Food & Wine

Back in May of 2013, I visited South Africa’s wine country an hour or so north of Cape Town for a couple days and loved it.  As you can see…

Back in April 2015 I flew down to Buenos Aires and then, with a little help from my good friend Silvana, drove cross-country to Mendoza (an 11-hour ordeal made longer…

That’s a heck of a wine flight.

So I bought some wine in the Barossa Valley.  It’s true.  Now I’m cataloging it all and putting together the list of places I’ve been.  It’s data entry of the best kind.  When it’s done, I’ll have pins in Google Maps & I’ll have bottles listed in Cellar Tracker. Somehow, I intend to cross-reference them, but I’m not sure how.  Really, there should be some way to marry the two things into one database that both sites (and others!) can query for the relevant info.  Sorry, nerdigression.

One thing’s for sure, if Wanderlust ever happens, I’ll have an assistant to do most of this stuff for me.  Fun! Big picture and a bit more blather after the break.

I am not as good at eggs as I should be. I cook them very rarely, and almost never over-medium, the way I like them in the diner.  I think…

I bottled my second batch of wine!

It’s another kit wine, this time from “Cru Select.”

I don’t have any pictures yet, but I racked.  In less than 2 weeks, we’ll have bottled wine, which is exciting.  If I ever get paid again, I’ll be buying…

So the week of soups comes to its thrilling conclusion, culminating in what Casey said was her favorite soup: Custom Tortilla Soup.

It’s custom because I didn’t want to make chicken tortilla because we had awesome chicken noodle earlier in the week and I didn’t want to compete with my own product.

So I made Broccoli Cheese Soup.

Two days down of my year’s first culinary experiment, and so far, I’m a happy camper. (Soon, I’d like to be a *real* camper, but that’s another story.)

First, as you probably saw on Facebook, I made Beef stew.

Welcome to 2012, the home of culinary experimentation.

I’m going to play with themes-by-week this year, and I’m starting with soups.

On our day off in Long Island, I went wine tasting all by me onesies.

Bottling: complete! If you’re interested, you can read the entire story right here. The wine is good, if a little fruity and low-alcohol, but for an all-natural wine that I…

And to prove it, I bring you this: Tonight, I mixed Sunday night’s leftover Bell Pepper Stuffing (a chicken-based dish with rice and onion, etc.) with Monday night’s leftover Chili…

Last night, I made a tasty wine sauce to compliment some broiled London Broil that I made.  Scott showed me a broiling trick with tin foil that I”d never seen…

Okay, so this is the caprese that we made last night.

I’m in a couple, and I like them. I sort of feel like I should join something else, something with a little more variety, since my two clubs sort of…