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How To Make This Easy Homemade Chocolate Dipping Sauce Recipe

This Chocolate Dipping Sauce recipe makes a thick, delicious chocolate sauce that is both an elegant and fun dessert. Think chocolate fondue, but without the hassle of using a Sterno…

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Surf and Turf: The Best Steak and Lobster Wine Pairings

Steak and lobster wine pairings will become a bit less daunting with this guide. Steak and lobster or surf and turf brings to mind an elegant evening dining of fine…

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The Best Dinner Party Questions for Fun Conversation Starters

This post on dinner party questions will help you avoid awkward silence and maintain a lively conversation with your dinner guests. Plus you can get a printable version of 112…

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What Temperature to Store Red Wine | Best How To Guide

So, you finally started buying enough red wine that you need to store it, but do you know for how long or at what temperature to store red wine? Wine…

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The Raw Truth: Planning a Dinner Party

The Raw Truth about planning a dinner party is that things can, and probably will, go wrong. Raw!  The truth of the matter is it was raw in the middle! …

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  • Delicious and Easy Homemade Salsa Recipe
    Food,  Recipes

    Delicious and Easy Homemade Salsa Recipe

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    This is such a delicious and easy homemade salsa recipe that you’ll make it over and over. This Hot Stuff Salsa is bright, fresh, and very easy to make, but you control the heat! You can serve it as a condiment with any meal. You might be asking why you should make salsa when there are about 10,342 kinds on the shelves of grocery stores all across the nation. Not to mention those you can pick up at your local farmer’s market! NO, the best salsa is not from a grocery shelf. The Farmer’s Market is better, but it is less expensive to make homemade salsa and you can do…

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    RANI

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    Rose Wine in Glasses

    Come and Play! Vinho Verde Rosé, Casal Garcia

    08/26/2020
  • Easy Steps to Host your Double Date Dinner
    MENUS,  Plan Your Gathering,  Wine

    5 Easy Steps: Host Your Fabulous Budget-Friendly Double Date Dinner

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    Here are 5 easy steps to host your fabulous Double Date Dinner at home. And this budget-friendly menu will cost less than the price for one couple to eat out at a nice restaurant – wine included!

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    Baked Risotto with Butternut Squash an excellent Arborio Rice recipe

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  • Understand Wine and Food Pairing: How to Actually Savor your Amazing Adventure
    Blog,  Wine

    Understand Wine and Food Pairing: How to Savor your Amazing Adventure

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    Wine and food are meant to be together! But at home, or even in a restaurant, creating a good wine and food pairing is a challenge. Do you understand wine and food pairing? You may be surprised where your adventure of wine and food pairing takes you.

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    Dark Chocolate Bundt Cake with Red wine glaze on a glass cake stand

    How to Make a Striking Brunch Dessert | Recipe for Dark Chocolate Bundt Cake with Red Wine

    03/31/2022
    Prepared Dinner Party Questions Keep Conversation Lively

    The Best Dinner Party Questions for Fun Conversation Starters

    10/26/2023
    Sizzling platter of beef fajitas to cook for Father's Day

    Grill Out with this Phenomenal Father’s Day Fajitas Menu

    06/17/2020
  • American Sparkline Wine bottles
    Sparkling,  Wine

    American Sparkling Wine: The Case to Celebrate Amazing Local Bubbles

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    American Sparkling winemaking has a fresh approach which represents a new type of wine thinking where curiosity and experimentation are comingled with tradition and technique. Sparkling wine producers in America may very well have the key to boosting the category’s popularity even more and transform it from a purely special occasion or celebratory wine into an everyday drink.

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    Holiday Cocktails with Kahlua: A New White Russian Cocktail

    Holiday Cocktails with Kahlua: A New White Russian Cocktail

    12/08/2021
    Romantic table for two for a date night

    Heart Healthy Mouthwatering Menu for your Hottest Date Night

    01/19/2023
    Perfect Chocolate Soufflé from your Freezer

    Perfect Chocolate Soufflé from Your Freezer to the Oven

    01/25/2022
  • New Year's Resolution A Cooking Challenge
    Blog,  Food

    New Year’s Resolution: A Cooking Challenge

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    Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Did you think about a New Year’s resolution for a cooking challenge? Maybe you picked some of the standard resolutions like improving your health, weight loss, time for yourself, or self-improvement. Maybe you have a New Year’s resolution to connect more deeply with friends, family, or a significant other? A resolution involving cooking is a great way to start the New Year and meet your goals for better health, weight loss, self-improvement, and connection! And, it might even be a resolution that you can keep! Every year we start over. The calendar starts over. Our dreams get rebooted. Our desires are re-ignited. The…

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    The Best Grilled Broccoli Recipe is Magic Grilled Broccoli

    07/21/2021
    Holiday Cocktails with Kahlua: A New White Russian Cocktail

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    Complete fajitas dinner

    What to Serve with Fajitas – Easy Menu and Side Dishes

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  • Rose Wine in Glasses
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    Come and Play! Vinho Verde Rosé, Casal Garcia

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    Come and play with this Vinho Verde Rosé (you read it correctly) from Casal Garcia and you are going to smile like a kid! Don’t let the pink scare you, there is some good dry acidity in this fun-loving bottle!

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    Mediterranean Pasta Salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, kalamata olives, herbs and feta cheese

    An Easy Pasta Salad Recipe to Cool Down Your Next Cookout

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    Happy Mother's Day Card to give when you cook her this Simple Mother's Day Brunch Menu

    Make Your Special Mom a Beautiful Mother’s Day Brunch

    05/01/2020
    Best wine pairing with beef fajitas

    Guide for the Best Wine Pairing with Beef Fajitas

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  • Labor Day Grilling Menu
    MENUS,  Recipes

    Grill Out for Labor Day

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    Heat up your grill for Labor Day! Here is a complete menu and step-by-step guide to help make your Labor Day stress free. This year, well, this year continues to be different. With a nod to recommended size limitations and CDC guidelines for our gatherings, I am grilling out for Labor Day!

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    Holiday Cocktails with Kahlua: A New White Russian Cocktail

    Holiday Cocktails with Kahlua: A New White Russian Cocktail

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  • Healthy Date Night Dinner Menu From the Grill - Toast Each Other
    Food,  Plan Your Gathering

    Healthy Date Night HOT Off the Grill

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    Enjoy this healthy date night meal hot from the grill so you can heat up your relationship, not your kitchen. Maybe you need a break, but maybe you really need to shake it up a bit. So how about mixing it up and having a night for the two of you away from electronics, TV, kid talk, boss talk, and worry talk?

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    Colorful and crunchy grilled coleslaw with dressing recipe

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    Wine Exploration – Casal Garcia a Great Patio Pounder

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    It’s a Wine Up Wednesday and for this wine exploration, we are tasting Casal Garcia a great patio pounder! A Vinho Verde from northern Portugal! At the initial tasting of Casal Garcia Vinho Verde white wine, I found it is young, refreshing, and will most likely make you smile while you enjoy its light fruit notes and minerality. Have you ever had one of those moments, a quiet almost sneaky moment, when you are sitting in an idyllic setting, the world is right in your soul, and you just smile? In those peaceful quiet times of reflection, you smile at the beauty before you. You smile at the enjoyment of…

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    An Elegant Mother's Day menu

    How to Make an Elegant Menu for Mother’s Day Brunch Ideas

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  • Sparkling Wines to Enjoy
    Sparkling,  Wine

    Tasting notes: Rosé Sekt, Schloss Biebrich, 2019

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    It’s Wine Up Wednesday! I present to you this Rosé Sekt by Schloss Biebrich in Germany which is a no brainer when you want that fun sparkle and pop.  Who doesn’t want more bubbles?  They are fun and festive and add elegance to any Gathering.  This makes you feel like you are drinking in fun high heels despite wearing flip flops on the porch. It elevates any Gathering you have or attend. Just a quick wine nerd note, as there are many names for sparkling wine. Champagne is only reserved for those sparkling wines from the region of Champagne, France. Snobs. All other sparkling wines in France are commonly referred…

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    03/16/2021
    Slow Cooker Guinness Beef Stew for St. Patrick's Day Buffet

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    02/14/2022
  • Three homemade baguettes baked without bread flour cut in half
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    How to Bake Bread Without Bread Flour

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    Three baguettes baked without bread flour

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    Steak and Lobster Wine Pairings

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    Sliced wheat soda bread with oats

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    Grill Out July 4th: Patriotic Pork on Your Patio

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    The fourth of July is coming! The fourth of July is coming! I don’t know about you but on a hot summer 4th of July, I am going to have a gathering on the patio and grill! With this July 4th grilling in mind, I have prepared a Patriotic Pork Menu for you to enjoy on your patio. It is enough for 6-8 to be satisfied and need an afternoon nap.

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    Sparkling Wines to Enjoy

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The Hostess of Lone Star Gatherings

Howdy!  I’m your host, Rani.  As a WSET certified wine lover and cooking enthusiast, I love to entertain at home. With 25 years of experience cooking, entertaining, and pairing wine, let me guide you through stress-free gatherings with amazing food, wine, and cocktails! Grab a drink and join the party!

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