Wine Outlook

Food, Cooking & Wine Channel Posts

• This Week's Wine Menu is All About Fleet Week
  This week’s theme: history and tidbits Complimentary Tasting 2006 Roussanne, Fess Parker Vineyard, Santa Barbara $25 Picture yourself in San Diego in 1935, for the very first Fleet [...]
• Cocktails – tasting notes and final list
  The cocktails for the Banquet were: Gernsbackian Dream - a copacetic martini style drink, the cat's pyjamas Southern Nights Julep– Mint, champagne and fruit, iced to perfection, a julep [...]
• Fall foods
  I know that we're well into October and the weather has been on the chilly side. But I've still been in denial about it being fall. This CSA share is proof that it's summer no more. Two heads [...]
• Last of the Conflux food (but not the summer wine?)
  This is another dish we didn't use but which the testers loved. Leg of lamb, Boulangère. Season a leg of lamb with salt and pepper, and rub with garlic and butter. Put in roasting pan with a [...]
• Happy Conflux recipes
  The sherbet or sorbet was another dish that the chef used his background for. He had done a Titanic menu previously and is perfectly familiar with the palate cleansing sorbet of the period, so [...]
• Peel it, Juice it and Eat it....the Pomegranate
  The pomegranate has a brilliant colored red juice and the seeds, that are colored the same amazing red, can stain a lot of clothing and even your favorite apron. The tiny little sack that hold a [...]
• Be an Artist of Wine
  Next Wednesday--one week from tonight--will be the last wine seminar of the year at Rosenblum Cellars, hosted by yours truly. The Art of Blending will take place from 6:30 to 8:30pm at the winery [...]
• More recipes!
  Canapes – there were so many delicious canapé recipes to choose from and they all tested well. I chose simple ones that met everyone's dietary requirements. BLACK OLIVES Pit black olives, [...]
• Limited Edition Snickers Dark Mix
  I am always up to giving something labeled dark chocolate a try even though so many times I end up disappointed with it tasting too much like milk chocolate. Usually just a look at the [...]
• Cooking with Beef
  • Beef, Vegetable and Noodle Skillet Serves: 6 1 pkg. shells and cheese dinner 1 lb. extra lean ground beef 1/2 cup Italian dressing 1 bag frozen veggie blend, thawed 1 tsp. dried basil [...]