Greed alert. Were you to be planning potatoes dauphinois(es), what would you have it as a side dish TO?

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That's about it.
Recommendations, please?

Steak

Rack of lamb

Roast chicken and spinach

Or more potato dauphinoise

lamb chops and peas

A lamb or steak dish with green beans.

Classically - Rack of Lamb but it goes well with just about any grilled/roasted meat.

deffo beef! Yum!

Gosh you lot are brilliant.

Have to say - Carmenere - it's what classically goes with what that was direly left out of my education. Do you just "know" these things, or is there somewhere I can look it up?

Oooh is this you?

Bink, you can also have it with puy lentils in red wine. Which is very very easy: red wine, stock (made, obv), lentils, some chopped sundried tomatoes. Bingo.

Which also gives you an edge of Smug Virtue enabling you to snarf dauph with impunity.

Larousse Gastronomique is where you find out that kind of thing. I ate a copy of it in my 20's so I just know that kind of stuff now

roast lamb (says dh)

red cabbage with apples

Something sauce-less, like some well-cooked steak or fish.

if you want to feel more virtuous, chuck some finely chopped smoked bacon on top of the potatoes and have with a green salad. yum.

Roast lamb that has been seasoned with rosemary and masses of garlic and cooked in a very hot oven (250°). Lamb should be really frazzled on the outside, very pink in the centre. The potatoes counterbalance the seasoning/juices in the meat brilliantly.

If you were French you would also serve haricots verts with this.

You all continue to be marvellous.

We have just come back from demi-pensioning in France where (quite truthfully) ds & dd ate almost nearly everything proposed by Madame, including a saffron soup with mussels in and an aubergine terrine. And they adored the chick peas that came with the cod in red wine. I have come back all woffly with pride & must keep up the standards.