So this was Sunday's cigar and pairing after having smoked a La Duena on Saturday with some beef; we lit up some La Palinas on Sunday with a Banana/Vanilla milkshake and two kinds of cheeses.
I had a Mr. Sam Corona, and she had an El Diario Kill Bill. I'm not sure if Mr. Sam is from the Family Series or El Diario, but they had the same band on them. [Looked it up, it's neither; Mr. Sam is its own line.]
This was a somewhat milder cigar than La Duena that I smoked yesterday, and it went well with the milk shake, cheeses, and chocolate that we had with it.
To make the milkshake, I took a full banana, several scoops of ice cream, and filled the container the rest of the way with milk, and blended it in a Magic Bullet. Girlfriend had also suggested adding some caramel to it, but we both forgot when we actually did the mixing, an omission I would later regret.
The cigar had a nutty flavor to it, as well as some natural sweetness, and was lighter than the Connecticut Broadleafs we smoked on Saturday. The nuttiness and sweetness worked well with the Banana/Vanilla milkshakes, kind of like making a Banana Split with the nutty sweet flavor of the cigar, and the banana and the vanilla ice cream in the milkshake. At this point, I remembered that we forgot to add the caramel that the GF had suggested, as the cigar started to yield some caramel flavors as well.
The Gouda cheese worked really well with the cigar as it was sweet, smooth and creamy like the cigar was, but not so much the Asiago. This was way too strong a cheese for La Palina, and overwhelmed it. You'll see in the pictures that the Gouda went pretty quickly, and we barely ate half of the Asiago, before we put it up and back in the refrigerator. Now, I had bought the Gouda FOR this pairing, expecting it to work well; we only brought the Asiago out since we had forgotten to put it on the asparagus from Saturday's pairing, and we had it. When we put away the Asiago cheese, GF returned with a bag of Milk Chocolate Nestle's chips, and we finished off the cigar with some chocolate chips. Which worked well with the dessert/sweet theme.
Pics/album: http://ift.tt/21OOLcr
(I mistyped "La Sirena" in the album title when I meant to type "La Palina", but it was a La Palina as you can see by the pictures. Imgur allows you to edit the captions of individual pictures, but not of the album as a whole, and I didn't feel like re-uploading the whole album because of a typo.)
Submitted May 09, 2016 at 09:21PM by lurker_to_poster http://ift.tt/1XhgstU cigars
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