À la Dankertier

A month ago, André and I started to watch How I Met Your Mother again and couldn't help but laugh when one of our friend asked us if we wanted to have a "wine and cheese tasting": we are soooo grown up! ;) It was a wonderful evening and not exactly what I expected. In Quebec, when one says "wine and cheese tasting", it means: choosing the wine, making sure the cheese are going to fit with said wine and there is a special order to drink and eat. Bottom line: it is complicated and very well organized. What we had was a very nice, simple evening with wine and cheese: and we love those! Then I thought about another wonderful recipe that my step mom made from time to time as an appetizer and would go great on a cheese plate: it has perfect blend of sweet and salty, like I love. Blend 375mL of old cheddar cheese , 125g of cream cheese* and 1 tablespoon of maple syrup . Shape into 15cm long log using clinging wrap and put in the freezer for 20-30 minutes. Finely c...

Sooooooo.... This time, it was so good that we did not manage to take a picture before everything was gone ;). Tonight, we decided to cook for each other, I was doing the appetizer and André is doing the main course. I decided to do a simple, but OMG delicious tuna and salmon tartar. I cut in small cubes (between 5 and 10 mm sides) more or less 200 g of fresh fish (freshness is an important factor here). I add a big spoon of mayonnaise (the good one I brought back from Canada!!!), a spoon of soya sauce , a little bit of oil (just so the texture is right) and some chili (I have that rooster asiatic sauce, but anything that gives a punch would do the trick!). Today we just went to the grocery shop, so we have a leek in the fridge and I decided to add also one table spoon of finely chop leek instead of adding regular onion. I mixed everything and put in the fridge to rest for a few moments. Meanwhile, I prepare a simple salad with 2 handles of mache salad . For the dressing, I us...