Wine Blogging Wednesday (WBW), created by Lenn Thompson from The New York Cork Report, encourages bloggers to write a post based on a selected theme of the month chosen by a rotating host. This month marks WBW #67, but the sixth I have participated in, and is hosted by Joe Roberts at 1 Wine Dude, […]
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My mother is visiting this week from sunny Arizona! Hooray! That typically means a week full of some of the best Mexican food ever. Growing up, I sadly wasn’t as appreciative of my mothers cooking skills, but now I take advantage of every minute with her in the kitchen. This week we will be spending a lot […]
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I recently received an email from cork’d announcing a contest to win tickets to attend the Independent Champagne and Sparkling Wine Invitational (ICSWI). Now I’ve pretty much given up on contests. I’ve entered thousands of them in my life, and have never won so much as a ribbon But when the contest involves my favorite […]
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While preparing for a recent Intro to Wine and Food pairing class I polled a few friends and family members from outside the area to ask what would they want to learn about if they took a class on wine and food paring. Their responses were quite humbling to me. I was prepared for them to […]
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I am a huge proponent of eating healthy (yet delicious) when I can, often altering recipes to make them healthier, and that almost always includes substituting ground turkey for beef when called for. I have dozens of recipes for turkey burgers, turkey meatloaf, turkey chili, turkey tacos, and yes turkey meatballs. And just when I […]
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Today marks the one-year anniversary since I’ve been blogging on this site! Okay, it's not exactly one year "today" (March 2nd), it was actually two days ago while I was in Napa, hence the tardiness… but then again I have always been notoriously late for celebrating birthdays (even for my own blog). So, better late then […]
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