5 Easy Steps: Host Your Fabulous Budget-Friendly Double Date Dinner
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!
Understand Wine and Food Pairing: How to Savor your Amazing Adventure
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.
American Sparkling Wine: The Case to Celebrate Amazing Local Bubbles
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.
New Year’s Resolution: A Cooking Challenge
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…
Come and Play! Vinho Verde Rosé, Casal Garcia
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!
Grill Out for Labor Day
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!
Healthy Date Night HOT Off the Grill
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?
Wine Exploration – Casal Garcia a Great Patio Pounder
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…
Tasting notes: Rosé Sekt, Schloss Biebrich, 2019
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…
How to Bake Bread Without Bread Flour
Three baguettes baked without bread flour
Grill Out July 4th: Patriotic Pork on Your Patio
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.
Do You Know Why We Celebrate July 4th with Fireworks?
How are you going to celebrate the 4th of July? Fireworks, parade watching, grilling or gathering with friends are all great ideas!
