Here’s the kind of thing you can do with fresh herbs and fruit. Saute a diced onion (we used a vidalia last night) Add a couple of diced celery stalks to the onions and cook a bit more. Add as many sliced drained olives as suits (we add about 1/2 cup). Add three medium tomatos… Continue reading Sairey Gamp’s Summer Tomato Linguine
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Interior Design and Bubbly
So I spent most of yesterday afternoon putting together a new shelving unit, for the office. It goes well with the tres cool Hermann Miller desk. The unit is a Blu Dot Chicago 8 if you care. I quite recommend Blu Dot stuff based on this (our only Blu Dot) piece. Celebrated with a bottle… Continue reading Interior Design and Bubbly
Organic White Wines
Having got my little rant about the value of organic off my chest, here’s a lineup of interesting organic whites. Villa Teresa was a ground breaking organic winery, at least in the sense they deliberately stayed organic. (There are many European wineries that are organic, because they refused to change anything their great-great-great grandfathers did;… Continue reading Organic White Wines
The Idiocy of Green Wine
This is the official ‘hate me’ post: Why organic/biodynamic/green wine is beyond dumb. Understand I have a great deal of sympathy with organic wineries. In general I find organically produced wines are much less likely to provoke allergies, and are often unique and tasty. However I’m impervious to environmental guilt. The entire green movement is… Continue reading The Idiocy of Green Wine
Uber Aubergine!
And what a ripasso! I don’t know if Masi is getting better; perhaps 2006 was an exceptional vintage; or maybe it was just the right meal and the right wine…