
Ilya and I are having steak tartare for dinner tonight. Along with some toasted bread, green salad and potato gratin.
If you're not familiar with this dish, steak tartare is a finely chopped raw beef fillet that is usually served with pickles, mustard and a raw egg yolk. My relationship with steak tartare has developed along the same lines as with oysters: from incomprehension to interest to passionate love. Though I never had that nose wrinkling abhorrence towards steak tartare, at first I simply skipped it in menus and went to safer items. But with times I came to a conclusion that sticking to safe and familiar food is not only boring, but limiting as well. If you don’t try new things, you rob yourself of new impressions, pleasant surprises, great finds. You stop growing.
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