I forgot to write about one part of the family’s trip. A little blast from my wine past…. One early afternoon, we saved BK from work and drove up Highway 84, winding as always but minus the cyclists. First stop: Alice’s Restaurant, where the burgers are divine and the motorcycles are plenty. Next, we drove along […]
Last night was a marathon session of good food, good wines, and good times. Rosenblum Cellars was having a party for our former shareholders, and my friend Kelly was working the wine club table. Meanwhile, Trisha came over and she and BK helped me get dinner together while we waited for the party to […]
On Sunday, we were down in the Cupertino area for bottling wine (post to soon follow), and I discovered that BK had never been to Ridge. Well, we were right there! As I mentioned before, my plan had been to visit Testarossa due to my recent Pinot Noir obssession, as I definitely am not suffering […]
Here are the last few scenes from my trip back to Mississippi.
Celebrating the holidays twice really gives cause for guilt about calorie overload. When we had the fried turkey, my mom made all my favorites: macaroni and cheese, broccoli rice, asparagus casserole, and cornbread stuffing. You know—comfort food—full of butter, cheese, and mama’s love. As […]
I promise, this is the final installment from KB’s visit….it’s just that we went to so many wineries while she was here. And I don’t even know if she’s been enjoying her bottles.
I had to take her, of course, to Thomas Fogarty Winery. Not only because the wine is good and the view is great, […]
BK was counting down the opening of Dungeness crab season for weeks. The first day, he and the cellar rat went out on the pier in Pacifica and later to Half Moon Bay with their traps and their lines. By the end of the day, they had six or seven rock crabs each, as the […]
My last post reminded me of another meal that was thrown together out of slight desperation. When I had planned to make lamb to go with the Twisted Oak Spaniard–to no avail–I had to regroup and rethink. Without much else in the fridge, I opted to grill up some chicken and apple sausages. With an […]
This is another meal where I decided on the wine first and concocted a recipe to make the food pair with it. Having been craving Pinot Noir, I pulled an unlabeled Thomas Fogarty from my stash. Made from grapes from the Santa Cruz Mountains, mostly estate, I think, it ended up being a little more […]
The first actual meal in the new apartment was pizza delivery that I ordered for the moving gang (BTW, thanks, Tyler, Tony, Char, Lorraine, and BK!) However, the first meal I ‘cooked’ was not that much more special. I had some thawed tomato sauce– that I carted with me from the other freezer– which I […]
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