ANA Wine (or whine) Club

[Captain Deb]

  I can't join the wine part of this club! I used up all my drink tickets 20 years ago while living in the Caribbean! OOPS!!  I guess I'll just have to just join the WHINE part!!!

BOO  HOO HOO!!!!!

What??  AAARRRR!!!!!!  Oops again!  I forgot! Pirates don't whine!!!!!!

Capt Deb

[leapyrtwins]

Capt -

just show up at next year's symposium.  No drink tickets needed.  Steve's buying !!!     

Jan

[Lorenzo]

you can always 'whine and dine' instead. food is lacking from the thread.

[lori67]

Chocolate is a food group, isn't it?

[Captain Deb]

I'll take a little gnocchi with gorgonzola sauce followed by a nice rack of lamb roasted with rosemary and lots of garlic and a side salad of baby arugula with goat cheese and walnuts with olive oil and balsamic vinagrette. Boo hoo hoo.

Capt Deb

[Lorenzo]

and chocolate for dessert. And yes Lori, it is a MAJOR food group!  THE food group.

That meal sounds good to me, no boo hoo there I would think. Taste buds will be satisfied with that, sans wine. yum. I must make gnocchi, haven't in a while. The rest is sort of food we do anyway. Feck, forgot to put down arugula in the garden! Shall remedy that tomorrow. thanks for reminding me!

Lorenzo 

[Debbi]

The mere thought of all those tastes makes me want to faint from the sheer bliss of it all....

Debbi , swooning...

[yardtick]

Capt Deb,

We need to met.  I like your idea of a meal.  Lorenzo can make the bread!

Anne Marie

P.S.  I'm making funnel cakes for my boys, with fresh local strawberries!! YUMMY!!

[Captain Deb]

Me stepmummy is a Culinary Institute of America grad and an Italian to boot.  She and me Pappy had a fine dining restaurant here in the NC mountains after they left the Virgin Islands.   Her homemade gnocchi is to die for!!!

Capt Deb
still on Topamax
still a size six!
probably not for long after reading this thread

[Lorenzo]

My aunt had a restaurant in the hills in the Veneto and I remember spending some happy summers sitting in her kitchen there watching enormous dishes of lasagne (pasticcio as they call it there) being made and roast rosemary potatoes, etc. No CIA grad, but a mamma cooking her stuff for big wedding parties. Another aunt came from a family that owned the village bakery, so I ate too much fresh bread when there, and helping my uncle in his grocery shop.  OMG, I just realised they were all involved in food somehow!

Yardtick, make sure your resident wine maker brings a few bottles of his Petite Syrah, will ya? Thanks. 

Ciao, Lorenzo

[leapyrtwins]

You guys are really making me hungry - not to mention thirsty!

[Lorenzo]

  Just went out to the glass house, picked a couple of lettuce heads, a zucchini, bunch of parsley on the way back in, chopped sundried tomatoes, added a few purple olives and capers, olive oil, my own wine vinegar, and that was lunch, with my bread too.

i think I have a food fixation, not to mention wine!

  Ciao, Lorenzo

[ppearl214]

from today's Boston Globe.... "Perfect wines for sipping on the back porch":

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/articles/2008/06/25/perfect_wines_for_sipping_on_the_back_porch/

[lori67]

Chef Lorenzo -

I'd like to place an order for what you had for lunch.  How long do you think it would take to get it here?

Lori (stomach growling in Nashville)

[Lorenzo]

Haven't seen any of them, but Saumur is familiar and had a few of those, yum, and the cotes du ventoux is good, and we indulge when we're down in that area, southern france that is. As for the one with 'notes of lead pencil' I wonder... makes one think, non?

Lori, transporting a salad by air might be a little difficult. Not sure they would let me on board with a big salad bowl, and anyway, I think the lettuce would get a bit soggy. On the other hand, I travel well, don't get soggy and those ingredients are available anywhere.

Io? A Chef? LOL  Pleeeeease...

Ciao, Lorenzo