In my household I have the reputation for being more of a “health nut”, always looking for creative recipes for leaner proteins, loads of veggies, salads and appetizers. Hubby, on the other hand, is all about the meat; constantly trying to get me to eat more. So I was far from surprised when he woke [...]
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Today I am speaking at the 4th annual American Wine Bloggers Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia on the topic of Wine & Food Pairing so I thought I’d let you in on some of the goods. As soon as I have a link to the video of the presentation I promise to post it here… even [...]
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BK (“before kids”) I used to spend a great deal of my free time either cooking, planning what I want to be cooking, or shopping for ingredients. I would spend my weekend mornings watching The Food Network, flipping through food magazines, and coordinating a way to spend my afternoon cooking. I used to frequent the [...]
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This past Saturday I did something I’ve been putting off for a long time. Inspired by Open That Bottle Night (OTBN) I opened two bottles of wine that I never quite found the right occasion to do so. They were not my most expensive, rare, or oldest wines. They were just wines that had a [...]
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It's almost here. The holiday embraced by food and wine lovers all over the country. Thanksgiving!!! If you’re anything like me and do most of your grocery shopping last minute, don’t worry. I have some great last minute wine ideas for your holiday dinner. Now this post was written last year as my Thanksgiving wine [...]
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A couple weeks back we had some friends over for dinner. The plan, they bring the wine, we come up with food to pair with the wine. They had a couple of nice Italian wines they wanted to drink so our challenge was to come up with something to pair with a ’97 Brunelleo (made [...]
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I went berry picking with a friend the other day at Kruger’s Farm on Sauvie Island and after picking an abundance of raspberries we perused their market for additional goodies when I spotted a 10 lb bag of beets. Mind you, I’ve never bought raw beets before, and have just recently grown fond of them. [...]
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Trying to explore as much Oregon as I can before moving to the Northeast, I accepted an invitation to a wine and food pairing lunch a couple weeks back hosted by WillaKenzie Estate Winery. Lunch consisted of a five-course food and wine pairing prepared by Chef Andy Arndt of Aquariva that turned out to be [...]
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While preparing for a recent Intro to Wine and Food pairing class I polled a few friends and family members from outside the area to ask what would they want to learn about if they took a class on wine and food paring. Their responses were quite humbling to me. I was prepared for them to [...]
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