Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Tastings are posts about the ideas or concepts of what we decided to cook, why, how we did it, and how it turned out.
Wine Tasting with Family Embruix Priorat 2021 Producer: Vall Llach Grape: 27% Grenache, 21% Cariñena, 12% Syrah, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 28% Merlot. From: Priorat, Spain Smells: (aromas of raspberries and blackberries, with hints of licorice, graphite, spices and aromatic herbs on a dark mineral background) Tastes: dark fruit, spice
Lentils du Puy, great wine, friends and more As you can read from this well-aged article, cooking sausage in white wine makes them a great winter meal with a bowl of lentils cooked with bacon. Click on the recipe’s image to get more information. Or go to my more recent
Hummus – homemade Soaked 1.5 cups of dried chickpeas for about 30 minutes, then rinsed them well. Put into the pressure cooker with almost the maximum amount of water. On to power boil until the cooking was heard in the other room, and the blue and white rings on the
January 2024 We were celebrating a big birthday with lots of people coming over. And coming at various times during the evening. It’s January so evening could be as early as 5pm. Guests that stop by after work, may eat the wholesome food and then want dessert before late comers
Gifted a jar of sourdough starter We made sour-dough pancakes. We removed with half of the started, in order to refresh it (by adding more water and more flour). Batter is half the starter, about 1 cup, 1 cup flour, 1 cup milk, with the addition of 2 T of
One potato, locally grown, is grated quickly on a box grater, long side. I’m making breakfast potatoes for the two of us, so only one mid-size Yukon gold is all we need. I melt a teaspoon of butter with the same of good olive oil and set the small sauté
Staying with Salads through the Autumn add Some fall-harvest fruits like pears and apples are firmer and drier than summer fruit and work well with dry cheeses and nuts on hearty leafy greens, and combine to make salads that can be light meals in the Indian Summer, when temperatures are
Winner in our judgement is the ExNovo, after that the far left beer, the Steel Bender. The Santa Fe Brewing’s offering was far too sweet. The ExNovo had a complex taste pallette that isn’t always depending on sweetness.
At Sunset Peel and chop fresh beets (2 beets) into bite sized pieces, and boil quickly for 10 minutes. Cut basil into very small mince, and add to 1 cup of green yogurt. Thin dressing with a small amount of vinegar or dry wine. Add a few teaspoons of olive
My old recipe for an olive oil (instead of butter) cake was a gluten free one, but was always a little flat, and gummy. I added more eggs – six – to try to increase the loft, and add a little spelt flour, but still didn’t love the texture.