Wild Boar Bacon Lardons. Garlic Scapes. Grilled Champagne Mango. Kalamata Olives. Each delicious by itself... cooked perfectly, pleasing to the eye and ear and yet, my god, what a complete failure. A Salad at war with itself. A disunion of flavors. Utter disaster. A failure only magnified mispairing it with a chilled 8 dollar Tempranillo.
Sometimes this happens. Not usually this badly.
The feral boar bacon (from Savenours) has an intense taste, balanced by a strong hickory smoke. I've been eating for breakfast with oatmeal (diced apples and brown sugar). Against that background, It wasn't clear how much this would take over a dish. The mango, a perfect foil for Chicken thigh, or Tilapia, got murdered here. Hickory + mango = yuck. The Scapes could hold their own combined with the lardons, and the combination even tasted good, but the textures and sizes meant you had a hard time getting these in your mouth at the same time, and, once there, you didn't like the way it felt. The Kalamatas also had enough oomph to stand up to the lardons, but the flavors refused to combine. Kalamata + Lardon = Kalmata + Lardon. The tastes alternate back and forth. Not exactly unpleasant, but not good either. Mango and olive, olive and scape, scape and mango.... all failures. It is hard to combine four good ingredients and have nothing work together. Misfiring on all cylinders today.
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