Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
Hubby and I live in an area of Atlanta that’s frequently called a city of functional alcoholics. I would say I don’t know why the Decatur/Avondale Estates part of town has that nickname, but we do have a lot of great pubs, bars, restaurants, and wine, beer, and liquor shops. One of our favorites is …
Hubby and I always look forward to Easter, which we feels gives us the opportunity for some serious kitchen playtime. We start discussing the menu weeks in advance, and there is a careful selection of recipes as well as strategizing what to pick up where. Yes, I just made up a word. So first, the …
Okay, wow, where did September and October go? I had every intent to post this soon after returning from our California trip, but yeah, life got busy, I released a novel, and I had two of the busiest weeks ever at my private practice. Although I’ve been drinking plenty of wine, there hasn’t been much …
September 22 marks the feast day of Saint Maurice. Why ever is he here? Read on! For those who don’t know1, Maurice was the leader of the Roman Theban Legion. According to the Interwebs, the Roman Emperor Maximian called upon the Theban Legion to help quell a revolt in Gaul. So Maurice and 6,599 of …
I’m taking advantage of the free wireless at Eno Wine Bar, which is off Union Square in San Francisco, to post this, the last report from Paso Robles. Later this week, I’ll be sharing our adventures in Sonoma. I’ll also be doing that from a computer, so I can get my links embedded beyond the first …
I wrote this on Tuesday and am posting this from our hotel room in San Francisco. We’re headed north today to Healdsburg, and then to Sonoma tomorrow. I really did mean to post this earlier this week, but I was busy being a psychologist rather than an oenophile. Okay, I was drinking wine as well …
My brain is weird. I never have stress dreams about work during the week, but just let me have a long weekend or vacation, and three to four nights in, I’ll have work-related dreams. Typically it’s some sort of scheduling problem, like three new patients show up at once, or like this morning, a particularly …
When we were first approached in January about reviewing the NewAir AW-181E 18 bottle wine fridge, Hubby and I had two reactions: 1. Is someone really going to send us a wine fridge? 2. How the heck does one review a wine fridge? Well, the answer to the first one was yes, rather quickly, and …
I’m making turkey lasagna tonight. We ended up with a little extra homemade sauce and not much room in our freezer for it, so the next logical step is, of course, to turn it into something yummy. I have a confession, though… I will be using boxed noodles. “What?” you say. “You were off to …
When making pasta, be sure to have plenty of booze on hand. For those who are wondering, being half Italian does not automatically confer pasta making skills upon you. My first couple of tries at fresh homemade pasta resulted in thick lumps of chewy dough with sweet potato in the middle that I euphemistically called …