Tegan ladled the chicken, with it's sauce, into his bowl and then scooped a fragrant, large spoonful of potatoes and a good portion of the vegetables as he spoke.  His small touches and heated caresses making it hard for her to concentrate, but so wonderfully gently sensuous she wouldn't have missed out on them for the world.  It was hard to leave his side and sit opposite him, the words 'taste everything' echoing and reverberating down into her core.  She took a deep swallow of the wine to calm herself before she placed her napkin and dished herself up with some dinner.<br/><br/>"Yes, there are similarities with coq au vin," she said, as she spooned a thicken thigh into her bowl. She wasn't going to expound on them, or start sounding like a cooking aficionado.  She just loved to cook real food, "That grouse sounds wonderful, there's a recipe I like for it that uses blackberries, very rich and autumnal that might have some similarities too, although I must say I love them cooked very simply, wrapped in bacon with shallots, garlic and thyme."<br/><br/>As she heaped a little pile of potatoes on her plate, she added conspiratorially, "I'm afraid I must to confess to a well-kept secret, on the farm I grew up on, I was taught to catch my game as well as eat it, not very feminine I know – I was a terrible tomboy, and I still love country ways."<br/><br/>She was silent for a moment, the drift of the past interrupting her thoughts, the life she'd lost achingly clear.  It wasn't often she gave into nostalgia and she quickly focused back on the task in hand and the man opposite her. "And when it comes to tickling a trout and them eating fresh from a camp fire, the gamekeeper nearly turned me into a poacher." She laughed, as that was very true, and she'd been soundly spanked for going to fish on a neighbours estate without permission because she'd heard they had bigger fish.  "I was a naughty girl too, endlessly in trouble........" Tegan thought of their introduction at the baths, and added mischievously, before popping a small potato into her mouth, "I think we can safely say I still am....."