Apparently you can cook pasta in any liquid.
Why not choose a liquid you love?
Pasta is an easy go-to dinner, but you can make it extra fancy with a strange but incredibly good twist. Why not boil the pasta in red wine? This simple move makes a complex, beautiful pasta.
Seems appropriate for Valentine’s Day, no?
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Is it cold where you are?
Because hell froze over.
While I love to cook, I’m not especially crafty. I even have a Pinterest board titled Stuff I’ll Never Make. Maybe it’s the wine holiday spirit, but I decided to take the plunge with an appropriately-themed wreath. (The theme here is wine.)
Yes, I finally did something with the bazillion wine corks we’ve been collecting. It really wasn’t difficult and I’m so happy with how it turned out. All that hard work drinking wine paid off!
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There are 2 and a 1/2 weeks until Christmas.
Did anyone else just gasp?
It’s well past time to start thinking about gifts. For my Jewish friends, I hope you’re done because your 8 crazy Hanukah nights started yesterday!
If you’re like me, you’re trying to find the perfect gifts for the special people in your life. It’s tough! If your friends and family members are fans of fitness and/or food, I’ve got some awesome ideas for you!
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Who doesn’t love a grilled cheese?
Besides me at age 6… I didn’t like cheese… IDK.
As strange as it is not to like cheese, I eventually grew out of it and embraced cheese’s goodness.
Vegas and I got to attend a cheese a wine class as part of the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival a couple of weeks ago. The class was called “Cheese: A Class to Make You Melt”… and melt we did! How could you not when the class starts out with a plate of cheese a a generous wine pour?
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It’s Christmas time!
Didn’t we JUST have Thanksgiving?
We made it back from our travels in one piece Monday night, but I feel like a zombie now. How is it already December?
Did you start holiday shopping yet? I did a little t-shirt shopping in South Carolina for me. The people at the gym today loved my Furman University shirt.
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Food can be a powerful healer.
Funny, since it can also make you sick.
Vegas and I decided to try out an anti-inflammatory diet for a couple of weeks to see if it would relieve some muscle problems we’ve been having. She get cramps and achey feet and I have a ankle/Achilles that refuses to heal. My fingers have also been hurting too. 32 is too young for arthritis… right?
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My family loves a party.
To say the least.
Last Saturday would have been my dad’s 59th birthday. I froze him in my head at 52… it’s weird to think he would have been almost 60 this year. It may seem weird to some people, but we decided to have a little party in his honor with some close good family friends.
My dad loved people. He also loved good food and good wine. We made sure all were present! We laid out snacks while prepping the grilled goods. Cheese, crackers, soppressata, grapes, and figs:
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Atlanta’s Food & Wine Festival is my frenemy.
It knocks me down, and still I come back for more.
It’s not just the wine talking though! Its the food. It’s #strangebutgood, it’s perfectly executed, it’s stuff you’ve never imagined… it’s the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival.
Here is just a fraction of the goodness we sampled over 3 days. Some of it I couldn’t slow down enough to photograph. I can’t even believe there is so much fabulousness in the world….
