Friday, December 31, 2010
The Dollar remains the hooker with crabs while many other currencies have AIDS
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Le Menu
Christmas dinner with Lisa, mom&dad, Susan&James, and joined by the Berzanskys for dessert
Starters: Olive tapenade, crackers, gruyere & a triple creme blue cheese
Wine: 2009 Gianni Gagliardo Fallegro
The olive tapenade was inspired by Evan (who else) and made by blending together olives, olive oil, capers, garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice, and miso paste. Very good but very salty. The Gagliardo is an aromatic Italian white from the Piedmonte region with ever so light frizzante.
Salad: arugula with pomegranate and sauteed mushroom, seasoned with raspberry vinaigrette
Wine: continuation of the Gagliardo
Soup: winter quash with chilis and mint.
Wine: N.V. Collard-Picard Champagne Cuvée Dom Picard Blanc de Blancs
The soup recipe is adapted from 'The Greens Cookbook' by Deborah Madison. The champagne is from K&L. Love that stuff.
Entree: Imam bayildi (braised eggplant)
Main Course: Barbecue marinated salmon with potato-leek puree
Wine: 2005 Poderi Aldo Conterno Langhe Nebbiolo Il Favot
The imam bayildi was made by mom and delicious. The salmon marinated overnight in a hodge podge of a sauce (wine,soy sauce, brown sugar, honey, olive oil, garlic). I had a tough time getting the charcoal going - clear that i dont really know how to barbecue. The wine was the real wildcard not having had it before, picking it up on a PRIMA recommendation -and it was flat out delicious.
Cheese Plate - an assortment of soft cheeses
Wine: 2007 Hall Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
The Hall Cabernet is overoaked in my opinion.
Dessert - Lemon bars, Ginger cake, assorted cookies
Wine: Homemade Sparkling Mead (2010)
Wine: 2006 Navarro Vineyards Gewürztraminer Cluster Select Late Harvest
Mmm, good stuff!
Starters: Olive tapenade, crackers, gruyere & a triple creme blue cheese
Wine: 2009 Gianni Gagliardo Fallegro
The olive tapenade was inspired by Evan (who else) and made by blending together olives, olive oil, capers, garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice, and miso paste. Very good but very salty. The Gagliardo is an aromatic Italian white from the Piedmonte region with ever so light frizzante.
Salad: arugula with pomegranate and sauteed mushroom, seasoned with raspberry vinaigrette
Wine: continuation of the Gagliardo
Soup: winter quash with chilis and mint.
Wine: N.V. Collard-Picard Champagne Cuvée Dom Picard Blanc de Blancs
The soup recipe is adapted from 'The Greens Cookbook' by Deborah Madison. The champagne is from K&L. Love that stuff.
Entree: Imam bayildi (braised eggplant)
Main Course: Barbecue marinated salmon with potato-leek puree
Wine: 2005 Poderi Aldo Conterno Langhe Nebbiolo Il Favot
The imam bayildi was made by mom and delicious. The salmon marinated overnight in a hodge podge of a sauce (wine,soy sauce, brown sugar, honey, olive oil, garlic). I had a tough time getting the charcoal going - clear that i dont really know how to barbecue. The wine was the real wildcard not having had it before, picking it up on a PRIMA recommendation -and it was flat out delicious.
Cheese Plate - an assortment of soft cheeses
Wine: 2007 Hall Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
The Hall Cabernet is overoaked in my opinion.
Dessert - Lemon bars, Ginger cake, assorted cookies
Wine: Homemade Sparkling Mead (2010)
Wine: 2006 Navarro Vineyards Gewürztraminer Cluster Select Late Harvest
Mmm, good stuff!
Friday, December 24, 2010
Michael Mina
Went to Michael Mina, SF last night. Nice place with a swarm of wait staff. We had the N.V. Gaston Chiquet Champagne Blanc de Blancs d'Aÿ. Wicked good, i love the nuttiness. I had the '5 fish' platter, supposedly a smattering sampling of (cooked) Japanese fish as well as the dungeness crab ravioli.
We brought a bottle of 2002 cos d'estournel which was drinking nice, good mature bordeaux funk present, though a tad less sweet than the 2001 we had last week at Chez Panise. Yet after all the ooh'ing and ahh'ing over these wines, I just opened the homemade production of one of my deli owning patients whose bottling "supertuscan luigi genicolo cellars contra costa county CA" (name affixed via return address label) is smashing it out of the ballpark. This is not a commercially available wine (as far as i can tell). It smells of dark cherries and oak chips, has very visible sediment, and tastes awesome - dark berries, cherries, chocolate, with very dry tannins on the finish. Blinded who knows what i'd guess - Brunello maybe? Certainly not a homemade production from an octogenarian. 93 points at least. And what does that say about wine in general - certainly something.
Bravo Luigi (can i have a case?).
We brought a bottle of 2002 cos d'estournel which was drinking nice, good mature bordeaux funk present, though a tad less sweet than the 2001 we had last week at Chez Panise. Yet after all the ooh'ing and ahh'ing over these wines, I just opened the homemade production of one of my deli owning patients whose bottling "supertuscan luigi genicolo cellars contra costa county CA" (name affixed via return address label) is smashing it out of the ballpark. This is not a commercially available wine (as far as i can tell). It smells of dark cherries and oak chips, has very visible sediment, and tastes awesome - dark berries, cherries, chocolate, with very dry tannins on the finish. Blinded who knows what i'd guess - Brunello maybe? Certainly not a homemade production from an octogenarian. 93 points at least. And what does that say about wine in general - certainly something.
Bravo Luigi (can i have a case?).
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