Although the phrase “Netflix and chill” has become a euphemism for casual sex, we will keep its innocent meaning in this blog. I recommend the French movie “Blind Date,” now being shown on Netflix, for those who want to chill out on Valentine’s Day and be solitary couch potatoes.
The original French title is “Un Peu, Beaucoup, Aveuglement” or “A Little, A Lot, Blindly,” and like most French things, the title is meant for reflection.
What does it mean?
One, it can refer to the progression of falling in love with someone. The emotion creeps in and grows steadily until you’re madly in love. Two, it can refer to stages of insanity: a little crazy, a lot crazy, and completely crazy. (Personally, I think love and insanity go hand-in-hand like oysters and Chablis, lock and key, and Lee Minho and chaebol.)
Three, it can allude to her quest for emancipation. At first, she’s hesitant. Then, she becomes more assertive. At the end, she’s fiercely independent.
And four, it can also allude to the defensive walls that people put up. The wall plays an important role in this movie. I’ll let you find it out yourselves.
I’m sure there are other ways of interpreting the title.
What’s the movie all about?
It’s about two people breaking down a literal and metaphorical wall between them. She’s a classical pianist moving into her first apartment, and he’s a genius hermit who designs games and solves theoretical math. (Kinda like Lee Gon in “The King: Eternal Monarch”). She needs to practice piano for an upcoming competition. He needs to work in silence. And as Shakespeare would say, “There lies the rub.” The wall separating their two worlds is paper-thin.
Noteworthy things or spoilers:
1. The lead actor Clovis Cornillac also co-wrote and directed this. This was his directing debut. I think he did well.
2. She was an ingenue; he was a misanthrope.
Look: if the Japanese anime introduced the “tsundere” character to the world, then the “ingenue” and the “misanthrope” as archetypes from French literature. An ingenue is an unsophisticated young woman. A misanthrope is an individual, typically male, who hates people in general. This romance is about an ingenue winning over the misanthrope.
Don’t confuse with him with a misogynist who hates women in particular.
3. To me, the opening scene was delicious. I fell in love with the opening scene. She was gliding her hand on the warm wood of the piano lid. For me, a grand piano comes only in one color: black. But I understand the beauty of a brown piano, too. Black will always remain black. But the brown wood will improve as time goes by. As it ages, it will acquire a rich patina with gradations of brown and streaks of gold.
So when she felt the smooth surface of the wood, I could easily imagine her relishing the lifetime she’d spend with this piano. HER piano. She had this sweet smile on her face.
The camera then zoomed out to show her location.
She was sitting behind a moving truck. She kept one hand on the piano and another hand on the stand lamp. The only flash of color (red!) came from the plastic chair she was sitting on. Behind her, in a stack of cardboard boxes, she had all of her belongings with her. Her worldly possessions didn’t even fill one-fifth of the truck. My first impression was she was a nun. Most college kids heading to their dorms would have three times as many boxes.
The truck was moving along a quiet street in Paris. My guess: she was in the 7th arrondissement, my favorite neighborhood in Paris.
4. Both lead characters were sheltered from the real world. She was naïve because her older sister looked after her. Meanwhile, he could live a reclusive life because his long-time buddy took care of his groceries and updated him on outside events.
You could tell that she was quirky because she had no silverware or glasses in her house. You could say that she was a minimalist and he was the collector.
5. They didn’t live in the same building, but their apartment buildings were adjacent to each other. In Paris, buildings can have inner courtyards so it’s hard to tell which buildings are beside each other. That’s why she couldn’t just knock on her neighbor’s door and look for him.
But I thought it was cute when she began looking for cowboy boots. And when she began making coffee quietly.
6. You may miss this detail as the story brushes over it.
He’d been in isolation, designing his latest project, for seven years. The woman he loved had been dead for seven years, too. The connection between her death and his self-exile was implied, but not explained.
7. By tacit agreement, the characters never exchanged names. He called her “Machine” while she called him “Machin.” Her sister’s petname for her was “Bouboune” but was translated in Netflix as as “Booboo.”
Machin (masculine) or machine (feminine version) is a filler word, meaning “thing” or “thingamajig.” It’s like saying “What’s that thing?!!” you can say, “C’est quoi ce machin?!”
Machin and Machine wished to preserve anonymity because with anonymity, there was no strings attached between them.
8. She played Chopin’s “Étude in C minor for piano, Op. 10 No. 12.”
This piece is also known as “Revolutionary Etude.” Supposedly, Chopin composed as a reaction to the news that his beloved Polish compatriots were crushed by the Russians in their uprising. He wanted to return to Warsaw and fight with them, but he was stuck in Paris. He would never return to his homeland.
Machin wanted her to unleash her emotions so she could play it with the same passion as Chopin’s.
I thought the piece was well-chosen to express her rebellion — and emancipation — from Euvgenie’s patronage.
9. The identity of the old man, Euvgenie, seems shady. She isn’t his daughter. The photograph on the piano didn’t include her sister. She was his protégé.
Re. the photograph. It’s creepy that her style hadn’t changed in 20 years. Glasses, hair in a bun, blouse with that schoolgirl collar. That collar was typical of school uniform.
10. I think this movie would make an interesting kdrama or Japanese dorama with 10 episodes.
It’s so Parisian in its sensibilities. For instance, there was a scene when she invited a guy home to dinner just by using mime. She used mime because she was trying to follow Machin’s demands to maintain silence. I should have felt a second-hand embarrassment as she went through the comical motion. But she reminded me of Marcel Marceau, the greatest French mime artist.
I would be very interested to see a kdrama writer adapt that scene of a girl inviting a guy to “Netflix and chill” without words.
I think “Blind Date” is a light-hearted French movie that you can all watch on Valentine’s Day.
Thanks for the recommendation, @packmule3. The film sounds interesting and cute-will check it out. Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone!
Thanks for this, @pkml3. It sounds like it could indeed be adapted for one of those kdrama soulful short dramas, which are full of emotion rather than plot. This could be my gateway into French shows as and when I take the plunge.
Happy Valentine’s Day to all, in advance!
For the title, it’s like the game you do when you want to know if your crush loves you too. You ask the question : Does he love me? And you take a poor flower (a daisy) and you take the petal one by one saying : Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, à la folie, pas du tout (A little, a lot, passionately, to insanity, not at all). The last petal is your answer.
It would be fun as a Kdrama!
Haha..love and insanity, Lee Min Ho and chaebol going hand in hand..loved that!!🤣🤣🤣
I moment I think of a French romamtic movie, I’m always reminded of Amelie, one of my favorite movies.
I’m all set for my Valentine’s day watching this romance between the ingenue amd the misanthrope 😍 I’m sure it has a happy ending, otherwise you wouldn’t have recommended it😄 Thank you for the recommendation, @packmule3!
Haha. Why would I recommend an unhappy romance for Valentine’s Day? But this is really a quirky, short story.
If I were French, I’d compare this movie to an “amuse-bouche.” An amuse-bouche is a bite-size appetizer, an hors d’oeuvre. It’s amusing enough to be eaten (or watched) in one sitting.
Yes, I think it would make for a fun kdrama. I’m trying to figure out who would make a good misanthrope.
Gong Yoo? But he played this role before in “Goblin.”
Lee Minho? hahaha. The fangirls would love that.
NO to Park BoGum. Misanthrope? Him?
Cha Eunwoo? Pass.
Choi JinHyuk (the Zombie Detective)? Possible.
Kang Haneul (“When Camellia Bloooms”). He looks like a puppy but maybe…
Cha SeungWon (“Hwayugi”) he’s such an ahjussi, though.
Jang Hyuk. (“Beautiful Mind”) Yes.
Lee SeoJin (“Three Meals a Day” and “Grandpa over Flowers”) Definitely!!
What do you think?
Oui! This movie and Yin and Yang on the list for V weekend! Last French film I remember and love was Amelie; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on the other. Hahaha, that was a long time ago!
I am skipping the review to watch the movie first and I’ll be back! ^^^^ I am happy for what happened tonight so I am feeling open to watch a rom com kekekeke
What? What happened tonight? Did I miss anything important?
Sorry to say this abruptly, but the only chance for this to be good is to become a kdrama. I could say that clovignac is one of the worst French actors, but in reality, they are almost all like that, exactly in the same mold. Overacting, lousy pronunciation, stereotypical attitudes, false play, zero originality and untrustables. All clones. It’s less noticeable for someone who doesn’t speak French certainly, but it’s ulcerating. When I see this guy, and the others, I just want to throw everything that’s handy on the screen. But this guy makes me particularly prickly, so much he’s screwed up productions that could have been interesting, by puking up the lead role.
On this kind of typical production, you can also expect fat gags, rarely funny, and a cul-cul and gnan-gnan (=ass-silly-romance and boring) side. Seeing the trailer was a torture, but I did it anyway to play the game, otherwise I haven’t needed it for a long time, something confirmed once again here, so much it has become the typical canvas of fallen French cinema. I live in a country where artistic nullity reproduces itself ad infinitum and where the same parasites perpetually occupy the space. I don’t even have the patience to look for the right content if there is still some left nowadays. As an amuse bouche, it is ideal for spoiling one’s appetite. It should be advisable for those who are on shock diets. I’m running out of depressing arguments, I hope this has made you laugh a little.
Let’s say, I enjoy Lee Minho after watching something like this, and I’m waiting so much for a korean remake with Minho as lead role, writed by Kim Eun Sook.
Booooooo, WEnchanteur.
Come on now. Be supportive of your cinema. This movie isn’t the end-all and be-all of French culture and French artistic endeavors. But it’ll be a good introduction, an amuse bouche like I said, to readers here who haven’t seen a French romcom in ages.
There was one fat joke. Machin said he was glad that he didn’t have a belly so he could still see his “bite en pissant” (his dick while pissing). I thought that was funny because I never thought of it as a problem for rotund men.
Besides, I see a little bit of Clovignac’s character Machin in you. You grumpy old man. 🥸
Do you see what I mean when I said that the French invented misanthropy? It’s as natural as breathing for you. 🙂
Yah! You got me! I have frequent bouts of bitterness!
I certainly like to grumble, a typically French trait it seems.
But I don’t do it without reason here.
I’m allergic to this actor and those like him. One exception, he did play a role correctly once in his life (like what), in the movie Eden Log, which I watched because it was science fiction.
I don’t support this kind of cinema, it’s not even French cinema for me anymore.
You can’t understand! (Good answer, no?)
The overplay I’m talking about can only be felt by a French viewer, certainly, just as a book by Maupassant is untranslatable. And it’s even worse on television or series, where these flaws are amplified. It’s so quick to get fed up. My reaction is much less epidermal than you might think. All this is already dead and buried for a long time (at least 20 years). All these people come out of the same school, the Cours Florent, and they all suck as much as each other. I don’t know what they’re taught there, but that’s the result. There’s not the same curriculum that the Koreans have. Such as a Kim So-Hyun starting at the age of 7, having received the teachings and blessings of all the older actors she has met in her life, and who at barely 20 years of age is holding leading roles in a solid way.
The good French actors, I don’t know the new ones if there are any, if not, I can make a list. Here, exactly the same kind of physique as clovignac, there is Benoit Magimel. This guy is solid in his roles. No overacting, no caricatured pronunciation, and as a bonus, the chance to have been in good films. Laurent Lucas, another good actor, but maybe it will be difficult to find English subtitled films by these people. If I had to recommend a good French film, it would be “la reine margot”, with actress Isabelle Adjani, even if I’m not agree with history like it was depicted, it’s one of the best french movie past 1990.
Otherwise to react to your article, you were right with the expression “machin”. However, the meaning has passed into everyday language, so it doesn’t refer to an object. When you say “Machin”, it’s a guy you don’t know and don’t care about. “Machin” must be the equivalent of “dude” or “this other guy”.
If it amuses you, you can say : truc, bidule. It’s not as pejorative as it sounds. No one is directly called like that, it’s always two people talking about someone who’s not there by calling him like that. Like saying, “machin” did this, what’s his name again?
I hope I wasn’t to disturbing by being so critical, I often choose to be sincere when I post.
Blue Dragon Award was held last night and the winners are those really deserving. YYS is dashing and Kim Hye Soo is beautiful as MCs. I am happy!😍😍😍😍
Everything has gone as planned. 🤭🤭🤭
@WEnchanteur, I was heartily entertained through reading your posts. Thank you for a bitterly-funny start to my morning!
Ah now that you’ve mentioned the names of shows and actors. I may even look them up, and who knows!
@pkml3
Interesting question. If we could choose our kdrama misantrope actor, I don’t mind one of these gentlemen:
Yoo Ah In
Yoo Seung Ho
Park Hae Jin
Ji Sung
Seo In Guk
Joo Ji Hoon
These actors have, I feel, depicted some aspects of the misantrope and tsundere before and did well. Of course it’s very hard to have a kdrama acting career in which this guys did not at least have 1 show where they played the tsundere. LOL.
And to add on … for the ingenue I wouldn’t mind one of these ladies:
Park Bo Young
Kim So Hyun
Lee Sung Kyung
IU
Kim Yoo Jung
Jung So Min
Park So Dam
I’ve watched them do quite well in their past roles, some of which are similar and they generally have the right ‘look’ for a naive, young innocent.
Yoo Ah In!! Yes. I can imagine him as a misanthrope. I still remember the first time I saw him on “Sungkyunkwan Scandal.” He looked good brooding. Too bad I can’t watch that now because of Park Yoochun’s scandal.
😂
From now on, your alias will be “LAmertume,” WEnchanteur.
I’m going to watch “Lupin” next on Netflix.
I once saw Marcel Marceau in a performance at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. He was fabulous, of course, but what I also found fascinating was watching the intermission discussions of a group of fellow theater-goers who carried on their commentary in sign language augmented by mime.
My favorite Paris arrondissement is the 18th, despite being removed from the city center, because I love Montmartre. Strolling up the steps of Sacré-Coeur to watch night fall over Paris is divine.
Because I’m currently watching Hot Stove League and am thoroughly impressed with the make lead’s acting chops (I’m not the only one: he won many top awards for that role), I nominate Namkoong Min to play the curmudgeon. He can convincingly switch from displaying ice in his veins to agonized vulnerability. There’s one scene in HSL where he declines to hold a team member’s baby, carefully accepts the precious bundle that is foisted on him despite his objection, then slowly breaks into sobs. I dissolved into a puddle of tears watching him.
Might as well make it a package deal and add Park Run Bin, the female lead in HSL as the ingenue. She plays–well, I might add–a more assertive character in HSL than she did as the FL in Do You Like Brahms? In light of those disparate roles, I imagine she’d have the range to portray a woman growing out of ingenue status.
Oops, I meant misanthrope, not curmudgeon. That’s a different archetype.
I’ll second @GB about smiling when I was reading the exchange here between you and @WEnchanteur. hahhaha
I will watch it on Valentines Day. Thanks! 🙂
I have three more recs for “Netflix and Chill.” It’s a series. 😂😂
OK! I’ll wait for it then. LOL! We have a series on BoD now, cool!
Lupin is quite good, I was over at parents house when they were watching it and I just couldn’t watch it properly because the boys and I were playing Monopoly. 🙂
I still can’t get over what “Netflix and chill” actually means or insinuates. Thank goodness I have not used it and I will avoid doing so. 😮 😂
Lupin on my watch list. Only 5 eps for season 1. That should be manageable with the long weekend coming up.
Thank you for the recommendation @packmule3
btw what are you guys watching now? I run out of things to watch. I haven’t finished the last 2 ep of TB maybe someday, mr.queen i speed watch just to catch up since i want to know how they end it. Looking forward to your other recommendation.
Right now?
I’m “dating” multiple dramas now. 🤪 Let me see:
I’m on Episode 3 of “W”
Ep 9 of “What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim”
Ep 4 of “Love Script” a Chinese drama with 24? episodes.
Ep 2 of “Lost Romance,” another Cdrama
Just finished the Hong Kongese movie “Lucky Star” with this Clive Owen lookalike.
Also about finished with the Hong Kong comedy movie, “Vampire Clean-Up Department” Vampiress falls in love with vampire-slayer.
Dropped “Love Clinic” — ugh! my eyes! my eyes! I didn’t expect to see porn on a Korean movie. What the heck? This should come with a warning.
Dropped @$#&$ “Black Devil and the White Prince.” There’s some serious kink going on this Japanese drama. The guy insists on “enslaving” the girl. 🤮
Writing a review for Indian movie “Jab We Met” for my “Netflix and Chill” series for Valentine’s Day. Also a review on “Class Rank” for “Netflix and Chill.” 😂
Haha..”dating multiple dramas”🤣🤣🤣 W is kind of mind-bending sometimes (same writer as MoA), but I kimd of liked it. Secretarý Kim was too mushy for me, and kind of repetitive and boring (and I hate PSJ, though I only watched it for PMY and her attires🙈🙈). I was watching Lost Romance when it was being aired and liked it, though need to finish it. I like the ML, brooding heroes are quite cool.
Yes. I can’t seem to “fall in love” with Park SeoJoon (is that his name?). I’m convinced that actors with moon or dumpling-like faces aren’t my type. Kim SeonHo (“Start-Up”) didn’t appeal to me because of his round face and his nonstop smiling.
I like actors with lean and craggy faces. Except Lee Dongwook. For some reason, he looked gaunt in his last drama and that didn’t appeal to me either.
But yes, I like Park MinYoung.
@Ella, my last kdrama is Start Up. 🙂 I’ll watch River Where The Moon Rises with the ladies here.
I wasn’t able to watch TB and Mr Queen so I’m sorry I can’t recommend anything to you. 🙂
Yes,@packmule3 I don’t like Park Seo Joon too..haha..I’m going to go for “dumpling face” as the reason too😛😛..because I didn’t like the second lead in Startup because he looked like PSJ🤣 So clearly I have a type I dislike, which you have just helped me identify 😜😜
I too like actors with chiseled, lean faces (like Hyun Bin😍)
I should never have answered this topic.
But it allows me to verify, once again, how ruthless the law of karma can be.
Maybe it’s not something you believe in, but for my part, I often observe this law in action. So by printing a negative reaction, I feel like I’ve created a boomerang effect, making the content ten times worse than the previous one.
Lupin… netflix…
Ok, I have to break the karma endless chain reaction.
I can’t say anything.
I just bet you have a good brain, strong enough. 😉
Woooo, Packmule, you are in drama rampage !!
I never manage to watch several dramas at the same time.
I’ve only seen the first 8 episodes of “secretary kim”. I’ve never seen a drama that has so many clichés, but at the same time it’s nice to watch.
W episode 3, so many funny scenes. My favorite: when the store manager explains to Yeon So-Hee what she saw. The whole dialog is gold. It’s both what happened, and what don’t happened. And she ends with the time they spent in the fitting room. She does a long “crrrrrrr” when she says the word “looooong time”.
Now that this topic has become a bit free to talk about everything, I’m doing my official drama reporting!
It’s my time reporting, just like at work.
Seeing dramas is a lot of work, and even more to finish dramas we hadn’t finished.
I finished Train! Yooo!
I finished Backstreet Roockie! Yooo!
I was supposed to retake “Psycho Ok” from Episode 6, but I didn’t have the willpower. T T
So I saw “Extracurrilar”, I’m on the last episode.
Rather a film spirit than a drama because it’s kind of immoral as a story. But rather well done. I was in it at the beginning. Then, nothing for two episodes, and finally I hooked on the 3rd episode.
I only watched the first few ep of sec kim and dropped it since I’m not into the plot. I prefer her private life that one is funny.
W was okay at first but then the story got more and more convoluted at the end.
@agdr03
Yes river where the moon rises is on my watchlist as well.
Thanks for the recommendation n review, pm3! Quirky story, amusing n entertaining 😀
2uke! You were supposed to watch it on Valentine’s Day!! lol. I hope your GF liked it, too. 🙂
Join us for Start Up then?
Haha, no GF-only ex. A lone 🐺 … See you all at rewatch 🙂
@pm3 Just FYI, Chinese drama Love Script is now at Amazon Prime Video. All 24 episodes available with English subtitles.
I put it out there in case you do not want to wait for Viki.
Really? Woohoo! Thanks. I’ll repost this on the “Blessed Girl” thread for @agdro03 to see, too.
Howdy! 👋🏻
I watched this last Saturday and I thought it was good for my first French film. The FL is pretty! ☺️ Some thoughts below:
– The shenanigans on who wins the noise game was good. 😂
– Playing the Chopin piano scene was equivalent to that famous When Harry Met Sally scene, don’t you think? 😂
– The pigeons mirroring the main leads. ☺️
– I thought their set up was weird but no, they made it work and even that dinner with her sister and his best friend was good. 😁
– Isn’t her sister married already? But she went with the ML lead’s bf after the recital? 😬
– There’s truly something about the French language that draws you.
I enjoyed this one, thanks for the recommendation. 😊👍🏻
@agdr03 I couldn’t watch this last weekend, girlfriend..planning to do that this weekend, since both Queen and you liked it🙌 Thanks to both you and @packmule3 for the recommendation 😊
Watch it girlfriend @Phoenix, you’ll enjoy it too. It has it funny moments as well. ☺️
Agdr03, 🤪
I knew you’d understand the “climax” scene during the Chopin scene. Yes, it’s similar to the cafeteria scene in WHMS when Sally faked an orgasm but Machine wasn’t faking her ecstasy. Passion was finally awakened in her.
For me, though, the sexy element here was NOT the image of the girl’s “release” (e.g., her hair undone, buttons popping), but the fact that the guy was guiding here through every bit of her “intimate” moment. It’s like a partner-in-bed helping her get the “Big O” while he constrains his own “sexual urges.” 😂
Yes, the competitive noise-making was hilarious! And yes, there’s something about the metronome’s steady beat that’s maddening. Kinda like the steady dripping of water from a leaky faucet. But he really was an inventor. Did you notice the slip-on foam he designed for his shoes so he wouldn’t make a sound?
Yes, the pigeons mirroring the couple. I laughed when the male pigeon got pooped on.
Yes, the sister was a bored and promiscuous housewife. She was into “liaisons,” another French thing like the ingenue and misanthrope.
The dinner was hilarious! It was very thoughtful of Machin and Machine to introduce their closest friend and sister to each other. That’s something we normally do when we date somebody. But having a dinner with the wall separating them?!
And did you notice the closing credit? “Mama’s house” and “Papa’s house” were marked on the map. Lol.
Also like that he used his beloved Ultimax to break through the wall. And that’s the end of self-enforced exile.
Oh yes, I understood that Machine finally unleashed her passion in playing the piano with Machin’s guidance. She really sounded awesome and that’s the start of their relationship really. ☺️
The metronome would have made me crazy too. 🤪
The dinner showed who can cook too. 😂 I liked that the friend and sister didn’t judge them both by having that dinner.
Yup, I noticed that he used his Ultimax to break down the wall.
The credit showed that they stayed on their side of the wall even after having kids. 😁
I can’t talk about o and s because I’ve still got ashes on my head. 😇 I was so happy to see our church almost full tonight. 🥰
I’ll be good starting tonight.
Do you have any good fish or seafood recipes? The thought of eating just fish fillet for Lent is making me cranky.
For fish, try my favourite baked salmon or trout with oyster sauce and lemon. You just put it on top and squeeze the lemon too, you can cut some lemons and put on top of the fish too. Cover in foil then baked for 15 minutes or maybe less. I think any fish will be ok but I like it with salmon and trout. ☺️
I’ll try to find the Instagram link where I got 5 variations on baked salmon and forward to you. I’ve given up Instagram as part of my Lenten devotion but I have a copy on my email, I think. ☺️
Oyster sauce? Interesting. I just recently discovered oyster sauce in cooking. It started when I bought the Korean BBQ grills. I wanted to give the ribs an authentic taste so instead of using our regular BBQ sauce, I looked up a Korean recipe. It called for oyster sauce. 😂
So I can also use oyster sauce too on fish? Duh! 🤦♀️ I totally forgot it had “oyster” in its name since I couldn’t taste the oysters. I thought it was just some sort of ketchup but sweeter.
Thanks. Will try it next time. This sounds easy.
Yes, that oyster sauce. ☺️ I’m sure the ribs marinated in the Korean recipe turned out good yeah? 😁
Let me know how you go. I hope you’ll like it. 😊
There were so many ingredients added for flavor that the ribs had no choice but to taste great. I used mirin sauce (first time ever), oyster sauce, soy sauce, Asian pears, ginger, and garlic. And I marinated the ribs overnight. If the ribs didn’t come out savory after all that, then there’s something wrong with the beef itself. 😂
We usually just add salt and pepper when grilling steak. Or brush it with bbq sauce when it’s about ready.
Edited: I also added sesame oil to the marinade bec I couldn’t find sesame seeds.
For shame, @packmule3. Now I’m hungry for ribs when I should be thinking of less meat. 🙂😉 Your recipe sounds so good.
With the salmon, could I recommend a recipe using pesto brushed on as a sauce? Easy as, if you are in a hurry too. Last week my older daughter hijacked my salmon supper by taking my potion-sized fillets and frying them in a bit of olive oil, with crushed garlic, fresh rosemary, salt and pepper. She cooked them for about 8 mins only; just until the moment she could flake them. I wouldn’t ever have considered rosemary for salmon, but the flavour wasn’t overwhelming at all.
Sorry, ‘portion’ not potion.
Whoops. Sorry. You’re right. Why am I talking of meat today of all days!
Yes. Pesto is my other go-to sauce after the lemon and pepper.
Maybe I should open a thread on Wednesday/Thursday for seafood recipes?
Wait a second. I’ll open one, and you can post your pesto sauce there. I usually just buy a bottle from Costco but it’s about time I learn to make it from scratch.
The seafood recipes are a great idea – just enough time before Fridays to get the ingredients. Bottled pesto is fine, as long as it’s good enough quality to eat on your pasta as well. Yum. Lemon and pepper (capers, too?)
Although it’s a bit cross-referencing of religions, my mom sometimes made latkes for Friday suppers.
Latke looks yummy @Fern. ☺️
I’ll try pesto next time too. My boys like it with gnocchi but I’ve never tried it at home. I really should.
Queen, we do our steaks the same. 👍🏻
Off topic. @agdr03, did you have basil pesto in Italy? I’ve had it with gnocchi or pasta, but the most authentic was pasta layered over sliced potatoes and green beans. -So could be served on a meat-free day even though it’s so delicious it should be sinful. I had an Italian housemate who used to make home made gnoccchi. So hard if you’re not used to doing it. So filling, too!