Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
wine, beer and other drinks
The perfect August celebration — meeting friends at 5 p.m. on their fifth floor balcony at the Magnolia, a boutique, downtown Denver hotel — started with champagne and popcorn. August in Denver is very hot for people used to living in the mountains, so I crave cold bubbly wine. I
Watermelon, Vodka and Lemon/Lime Juice. Let the watermelon be the sweetness. Watermelon’s best quality. I don’t love the texture or the the thick bitter skin, or it’s plethora of seed. Like lavender is to herb, watermelon is to fruit. Its a smell of summer. Watermelon’s second best quality is wetness:
Heaven in a smell – vodka in the glass. By mid May our tarragon was two feet tall and so thick it feels like we planted a magic tarragon stalk three summers ago. Sure, it’s great with fish, great in a chicken soup, and I even use a few
Drinking in the Spring Down in the capitol of our neighboring state, New Mexico, I’m happy eating New Mexico Enchiladas everyday, every meal. On this trip, my friends were happy to drink Sangria every day, every happy hour out in the perfect dry New Mexico spring weather under our friends
— What’s the correct way to make a Black and Tan? So here pictured, you’ll see two ways of making a black and tan. One, on the right, started with black, the Guiness Stout, and then, the tan was poured in afterward. The one on the left was made with
Opening night of the Winter Olympic Games 2010, and we’re dog sitting for friends with a taste for wine. And we open the 2005 Atrea Old Soul Red and it was pow of red fruit flavor. Zin-ish but not one dimensional, and it went well with the over-done chocolate pastry
Fleuraison is a botanical term in French, which mean to produce flowers. It’s a more technical word than the French for blooming (floraison), and the experience of this sparkling wine’s smell is not pushy flower smell but a nice aura. This blanc de blancs is crisp, smooth and yes, floral.