Drinking, which could be in Christmas.

I willn’t tell that Christmas was pagan’s festivity for whom it was greeting of the sun when days become longer and nights shorter, which similar festival of Juvenalia was in celebration in Roman Empire and stayed to have a place after Constantine turned state to Christianity in 312, but conquering influence Christians took that date and made own festivity. I like this day for it’s hovering atmosphere of mystery and magic. Hyping look on decorations and all staff with Santa Claus on news on TV and films of past century, because I haven’t alternative opportunity to get it.
Not so far in time I rewatched a great comedy Le gendarme a New York (Gendarme in New York) (1965) with Louis de Funes, which had a scene of magnificent French cooking in a large slice of beef. I noted that dish for Christmas dinner.

Frying of one side willn’t make meat cooked and I didn’t keep preciseness as in a film. I had three big pieces of beef, which every side I fried three times for three minutes on brown butter with added vegetable oil on which I fried pieces of garlic. I dropped multiple cuts of onion on meat, which both sides were salted and peppered before lying on a pan. Little bit time later I smeared on the dish a French volume of mustard on two sides. I hadn’t or better to write this country hasn’t large herbs as in the film and I used cut dill and parsley. Then both sides of beef were smeared in a butter. That’s dish smelled fantastic without using of the next ingredient on which appeared a thought to don’t add it, but I poured. A bottle of cheap Italian wine Decordi Vino Rosso Secco was open and I drank a little bit ” (it can see in the film that this is a part of receipt.) of this “grape waste feeling”, which later will “not bad” and cost of own price then. Of course, I would prefer to use a French wine, but I got the Italian one. I balanced to make meat saturated by wine and not boiled in which I succeeded. Beef was cooked. I put lying ingredients on dish and later was using liquid for pouring. It was edible and became excellent with ketchup. Italian bottle of Palazzo Della Torre Veronese of 2016 was a Christmas wine, which was for dish. All stages of greatness in using of it. Uncomfortable in swallowing and sometimes in rinsing where I was getting taste of fake feeling of soda.

I hadn’t in mind to drink Decordi Vino Rosso Secco next to finished Palazzo Della Torre Veronese. I was going to use that bottle for making gluhwein, which is my new hobby happened after great frustration. One bar was leaving in this country in which I didn’t disappoint. A place with jukefox where for a coin can listen The Doors. All tables were busied in my last visit leaving chairs of bar counter in availability. I ordered gluhwein. My eyes saw that wine of my adorable drink from Tetra Pak. Did I tell story about wine with a screw cap? If shortly – it doesn’t make me happy. I saw offensive on what was doing with my drink. And that waitress, as addition to bad, wasn’t of cultured behavior. So, I didn’t see that blacklisted bar since that day (it was a week or two weeks ago.) and decided to do this drink by myself. The cheap Italian wine wasn’t turned into gluhwein in that ongoing Christmas dinner where a tape recorder was playing Christmas songs of Dean Martin, Louis Prima, Perry Como, Bill Haley, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams. I understand these people.