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, [...]
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout is a grand, grand thing. Thick and sweet with flavors of bourbon, oak, vanilla, roast, chocolate and alcohol. A massive 13% abv. It’s a force to be reckoned with. I chose it to pair with my stir fry because syrupy stouts can sometimes take on a hint of soy sauce [...]
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Each year for Valentine’s Day my wife and I forgo the typical high-priced prix fixe menus and predictably poor service that accompanies dining out on Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve, and Mother’s Day. Instead, we indulge ourselves in a gourmet meal, which I prepare, followed by dessert, which my wife prepares.
This year, we settled on filet mignon, [...]
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I’m not sure where we picked it up, but we had a box of Thai-style infused chicken broth in our pantry. There were directions on the back for making a very easy Thai Coconut Curry Vegetable Soup which consisted of throwing veggies, coconut milk, pasta, lime juice, and the chicken broth in a big pot [...]
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Uncle Flip takes his turn at Twain’s, for some pub fare and
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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This is what it’s all about. Doug and I hit the Clyde last night to enjoy some world class food and beer along with the musical stylings of the Will Cash Quartet.
I of course started things off with a delicious Good People IPA:
Foodwise I was in the mood for something relatively light, so I sprung [...]