I tried something new tonight, tartiflette, a French comfort food. It has a layer of boiled potatoes in slices. There are onions fried with cubes of pork belly, wine for deglazing, and that goes on top of the potatoes, then topped with cheese (Traditionally it's Reblechon de Savoie, a "soft washed-rind and smear-ripened" cheese. It is made from unpasteurized milk, so it's not available in North America. We used a Quebec made, copycat cheese.). The cheese is round and cut in half along the equator to make two rounds. By the time I had gotten the tartiflette in the oven, I was pretty pooped out, so it was a very simple salad to go with it - mizuna, thinly sliced Belgian endive, Boston lettuce, a few leaves of sorrel, and some thinly sliced onion, topped with homemade vinaigrette; I made a decent sized batch of vinaigrette last week.
Anyhoo, it was good and we will be doing this again, with tweaks.
