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It’s National Drink Wine Day. But let’s expand our American horizons to a different slant: pairing wine with sweet foods. Check out: Pairing Wine & Cake Pairing Wine & Chocolate Pairing Wine & Desserts Pairing Wine With Ice Cream & Sorbet A bonus: Pairing Beer & Chocolate NOW IT’S TIME TO PARTY!…
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[1] A seacuterie plate from Oceana restaurant, with octopus salami, gravlax with dressed microgreens, and crab spread on toasted baguette (photo © Paul Johnson | Oceana Restaurant). [2] A put-it-together seacuterie board: You can purchase most of what’s here. Here are the recipes fi=or the rest (photo © Wild Alaska Food). [3] An ample lunch,…
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[1] Spoon the herb butter sauce over the fillet. [2] Plated with a butter lettuce salad (recipes below). [3] With kale and baby potatoes (photos #1, #2 and #3 © Good Eggs). Last night we had guests over for a simple salmon dinner. It was an impromptu event: Our fishmonger had a sale on…
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December 27th is National Fruitcake Day. The most maligned food in America is not cilantro. It is fruitcake. Unlike cilantro, which delivers a consistent take-it-or-leave-it flavor, regardless of where it is grown, it is man who has manipulated cheap ingredients and preservatives into frightful fruitcakes. But yes, Virginia, there is great fruitcake—the kind that, 100…
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As much as we’re fans of casual entertaining—stop by after work for some wine, or at 4:30 p.m. for tea time—we love to plan special entertainments. If the planning is effortless, so much the better. That’s why we were so pleased to discover Cookies & Corks—a young business founded by two young moms who met…
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