Easy Recipes for Stylish Entertaining | Culinary Thymes
easy recipes for stylish entertaining
Gotta Have It What did we do before the immersion blender? Pureed soups in painstaking blender batches, thats what we did. Another favorite tool, we use the immersion blender to make creamy salad dressings and alioli, puree soups (on the stove and in the pot), even froth hot sipping chocolate. This tool is a must [...]
A Bright Italian White Ruffino Orvieto Classico, 2005 ($9), affordably priced and widely available, is bright and crisp and just the thing to cut through the creamy sauce of the chicken featured in Menu of the Month. A light straw yellow, on the nose and palate there was pear, peach and citrus. And while it [...]
Creamy Fontina Fontal Almost margarine-like in color, Fontina Fontal is a cow’s milk cheese that is moist with?tiny holes. Taste is mild, creamy, and rich. In a word, yum. It topped a homemade pizza with sauteed wild mushrooms and was heavenly. Would make a nice dessert cheese, too. Originally made in Italy and called Fontina [...]
McPherson Cellars The deep plumb McPherson Syrah 2003 ($15.99) tickles the nose with red fruit, tobacco, licorice, chocolate and leather. On the palate it is delicately fruited with gentle tannins and nicely balanced overall. If this is what the future holds for Texas Syrahs, then the future is bright. McPherson is made by second generation [...]
An Unexpected Delight We’re not big pinot grigio drinkers, but Oregon’s King Estate Pinot Gris 2005 ($16.99) had us thinking twice. This greeny straw colored wine teased us with apples and honey on the nose. On the palate it was toasty, nutty, and spicy. It was crispy and very slightly sparkly. Overall it was [...]
