Thanksgiving meals, like Christmas, have a number of challenges when it comes to pairings. The turkey is sweet but can be rather flavourless. Sweet potato casserole can be extremely sweet indeed. There tends to be a lot of butter floating around, as well as cranberry sauce, gravy, and (at least in my household!) mustard sauce, [...]
Hooray for Whole Foods.
Around 2pm today I received an email from the wife informing me she’d been to Whole Foods to pick up some essentials and also bought a prepared meal: cajun turkey, sweet potatoes, green beans, and (mixed greens with balsamic vinaigrette) salad. Nice.
I gave it a little thought and decided to run with [...]
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I was certain this would be a winner, and I wasn’t disappointed.
The sandwich featured some hard salami, thin-sliced smoked turkey, shredded cheddar, and spicy brown mustard, all lightly toasted on a hoagie roll. On the side were some Zapp’s Voodoo Gumbo potato chips. What better to accompany such a deli delight than some Rye Pale [...]
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