A weekend of haute Wednesday, Jan 30 2008

So Meg and I headed up to New Hampshaa this past weekend for a bit of skiing and some quiet time at this great B&B.  The Twin Doors was fantastic, great rooms, wicked nice older couple that ran the place and some killer breakfast each morning.  The drive up Thursday night was great, we even made it though the GW bridge without incident, a cool 6 hour drive, even with a stop of Connecticut’s Largest cooking store.  Dinner that night was a local brew house, food was OK, but the beer was pretty good, I even think Buddy would have approved. I had the IPA, followed by the Stout, both excellent! The next morning we awoke to 5* temps, but a clear sky for a great day of skiing, if you can call what we do skiing.  Breakfast was some wonderful French Toast with warm fruit compote and bacon as accompaniments.   This was NOT your normal, take some bread dredge it in egg mixture and through it on the skillet.  It was some haute French Toast!  It was baked in a cassarole dish, it consisted of torn bread, cream cheese, and the standard egg mixture.  It was creamy and wonderful the only downer was the New Hampshire Maple Syrup it came with, that aside it WILL be on my weekend menu in the near future (with VERMONT syrup of course).  After fueling up, it was off to the Mt. Sunapee for day 1 on the slopes.  Meg and I don’t ski much, she’s been a few times in the past couple years and I haven’t been for, ummm, about 12 years (and that was only 1 day).  I will say, I did a lot more snowboarding back in day, and got pretty good at that, however I figured we’d both try skiing, as it would level the playing field a bit.  Well, it was a learning experience.  Good thing I learn quick.  After the first run, falling mulitple times, I was pretty much ready to call it a day and get a board.  I stuck it out and by the end of day two, was railing some turns pretty well and felt comfortable on skis, not quite to the snowboard level I have, but getting there for sure.

  

 

 

Big lake, frozen, yeah it was cold!

 On to breakfast two.  Some nice yoghurt with fresh fruit to start then onto some homemade (what else) waffles with caramelized banana topping.  Yeah, they rocked, but at this point, I wasn’t surprised.  I surprised our host with how quickly I put her food away, what can I say, I’m an eater.

 Our final evening there, we ventured into town for a bit of the local Haute.   My meal started with a nice salad, mixed greens, apples, dried cherries, walnuts, and some maple balsamic dressing, it was light, sweet and satisfying.  I moved onto a peppercorn encrusted venison (medium rare) with whipped potatos and some mixed veg.  I have to say, I generally enjoy peppercorn encrusted meats, but this was a little off.  Too much pepper hit the back of my throat and made the taste too spicey for me.  Even the cherry demi glace was not enough to sweeten up the meal.  The potatos were very good however, needed a bit of salt, but with some sour cream whipped in, they were quite tastey.  The meal finished off with a medicore single malt of Glenlivet (the waitress was like a deer in headlights when I asked for single malt) and some chocolate mouse pie.  The pie was nice, but nothing to write home about (or blog for that matter.)

 

All in all a great weekend away, and it made getting up for the job on Monday very difficult indeed.