Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
I am now officially done with my former job except for some contract work I’m doing for them. The problem is now that whenever I’m connected to their system, the rest of my internet applications don’t work, like it’s greedily sucking up all my bandwidth and probably a few other things, too. Oh, and the …
I apologize for the dearth of posting this week. It was my last week at my job, and I was a bit busy and, honestly, somewhat emotionally overwhelmed. Plus, I had to clear out my desk and space. Who knew it was possible to accumulate so much stuff in three years? I got ready for …
Yesterday was the birthday of a few drink-worthy individuals. The first August 22 birthday of note belongs to Claude Debussy, one of my favorite composers. He falls in the late Romantic to early 20th century period, and his music has an incredible, ethereal quality that has been described as Impressionistic, although he didn’t see it …
First, Kudos to Jess on having put together a somewhat daring tasting. It takes courage to go beyond the West Coast when it comes to wine in the U.S. As I mentioned in my posts about going through Virginia, there is some good stuff to be found. There’s also a lot of bad stuff. This …
I poured at the Sherlock’s wine tasting in Decatur yesterday. It was wines from Burgundy. I accidentally left my list there, so I can’t blog on the wines, but they weren’t that interesting. Yes, this would definitely be a case of: too much going on, too little mental space for it. I have ten working …
According to Blogger, this is my 50th post! w00t! Thanks to all my loyal readers. You may be quiet, but I know you’re out there; I’ve got software that tells me so. Don’t worry, you don’t have to go put your aluminum foil hats on, it only tells me numbers, no personal information. And maybe …
Yes, that’s right, two restaurants in the past week. Well, three, but I’m only up for talking about two this evening. Hubby has been super busy with work stuff, and I’ve been stressing over a major career change, so we’ve been feeling very low-effort in the kitchen. We made Baby Bam Burgers tonight (recipe no …
T.S. Eliot started his poem “The Waste Land,” with “April is the cruellest month…” I would like to differ and argue that the cruelest months are June through August. Why? Because it’s peak season for peaches and berries, fruits that just beg to be put in pies! Although we live less than two miles from …
“If you’re a dude drinking pink wine, you’d better be prepared to take some crap!” Those words, spoken by one of our fellow wine taster’s school colleagues, gives us an idea of how the infamous pink stuff is still viewed by many people. Lettie Teague, one of my favorite Food & Wine Magazine authors, called …
Normally I don’t post in the middle of the day, but my computer is busy setting up my next batch of work, so I thought I’d pop in and share some thoughts. I’m having a sleepy day, so these will likely follow an intuitive, right-brained track. Just wanted to give you fair warning. I’m so …