Date Dining and Wine: Antipasto and a Hike
After “I can’t be bothered to figure out how long,” I decided recently to make my triumphant return to the food and wine writing scene. I almost used the word “blogosphere” un-ironically but no matter how much I pretend being cool doesn’t matter, I couldn’t…
Date Night Dinner & Wine #4: Perfect Valentine’s Day Dinner
Do you hate the idea of a commercialized holiday designed to generate copious amounts of revenue by preying on couples that feel they need to pick one day a year to show each other how much they’re in love? Good for you love-Scrooge. I love…
Date Night Dinner & Wine #3: Tasty Tartare With Valpolicella
A typical Saturday for me includes at least three beers, two bowls of boxed macaroni and cheese, a few hours of kittens laying on my face, and usually excludes pants. Yesterday, however, I had a hunger that could only be sated by one of my…
Date Night Dinner & Wine #2: Great Meal, Good Wine, Bad Pairing
This week I tried something different. I had my favourite recipe guinea pig over, picked her favourite wine, then tried out a recipe I’d been kicking around my head over the course of my last three or four showers. The results were mixed: a big…
Date Night Dinner & Wine #1: Chicken, Rapini and Pinot Grigio
I had a couple of friends over for dinner this week to thank them for taking care of my cats as I went to visit family in Toronto. Four long days straight of holiday festivities had really scrambled my food-brain so having them over the…