Well blow me down. I never knew that cream of tartar came from one of my favorite things. It would appear that this expensive substance used to give volume to egg whites when building Pavlova comes from the sediment produced in wine making. Grapes provide the only natural source for this substance which, when asked, many [...]
Recipe books are great sometimes, but I love a bit of experimenting, especially with foods I know so well. How many cakes haven’t I made in the last 25 years (my mother gave me full reign over all baking before I was a teenager, except the Christmas fruitcake)? For this reason, opening a cookbook to [...]
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
The red and white bottle, half the ordinary size, had caused me to look twice each time I walked by the liquor store wine rack. Not noisy, yet distracting, like a dark-haired Latin dressed in simple black pants and white, open-necked shirt, not saying anything but looking classy and just giving me that look. I [...]
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Monday, December 14, 2009
I was careful to tell the clerks at the two liquor stores I went to this morning (I’m getting a bit self-conscious about being a regular): I just can’t drink all of the wine I buy. One asked me if I cook with wine and suggested I put leftovers in a baggie. I usually use [...]
Now that I know such things exist, I scour my local wine merchants for small bottles of wine, hopeful I will not have to freeze or discard too much of the stuff. I simply cannot invite enough people over for supper to justify opening a 750ml bottle of wine every week just for me. I [...]
Tonight is my daughter Faye’s 11th birthday, a night of noisy games, rambunctious pre-teens staying-up very late before sleeping in our basement, then groggily looking for muffins and toast the next morning. I’m thinking tomorrow night will be a good night for a glass of wine, or perhaps something stronger.
Then there’s the snow, lightly sugaring [...]
Wine makers are very clever people, chemists really. They need to know about the chemical make-up of the wine on their racks, the results of fermentation, the impact of climate on the taste and acidity of grapes which fill the cellars of the public. They must be geniuses.
I was wondering why I should buy red wine [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
‘It’s like pumpkin pie in a bottle,’ said the lady at the Westham Island winery as I considered the many flavours typed onto a sheet in front of me. I could taste three different varieties. Should I waste one of my chances on something I thought would be horrible? It was like ‘Let’s make a [...]
