Hello 2012
2011 was a year of change. As a Taurus I wasn’t always receptive but it made me more flexible. Top wishes for 2012: More wine producers using screw caps, lower prices on BC wines, interprovincial wine shipping made legal and more respect for the Earth. As for last year: January was snowy and cold so Karla and I started making wine videos for our You Tube site with the idea of starting a...
Read MoreSalmon Diaries
From fresh, wild salmon to gnarly, chewy, fish flavoured briquettes. My first fish smoking experience hadn’t ended well, the best that could be said was that it was edible; starving on the tundra it would be delicious. I swallowed my pride along with the dry, crispy fish shards. Ruining two big fillets of fish, and wasting 24 hours with brining and over smoking was not what I had envisioned,...
Read MoreConfidence Is Hot
Confidence means never having to explain your decision to serve Sake with roast beef, Bordeaux with sushi or Riesling with Ramones. Confidence means throwing preconceptions and prejudices to the wind and wading into the unknown. You can theorize all you want but until the food is in your mouth and the wine in your glass, unless it’s a classic pairing, you often don’t know how well they will...
Read MoreDebauchery Near The High Seas
Locating my phone under the pillow, I briefly wondered if such intimate and prolonged proximity to cellular radiation could cause more brain damage then the stupendous amount of wine we had consumed the previous evening. Squinting at the small bright screen, finally covering one eye to focus, I called my host’s number and croaked, “ haaaa…izere coffee?” I was upstairs and feeling quite...
Read MorePantry Raid!
Karen Ralph My pantry was stuffed, but I ignored it until removing a can of tomatoes started a pasta avalanche. Precariously stacked, opened boxes of spaghetti shot off of the shelf, sticks of broken pasta rolling around the floor. The pantry was a mess. Behind the Yuzu hot sauce and designer canola oil lurked the food version of Great Expectations. Forlorn, forgotten vintage cans of Cassoulet,...
Read MoreThe Hangover Drink
Like a lotus growing out of the mud, this beautiful drink was created from the desperation and disgust of a raging, Champagne fueled hangover. I present: Ingredients: 1 ½ oz. Vodka, 1 ½ oz. Gin, 1 oz. Elderflower liquor, one raspberry juice ice cube- you could also use an oz. of pomegranate juice- 2 fresh squeezed grapefruits and sparkling water. A juicer is useful for making this drink, but if...
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