I am getting older this week. We all are, I suppose, but my number is about to go up by one. 39!
This blog is going to list my favourite 39 things which are absolutely worth every penny of every dollar they cost.
1. Nowhere to start but with real Champagne. Vintage.
2. Pay for organic lemons, especially when you get hooked on using the zest and don't want chemical spray residue in your food.
3. A great 5 ounce filet.
4. Italian Parmeggiano Reggiano
5. Italian Piave Stravecchio - it is truly incredible.
6. The "upgrade" charge for sweet potatoe fries if you absolutely must have fries.
7. Fresh herbs - rosemary, sage, parsley, thyme, mint, chive, lemon balm, basil, pineapple sage, lemon basil, purple basil, thai basil.
19. Organic Butter.
20. Premade puff pastry and phyllo dough.
22. Organic Eggs and Poultry.
24. Italian San Daniele Proscuitto.
25. Ripe raspberries which you picked right off the bush and blueberries from Klassen's. Purple tongue optional.
27. White balsamic vinegar.
28. San Marzano Tomatoes.
29. Saffron.
30. Fresh, bright pink ahi tuna.
31. Dark chocolate.
32. Dark, french roasted coffee.
33. Whole vanilla pods, containing a million tiny fragrant flavour-licious vanilla beans.
34. Fresh pasta, for the time savings alone.
35. Avocado.
36. Concord grapes.
37. A tiny split of real champagne, (when you don't need a whole bottle) even if it costs you $25 for two little glasses to celebrate an occasion worth celebrating, and the 18 year old kid selling it to you shouts out "$25?????" when you're in line and you have to explain QUICKLY why champagne is worth the extra dough before he will let you leave the store.
38. Fleur de sel.
39. Black truffles.
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