APRIL 13, 2016 Wine of Change Today I had beef tartare for lunch and drank Chassagne-Montrachet Les Blanchots Dessous. Yes, I had white Burgundy with meat. It was delicious. No, it was not an experiment: since I discovered the limitations of the mantra “White wine with fish, red wine with meat,” it is my usual practice. It turned out that grilled salmon goes well with Pinot Noir, and roast pork in marmalade glaze goes well with Austrian Riesling. The outdated rule lost power over me and does not stop me
K is for Kitchen The letter for today’s A to Z Blog Challenge was easy to come up with. I decided to write about K is for Kitchen since I recently de-cluttered and re-organized our kitchen. After 16 years of accumulation of “stuff” I knew I had a challenge of my own! So I rolled up my sleeves and started cleaning off the counters and drawers for the beginning stage. Everything that I didn’t know what to do with, ended up on the end counter so I could go through it
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day April 12th is grilled cheese day so when I heard about this, I knew I had to make grilled cheese sandwich for dinner. But not any grilled cheese sandwich, it had to be super colossal for National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day! I’m going to share my step by step directions along with photos of how I make my super colossal seven layer sandwich. Yes, I said SEVEN LAYERS!!! First I butter two pieces of bread and put the butter sides together
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J is for JERSEY MIKES! I was actually stumped on the letter J for the A to Z Challenge until my granddaughter asked me how I could forget about J is for Jersey Mikes! If you haven’t had one of their subs, you don’t know what you are missing. First they use REAL meat, not the processed kind that is full of water. When we go in to get our subs, the order takers already know we want, a #6 and a #8. Hubby gets the #8 with