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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
Smoked a Brisket for my father in law's birthday and Mother's day. Was amazing and went over well with the family. 10hr smoke with my homemade rub, and then wrapped and slow cooked for another 6 hours. Ended up a little overdone for my personal tastes, but fall apart tender always goes over well with kids and older folks.
Lots of leftovers (it was a while 12lb brisket), so been using it in fried rice or rice bowls for breakfast and dinner. So good.
Just got back from a truly stellar wine dinner, which feels utterly decadent for a Monday night. All the pairings and dishes were perfect, particularly when unexpected.
Asparagus is notorious for being impossible to pair with wine, but the local winemaker whose wines featured had a lovely white made from Kerner grapes and it just worked. Apricot flavors and aromas with tempura asparagus, who knew?
Gewürztraminer with duck rillettes, lamb with red Blaufränkisch, and a perfect pineapple (!) panna cotta with a pineapple tepiche cider, all for a stupidly cheap price because it's the last week before the tourists arrive.
It's a restaurant we'd never visited before, with two female chefs from the local culinary college. We're already booked in for the next wine event - a battle between this place and another top restaurant, Michigan wines against French. Sometimes life is full of gifts.
Booked a stay in Cornwall with some friends for the bank holiday weekend and making an occasion of it! I am bringing: