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2012 Garnier et Fils Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos

November 14, 2016

Wine lovers are always on the hunt for their next delicious bottle. When I go to a new restaurant, I devour their wine list hoping to find treasures without an insane markup. On lucky days I am rewarded with a new producer, grape, or style of wine. That is exactly how... Read More

✷ Soups and Stews

Incomparable French Onion Soup

November 7, 2016February 14, 2021 onions

There is very little in the soup world that compares to French Onion soup. At once both luxurious and comforting, there is something magical about the sweet, savory, umami bomb that is a steaming bowl of French Onion soup with a perfectly gratinéed toast point on top. Since French... Read More

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Learn Your Wine Regions: Chablis

October 26, 2016

When I think about wine of place, wine that can't be made anywhere else, I think of Chablis. A subregion of Burgundy, the vineyards of Chablis actually sit closer to Champagne, a mere 20 miles away, than the rest of Burgundy around 60 miles southeast. That makes for a pretty darn... Read More

Breads and Baking Recipe

The Simple Pleasure of Freshly Baked Bread

October 20, 2016April 21, 2025

I've been happily obsessed with bread baking for the past few years now. There is nothing quite like the smell of freshly baked bread in your kitchen. It conjures feelings of warmth and comfort like none other and it's a pleasure I wish more people partook in. I understand why... Read More

Breads and Baking How To

Hearth Bread Baking at Home

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016

When I talk about baking rustic loaves of bread, I'm usually talking about hearth breads. These are breads made directly on a hearth or the hot deck of an oven. What you are trying to do is radiate heat as efficiently as possible to promote oven spring (that extra lift... Read More

Breads and Baking How To

Working with Wild Yeast – How Not to Kill Your Mother

October 7, 2016

Why do I care about wild yeast? The older I get, the more fascinated I become with the unseen world. We are surrounded every day by microorganisms, shaping the foods we eat and the beverages we drink in numerous ways. It seems that our entire edible world is constrained by... Read More

Cocktails

The Sazerac – A New Orleans Tradition

October 2, 2016January 5, 2017 absinthe, Rye, Whiskey, Whisky

The official cocktail of New Orleans, the Sazerac, has a storied history. Some claim it to be America's first ever "cocktail." Whether that is true or not is beyond the scope of this blog, but it is understood that the story of the Sazerac began with Antoine Amedie Peychaud. Peychaud owned... Read More

Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot Tasting USA Wine

2011 Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Estate

September 11, 2016October 2, 2016

I've been a fan of Ridge Vineyards for a long time now. Surprisingly enough, 2016 was the first time I've enjoyed anything besides their Zinfandel. To this day, if I'm drinking Zinfandel, Ridge is my go-to producer. They make really beautiful, complex and well-made Zin, not the overblown, jammy, and... Read More

France Gamay Tasting Wine

2015 Domaine Depeuble Pere et Fils Beaujolais

September 10, 2016October 11, 2016 Beaujolais

Beaujolais is good time wine. Those fruity light flavors, low tannins and high acid scream for food and to be drunk in happy chuggable gulps, not formal, focused sips. This is not fancy, nor complex wine, nor does it mean to be. If you like your wine fruity and light,... Read More

Breakfast Recipe

Easy Homemade Quiche

August 31, 2016October 11, 2016 breakfast, eggs, quiche, shortcrust

It was only when I really got serious about cooking that I fell in love with the egg. It's such a simple little thing, yet somehow the ultimate culinary workhorse and challenge. Eggs are delicious as an ingredient in their own right, but are also the primary foundational ingredients in... Read More