Do Big Rich Cabs Really Go With Steak?
A wine dinner is a great opportunity to challenge your assumptions. With an open mind, you might be surprised! My confession? I thought I would hate all the big, rich cabs. To my surprise, several were very nice. Now I just need to figure out how to ferret them out. After juggling multiple work schedules, … Continue reading
CSA Box Meets Kitchen Garden
One of the best challenges with the CSA has been figuring out how to use new ingredients, not necessarily the ones we would choose while shopping at the farmers market. Watermelon radishes are beautiful and they offer a nice crunch. The radish tops make nice hearty salad greens. However, they are pepper bombs when raw! … Continue reading
Watermelon Radish Salad & Lioco Rosé
A refreshing glass of rosé and a nice salad are just right on a hot summer night. Continuing on our local theme, much of this salad is built from a our CSA box and local farmer’s market produce. The combination of peppery crunch from the radishes, the sweet fruit and the salty feta provide satisfying … Continue reading
Spring Pea Basil Risotto and a Pair of Piedmont Wines
I might not choose to serve risotto on the hottest day of the summer, but it makes a fine dinner on days when the A/C is off and the windows are open. Risotto’s historic home is the Piedmont area of Italy, so we decided to match the meal with wines from the same area. We … Continue reading
CSA Meatless Monday: Wines for Sriracha Sauce
One Pan Curried Kale Medley Today’s Meatless Monday recipe is a spicy one pan meal featuring ingredients from our CSA box. Sriracha sauce is pretty spicy, but we found a couple of wines that gracefully handled the heat. Jean-Paul Brun Terres Dorees Beaujolais 2011 ($14) There are very few red wines that pair nicely with … Continue reading
Eat Local – CSA Veggies, Lamb & a Summer Syrah
Bossy Acres CSAWe received our first Bossy Acres CSA box this week! It’s a little like opening the mystery box in those cooking shows on TV, but that’s part of the fun. Radishes – Summer Salad Stars 1st challenge: We would be getting radishes in this delivery. Radishes aren’t one of our everyday vegetable choices, … Continue reading
Kermit Lynch Wine Dinner at Pairings
Wine dinners at Pairings Food & Wine in Minnetonka are always a treat. Tonight, we had the pleasure of an all Kermit Lynch wine selection paired with special dishes by Chef Mike. Anissa, the manager at Pairings and Eric from New France Wine Company were our hosts to this special evening. (click on any photo … Continue reading
A Nice Budget Mourvèdre
You might like to try a Mourvèdre, but you say you don’t have $50 burning a hole in your pocket? How about $15? I wanted to see if I could find a Mourvèdre (French or American) that is widely available and less than $20. I haven’t found a French one yet, but the Cline Cellars … Continue reading
More Mourvèdre Please
Say that three times fast! We usually try to match the wine with the food pretty carefully, but sometimes “Eat what you like with what you like to drink” is what happens. On this particular Sunday afternoon, I was knee-deep in my Mourvèdre investigation, and we decided we wanted to try a couple of recipes … Continue reading
Mourvèdre: Unpronounceable
So you want to buy some Mourvèdre, but how in the world do you pronounce it? “Move Over Dear?” You’re in luck, just click here. It’s kind of fun! Of course, the French ones will be Bandol, which is easier but less fun to pronounce. Today we’re trying another Bandol classic with an American Mourvèdre … Continue reading
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