Salmon With Crimini Mushrooms in Beef Broth Sauce
Salmon recipe from B Cellars Winery in Napa Valley.
Peanut butter ice cream
Peanut butter ice creamA partial success. The flavours were fine, but I wonder if I over whipped this, it tasted too clumped and granular, though my children were more generous and forgiving. 300mls of full cream milk 300mls of cream 2 egg yo...
Harwood Estate Vineyards’ Muskox Recipe
Recipe from Harwood Estate Vineyards for Muskox a la Marquesa uses Cabernet Sauvignon. Harwood Estate winery is located in Prince Edward County, Canada.
Chocolate and red wine
Though I'm slightly partial to chocolate with a sticky fortified, I remain mostly unconvinced about red wine and chocolate. . . The pictured granita is based on a Heston Blumenthal recipe, the only modification being that I used a food processor to pu...
Marinated Vegetable Salad for Vegetarians and Wine Lovers
The recipe below is likely a vegetarian’s delight. For anyone who likes to cook with wine, the salad dressing calls for 1/4c of white wine.
Tomahawk Mill Vineyard & Winery
This potato recipe using Chardonnay is from Tomahawk Mill Vineyard & Winery in southern Virginia.
A recipe for pinot noir and raspberry sorbet
I came across a recipe for a Chianti and orange juice sorbet recently. Perhaps it would work, just like chocolate and orange or orange and aniseed. . . Sadly no partly consumed bottles of Sangiovese or fresh oranges were on hand, so I had to improvise,...
Springtime Salad with Fresh Asparagus
Recipe for rice salad with asparagus and white wine.
Orange blossom water
For a wine obsessive who is happy to pay increasing amounts for what ultimately are very small differences, it should be no surprise that these two examples of orange blossom water, though both from Lebanon, are not the same.The bottle on the left, rea...
Recipe: Shrimp and Veggie Pot Stickers
Ingredients 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 leek, cleaned and thinly sliced 1 clove garlic, pressed 1 head Napa cabbage, finely shredded ½ pound of cleaned shrimp diced in a medium dice 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar 2 teaspoons soy sauce 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and grated 1 medium carrot, grated on finest holes of...
Baba ghanoush
I've been thinking and trying to make baba ghanoush since tasting a deliciously smoky and creamy version last year at the Prophet.This attempt is closest I've come. . .Take one aubergine and pierce 6-7 times with a fork and placed on a stove hob and ch...
Pairing Pot au Crème with Harwood Estate Dessert Wine
Recipe for Pot au Crème made with maple syrup paired with a dessert wine.
