Pot roast with tomato burgundy sauce.

Served with garlic mashed potatoes and red cabbage.Wine was Bogle cabernet sauvignon

greek kabobs

A little shot of summer in the middle of winter!

Bratwurst with apples,onions,and saurerkraut

mac n cheese

wine was a Bogle Cabernet sauvignon

shrimp scampi

Shrimp scampi over angelhair pasta.Wine was a Lamoreaux Landing Riesling.Served with tossed salad and italian bread.

Simple Sunday Dinner

This was easy and quick.Simple ham slice with rough mashed baby red potatoes,parsnips and carrots with a cinnamon glaze.

sunday brunch

This was prepared by my wife Marcia.It is a frittata with spinach,mushroom,bacon and cheese.Served with champagne, sausage and buttermilk biscuits with italian seasoning

chicken parmesan

Served with oven roasted baby red potatoes and green beans with almonds.The wine was Heron Hill 2008 unoaked chardonnay

Apricot Beef Stir Fry

Served with Basmati Rice and Twisted Vine Zinfandel 2007. This rustic wine is from the Sacremento River Delta. It has hints of blackberry,bramble and wild spice and a hint of vanilla oak. A nice balance of deep fruit flavors in a dry, mellow wine.

Wine Tidbit

Tried a new wine over the weekend, Bogle Winery Sauvignon Blanc. This was a light wine with a very crisp taste to it. Went very well with the seafood chowder I was eating. Would be good with chicken, cheese, seafood. A nice go-to wine for the summer at $8.99 a bottle.

A New Begining

Strangely enough its been a year since I said I was going to put this thing together.I have gotten many requests from friends and relatives to put this stuff out there.Much of what I do is what I call off the cuff cooking.I spend endless hours looking at recipes and wine sites trying to get ideas for my cooking.Some of it comes from recipes,most is just a natural sense of what would work to make the impression I'm looking for.Yes it is kind of an art thing,similar to say painting or photography.First it has to look good.If it didn't who would try it?Then you have to back up the presentation with how it actually tastes. But then I have a third criteria,I want to do it as cheaply as possible.I can tell you my lovely wife Marcia and myself eat pretty good meals.All of you have seen our postings on face book.We try to share these pictures to get you excited about food.After all ,we all have to eat right?So I am going to post the pictures here where you can ask for recipes if you would like them. We will continue to put the pictures on face book but the recipes will only be found on the blog page.So stand by many neat pics to follow soon.We will also be talking about many different wines to pair up with these meals. There are so many great wines out there that are inexpensive.While there are so called (set rules) as to what wine goes with what,it is all open to interpretation as is your taste for what foods you like.I'm not going to tell you what is right or wrong,just what worked for me.You make your own choices on the journey.Yes it is a journey of sorts.Come along,we'll see where it takes us.