Depending on how closely you follow this blog, you may or may not recall my making a pledge — a resolution if you will — regarding Food & First Fridays. What I resolved to do was try and make at… Read More ›
Food & Wine Pairing
Discussions and comments related to pairing foods and wines.
What’s Up Lunch?: The Take & Bake Pizza Chronicles
Greetings all! Readers of this blog may be familiar with a series of postings we’ve run over the past couple of years; our “What’s Up Lunch?” series, in which we document unique luncheon pairings with our wines. Well, I’m not… Read More ›
Wine & Food: Tagine de Mouton & Library Old School!
There is a great deal of culinary mojo percolating at Ridge Vineyards these days; tendrils of gourmand dew twinkling morning leaves, wisps of foodie mist twisting through siesta trees, an epicurean moon, halo’d with the light of evening kitchens. We’re hungry, we’re cooking,… Read More ›
Bryant Terry, The Inspired Vegan, and Ridge Vineyards!
As you may know, I am a lover of the “unorthodox” when it comes to pairing wine and food. And by “unorthodox,” I do not mean, for example, molecular gastronomy. I do not consider “foam” to be unorthodox at this time…. Read More ›
First Friday: Cookin’!
As noted in a previous post, I’ve a resolution for the year; I’m going to try and prepare at least one dish myself for every First Friday event here at Monte Bello. Best as I can tell, January’s endeavour went… Read More ›
Oh, What A Wine We Had! Winter Wineland 2012 …
Our intrepid shutterbug was at it again! What, didn’t notice her? There, in the shadows! She’s capturing the heat of the moment as it shows in your eyes! She’s like Darkman, everywhere and nowhere, everyone and no one. She’s The Shadow…. Read More ›
Belated Holiday Wine Highlights: My Top 3!
Silly, really, that it’s already the 14th of January, 2012, and I’m only just now getting to this post. But as I’m still reasonably certain the concerns of Y2K and Enron were in fact front and center only a few years… Read More ›
