Wine & Food Pairings
Here’s an easy recipe for a flavorful roasted sea bass recipe. You just precook a few potatoes, then slice them into a roasting pan, top with the other ingredients and pop in the oven for 20 minutes or so. The result is tender pieces of glistening, herb-flecked fish and you barely had to do anything [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, I roasted a whole duck for the first time ever. I’ve cooked plenty of chickens in my life, but never a duck. I love ordering duck in restaurants — confit, grilled, Peking, whatever. If it’s got crispy skin and tender duck breast/leg meat involved, I’m typically interested. But I guess I’ve been [...]
Read more →Hello all — and Happy 2012! I don’t know about you, but I always feel a certain sense of relief once the holiday marathon is over. The feasts and the gatherings, the indulgent desserts, the sheer volume of traditions that must all be observed, the late nights with one more bottle of red wine than [...]
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Once upon a time, my boyfriend in Milan had me nearly convinced that the jumbo-sized panettone that arrived at my doorstep every Christmas was from his mother… Now, I had met his mother. Once. And she had scared me to death — an effect that Italian women of a certain age still have on me, for the [...]
Read more →These skewers offer a range of intense but complimentary flavors — the rosemary-infused marinade makes simple boneless, skinless chicken breasts moist and flavorful, and the smoky-crisp bacon wrapped around meltingly tender fresh figs combine to make a delicious dish. Recipe: Rosemary-Marinated Chicken with Bacon-Wrapped Figs Serves 4 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into [...]
Read more →And while I’m at it, I also really loved this Cabernet Sauvginon — another Penfolds Bin beauty: Penfolds 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon South Australia Bin 407 ($33). Strikes a lovely balance between rich fruitiness — black currant, plum, blackberry, and complex layers of aromatic mineral, floral and cedar notes. Nice complexity and elegance from beginning to [...]
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