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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…

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Easy Ideas How to Make a Beautiful Fruit Charcuterie Board

Here are some great ideas for how to make a beautiful fruit charcuterie board. It is so easy to create a simple fresh fruit board in your own kitchen. Fruit…

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St. Patrick’s Day Party Foods and Drinks to Make you Dance Like a Happy Leprechaun

Make these St. Patrick’s Day Party foods! Add some green drink recipes and use the wine recommendations to create your own Leprechaun-worthy St. Patrick’s Day celebration! In America, we love…

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Easy Mixed Berry Sauce Recipe for a Grown-Up Dessert

This Sangria Mixed Berry Sauce recipe makes a deliciously flavorful sauce starring juicy berries in a Sangria-style sauce. It is a simple fruit sauce recipe that makes a dessert topping…

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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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  • 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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  • 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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    RANI

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    New Year's Resolution A Cooking Challenge

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  • Understand Wine and Food Pairing: How to Actually Savor your Amazing Adventure
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    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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    Healthy Hollandaise Sauce on Eggs Benedict

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    A delicious Dekuyper Buttershots drink recipe for a wintertime cocktail

    Can Butterscotch Schnapps Recipes Easily Warm Up Frosty Winter Gatherings?

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  • American Sparkline Wine bottles
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    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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    Best Red Wine for Heart Health

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    Turkey with dry brine ingredients

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  • 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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    Memorial Day Great Steak Cookout

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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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    Why we celebrate the 4th of July

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    Perfect Chocolate Soufflé from your Freezer

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  • Labor Day Grilling Menu
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    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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    Rose Wine in Glasses

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    Delicious Gingerbread Martini

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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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    Holiday Cocktails with Kahlua: A New White Russian Cocktail

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    All the Thanksgiving foods on a table

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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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  • Sparkling Wines to Enjoy
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    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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  • 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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    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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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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