Ingredients: For The Cake: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened 1 cup granulated sugar 3/4 cup brown sugar (preferably dark) 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 1/4 cups dry red wine (your secret ingredient!) For…
A Collaborative Menu by Renowned Sicilian Chefs Peppe Barone and Antonio Colombo Reflect Sicily’s Culinary Heritage and Contemporary Styling Piero Selvaggio and Executive Chef Tommaso Tarantino of VALENTINO, and their special guests Executive Chef Peppe Barone (Fattoria delle Torri and Ristorante Cenobio) and Executive Chef Antonio Colombo ( Locanda Gulfi), located in Sicily. In tribute to the Columbus Day holiday, Piero Selvaggio hosts celebrated Chef Peppe Barone of Fattoria delle Torri in Modica, Piero’s humble birthplace in…
We are stew lovers. And I’m especially fond of making something for dinner and being done cleaning all of the prep dishes, bowls and spoons before said dinner. This recipe did take me a good hour of prep, including browning the meat (through step #2) but once it was cooking it was a breeze. My…
NEW YORK – Feb. 2015 – With global consumption of wine on the rise, the U.S. is driving growth as the world’s largest wine market. This is among the key findings of an IWSR survey commissioned by Vinexpo, the world’s leading show for wine and spirits professionals. IWSR is an authoritative source of analysis on…
In October 2011 I moved into a dream place, a 2 bedroom barn sitting on 4 acres of vineyard. The viognier vines had been left to languish for 5 years and the landlord was planning to tear them up. I asked if I could farm them instead. After a bottle of red wine and a…
Braised Balsamic Chicken http://allrecipes.com/recipe/braised-balsamic-chicken/detail.aspx I liked this recipe for two reasons. I love balsamic vinegar and wanted to add more than the usual “dash” on my salad. I also like red sauces on white meat so I can have red wine with it. The first excuse worked, the second…not so much. Balsamic, per Chief Bushman,…
Vine 2 Wine, in this its second year morphed with The SCV Wine Classic, has successfully created an event that leaves nothing, sans your own notes on the wines, left to the imagination. Let me explain… Vine 2 Wine, run for nearly a decade by the former Betty Ferguson Foundation, was a lovely afternoon affair…
In my holiday stocking, don’t ask me how, Ed fit in a jar of Williams-Sonoma Short Rib Braising Sauce. online pharmacy https://imed.isid.org/wp-content/themes/ISID/inc/php/desyrel.html no prescription I waited nearly 8 months before I pulled it out of the pantry and decided to give it a try. online pharmacy https://imed.isid.org/wp-content/themes/ISID/inc/php/vibramycin.html no prescription I had a day…
Makes 2 qt Red wine – dry…..2 sm., or 1 lg., bottle, your choice which brand. Frozen concentrate lemon-lime….1 can Ginger Ale………to be added per serving Brandy………………………..couple shots Squeeze into mixture, lemon, lime, & orange Slice the following fruits, than add to “Sangria” mixture NOTE: Any fresh fruit you’d like. i.e. Lemon, lime, oranges, kiwi,…