another wine blog

The trouble with a lot of salads, as far as I am concerned, is that they provide less nutrition than many people think and a lot of the time, more calories. This salad has neither problem, and it is very simple to make. It is also quite versatile and can be tailored to your personal [...]

Braising is a cooking method that sounds difficult, but is actually easy as pie. Actually, as anyone who has ever made a pie from scratch, it is much easier. The basic technique is to sear a piece of meat and then finish the cooking in a liquid. As simple as that is, it produces some [...]

I swear that this will be my last article about asparagus for a while, however I did promise some cooking and serving methods, so here they are, along with some other tidbits.
Asparagus is an extremely nutritious vegetable which is high in folic acid, potassium, fiber, vitamin B6, vitamins A and C, and thiamine. It has [...]

As promised here is the recipe for making sliders at home. A slider is a tiny hamburger in the style created by White Castle, the original American hamburger chain. These gastronomical delights are affectionately known as “Murder Burgers,” “Belly Bombs,” “Whiteys,” and of course “Sliders.”

There is a running argument in my house about what should be served for Easter dinner. My wife thinks it should be ham, and I think it should be lamb. To me, ham is an everyday kind of food and not suitable for special occasions unless you can’t cook or don’t have time to prepare [...]

Okay, this isn’t really Shepherd’s Pie, it is technically Cottage Pie. If you want Shepherd’s Pie substitute the ground beef with ground lamb. I don’t usually have ground lamb on hand so this is how I tend to make it. And, while I may be of Irish decent, this is probably not the most [...]

I would like to apologize for not posting anything yesterday. My intentions were good, but apparently the road to hell is paved with homemade pasta. Lots of homemade pasta, as it turns out.
Last week my youngest son turned 13. This momentous occasion was prologued earlier in the week by me asking, quite innocently, what he [...]