Eating with Chef Jasper Mirabile Those of you who follow me on Twitter may have seen me mentioning a meal I recently had at Jasper’s in Kansas City, MO. Some of you may have even gotten the chance to see the picture I took of some of the amazing food Chef Jasper made for us. […]
Tag: wine
A Sweet Red: Charlemagne
So in my post Watermelon Wine, I had mentioned that while I had been less than enthusied by the watermelon wine, I had not come away empty handed from Davenport Orchards & Winery on Sunday. That’s because I found a new sweet red: Charlemagne. I had to try more than one wine. Far be it […]
Watermelon Wine
Today, I stopped by Davenport Orchards & Winery today to pick up a few bottles of locally produced wine. I owe a lot of Davenport. It is the first winery tour I ever took and strangely enough, I think I still have a bottle of apple wine I purchased that day stored in my under […]
Howto: Simmer
Well now I’ve stepped in it. I’ve decided to tackle the topic of how to simmer food. This is one of those topics that illicits great debate on exactly what the proper way to simmer is, what temperature to use, and how best to deliver heat to the simmering liquid. Before we get into the […]
Choosing a Wine with Which to Cook
There is tremendous scholarship concerning what types of wine to pair with which foods. It is pretty well established that one should pair white wines with lighter dishes and red wines with heavier meat based dishes blah blah blah. (I find this last point particularly troublesome since I prefer whites and oftentimes find the tannic […]