Most folks know a little bit about pairing their favorite entrées with the right variety of red or white wine, but they might be a little more in the dark when the dessert menu rolls around. Chocolate desserts are a staple for many and the flavor can be enhanced if you pair it with a vintage port wine. Cognac (a spirit made from distilled wine) and bordeaux also taste good with chocolate recipes. Dark chocolates go well with the softer flavor of a merlot, and desserts combining chocolate with berries can be paired with the rich, deep flavors of a cabernet sauvignon.
Cheesecake is a tough match, but your best bet is a dry or sweet riesling. This is also a good wine to pair with any kind of fruit tart, pie or turnover. When in doubt, serve some champagne or sparkling wine -- they should go with most any dessert recipe.
I never think of Beth cooking. She is always on the go and thoroughly dedicated to her career as a television producer. Because she is on the west coast and I am on the east coast we don't often get to go shopping or have spa days together. We resort to drinks on a weekend night over the phone. For her it is usually a rum and diet coke. For me it where ever my whims lead me, a gimlet, karentini, or glass of wine. We talk about everything from work to dramas over our love life's.
Last year I convinced her to start getting a farm share of fruits and vegetables. It started with her calling me for ideas and has ended up with sharing her experiments. She has even become a food network fan.
Chop vegetables accordingly. Make dressing separately. Combine and refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving.
I was happy to see this recipe mention Betty Rosbottom. She may be a part time resident of Paris, but she also calls my neck of the woods home. Anyone who loves good food in Western New England knows her name. The recipe is an ode to spring's favorite flavors.
Due to the fact that I am a temporary resident of Jimei, Xiamen, China, I was complelled to make a few changes. Lamb can be found, but the portion of the local wet market is not my cup of tea. Tofu, it braised before hand can have some of the richness and texture of a good piece of mutton. I used a ruttabaga rather than the turnip, I could not turn up. Chicken was a light and refreshing option for the beef stock and the puree had to be fresh, simmered tomatoes. The result was a simple stew that turned a monsoon of a day into a comfy and cosy reason to relax.
In a wok, braise the Tofu in oil until all sides begin to brown. Set aside until latter. Add the Fines Herbs, tomatoes, onions and rutabaga to the wok and simmer covered and on low for about 1 hour, adding liquid as needed. After the tomatoes begin to break down add the stock, potatoes and carrots, raise the heat to medium and bring the stew to a boil. Once it begins to boil reduce heat back to low and add the tofu. Cook covered for another hour or until the carrots and potatoes have softened to your liking. Add peas and continue cooking for 15 minutes. Serve hot with crusty bread.
This taste of Italy is a recipe from Marisa Procopio's. It reminds me of an evening strolling along the canals Venice and a chance encounter with an old friend having a meal at a small table outside a restaurant that was no more than a hole in the wall. Something very similar to this was the one and the only dish they were serving that night. After one bite I knew there was no need for diversity.
It is also what I had for dinner last night. There are no leftovers to photograph in the morning light...It was just that good!
"This is an honest, very hearty, very flavorful recipe from Liguria, a dish made with a handful of pantry ingredients, and it has a wonderful bracing effect on a nasty winter night. Makes you feel powerful,...." anchovy pasta « eve's apple.
How often have we thought about the existence of life beyond Earth, and feared that if we ever encountered extraterrestrial beings, they might wreak all kinds of havoc on our planet, as shown in the movies. But the pertinent question still remains, do aliens exist?
Data cruncher and blogger Sam Monfort in his blog on Feb. 21 said the number of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) sightings is currently at an all-time high. He wrote that one of the first recorded UFO sightings was in Portland in 1905, where a “buzzing sphere-shaped UFO descended from the clouds.”
According to Monfort’s report, there have been 104,947 reported sightings on record over the past 100-plus years. He used information from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), which collects and disseminates objective UFO data and keeps careful logs of all UFO sightings worldwide.
Both Neil Armstrong and Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after their historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on July 21, 1969, according to unconfirmed reports. NASA astronaut Armstrong believed aliens have a base on the Moon and they apparently warned Armstrong and others to “get off and stay off the Moon.”
During a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session, Aldrin said the “first humans to set foot on Mars should never return to earth.”
When one user asked Aldrin if he believed in aliens and asked him about the sightings he saw on board Apollo 11, the astronaut replied: “On Apollo 11 en route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world – it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft.”
In 1971, Mitchell became the sixth person to walk on the Moon, and the journey spiritually transformed his life in such a way that he devoted much of his time exploring “esoteric realms of science, psychic phenomena and the existence of extraterrestrial beings.”
He was convinced after the journey to the Moon that “aliens have been observing us and have been here for some time.” Mitchell once even claimed that “peace-loving” aliens had visited Earth to save humanity from nuclear war, and indicated the Vatican knew about the existence of extraterrestrials.
In 1963, when he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for a 22-orbit journey around the world, Cooper told the tracking station he could see a glowing, greenish object appearing in front of him and approaching his capsule. The UFO was reportedly “real and solid,” because even the tracking radar had picked it up, according to syti.net.
According to a taped interview by author, J.L. Ferrando, Cooper revealed how he felt he was living with a secret, which was imposed on all specialists in astronautics. “I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public,” he said. He added: “Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means.”
Regarding crop circles that he first saw in 1991 in England, he said in an interview: “The Crop Circle phenomenon, besides the hoaxed ones, is a very real phenomenon created by some unknown, probably non-human intervention,” according to UFO Evidence.
O’Leary is also reported to have said, “There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted. Civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time and that their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view.”