Every year there is a snow sculpture festival in snowy sapporo, this year I decided to go. I brought back some cheese from a local cheese maker and decided to use it last night in a caesar salad. I have had a liking for caesar salad ever since i knew what they were, cheese, spice, just tasty. Used to use eggs in the dressing, until that time i got vicious stomach pains from it, so now I use this recipie, and it tastes better anyway. its simple, and you already have most of this stuff lying around your kitchen, just waiting to be thrown together.
Greens:
Whatever you want. don't buy that nonsense about how you have to use romaine or whatever, get some variety in there. last night i used the infamous "baby leaf" and some samchu? , the leaf used in yakiniku to wrap the meat up. threw in some tomatoes as well.
Dressing:
Cheese:
Parmesan or other hard type cheese, get a block and grate it ( if all you can be bothered to get is the powered stuff, don't make this recipe)
Olive Oil
Pepper: Lots of it!
Mustard
Salt
Worcestershire Sauce: optional really
Basically the whole "complex" caesar thing is just hard cheese olive oil, and pepper. If you throw those things in a bowl its gonna taste good. After that just make it too taste.
The pairing was alright, not not amazing. The beer, a wheat beer with a dash of pineapple ( i guess) was good in terms of impact, neither overwhelming nor being overwhelmed. And as usual the carbonation and bitterness worked to clear off the tastes of the salad. there was some minor harmony between the peppery dressing and the hops, and between the rich cheese and the sweet pineapple/malts, but over all no real resonance between the beer and the salad.
-Eric
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