "compared" flavors; both the wine and the sauce had a lot of citrus, and the oak and black olives made each a bit more interesting than being just citrus-y.
In Frans's opinion, the pairing was a typical case of "contrasting" flavors: really good wine, bad food.
