Fickle Palate Archives: April 2008
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28 April 2008
Cooking with Wine
Wine is often used in sauces and stewing juices, as well as in some types of desserts. The first and foremost rule to keep in mind when cooking with wine is to never cook with any wine that you wouldn’t drink. Always suffuse your wine-enhanced dishes with flavors that you’d enjoy on their own and [...]
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21 April 2008
Pleasure Comes in Pairs: Explore Wine and Food Pairing
If you’re like most of us, you’re probably intimidated by the elusive art of wine pairing. Maybe it seems that there are rules to wine pairing that perhaps you should know, but don’t, and you’re loathe to expose your lack of culinary finesse and so you avoid the matter altogether.
There certainly are those in [...]
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14 April 2008
The Saga of the Best Bottle of Wine I Never Drank - Part 4
I drove home. It was a 70-mile trip from my friend’s house to mine. When I got home, I was so tired I just went inside and went to bed. I’d unpack the car in the morning.
Yes, I’d unpack the car in the morning, clean things up after a week away from home, pamper aching [...]
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7 April 2008
The Saga of the Best Bottle of Wine I Never Drank - Part 3
The park rangers joined us each evening for dinner, campfire music, the tall tales that make Texas famous, and lots of laughter. And beer.
On our last night at the park, they treated us to a night, and a party, at an old but spectacular hacienda on a cliff overlooking the Rio Grande River with wonderful [...]