One night earlier this week, I prepared one of my best meals in a while. Maybe it was the beer-battered catfish or the grapefruit, avocado, and goat cheese salad. Or even a really yummy preparation of brussel sprouts (sauteed shallots, leaves, pistachios, and lemon juice). All tied together with a bottle of Cremant de Limoux J. […]
Last week BK and I had quite the wonderful meal. We had picked up a duo of really thick New York steaks, so he prepared one in the oven on a slow bake before searing it. Meanwhile, artichokes were boiling away, as were potatoes, waiting to be mashed. At the same time, I was opening a bottle of […]
I know it’s a bit of a stretch, and if I have anything tonight it will probably be a margarita…
However. Don’t rule out wine for Mexican food. The one choice that might make you happy is sparkling wine. It’s versatile enough to go with most foods, including spicy and salty versions. And many bottles tend to have […]
I’ve been thinking about this Wine Blogging Wednesday assignment for a while, different wine styles and varieties running through my head like determined marathon competitors. Would the winner be Petite Sirah: the first unusual variety I fell in love with over ten years ago? Gewurztraminer: that wonderful match for Thai food? Pinot Noir: the one I […]
….Just not in a restaurant. As a former waitress (for something like 9 years), I will never ever go out to eat on Valentine’s Day. Amateur night, we all called it, as it’s one of those evenings (New Year’s Eve is another) where people who don’t ever eat out come out of hiding and often ‘forget’ to […]
In my last Jackson Free Press column, I talked about getting over the overindulgence of the holiday season and shooting for a healthier meal plan. This is true through January, cause if you’ve been anything like me, these gloomy days of cold and rain have made it harder to exercise. Since I can’t cut wine […]
I received this Pommery Pink Pop for Christmas and decided to open the brut rose’ the other night when I only wanted one glass of wine with dinner. Since this bottle is 187 ml, it didn’t actually fill the flute, but it was close. I found notes of citrus and raspberry, reminiscent of the Pepperidge Farms cookies […]
The sparkling red I picked up from Domaine Chandon is the perfect holiday wine. First off, it’s red, so it’s the right color. Secondly, it’s bubbly–so the festivity is built in. This one, made from Pinot Noir and Zinfandel, bends itself closer to the characteristics of the second grape: chocolate, rich raspberry, and overall fullness. […]
Everyone gets so worked up about sparkling wine for New Year’s Eve. Which one to have, how much to spend, whether it needs to be the real stuff or not. Not that I think anything other than Champagne isn’t the real stuff. I adore sparkling wine. Hell, I’ve written it a sonnet. So I don’t need New […]
Good thing I was flipping through the latest Food & Wine on Christmas Eve because it gave me inspiration for breakfast the next morning. A quick trip to the grocery store got the two necessary ingredients as well as the fixin’s for mimosas, and Christmas morning found me before 7 am in the same place […]
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