Category: Recipes
Wine Pairing Recipes: Seafood Medley Stew
This recipe for Seafood Medley Stew can be followed exactly, but where is the fun in that? Use it as a jumping-off point. Adjust the spices and ingredients to make it your own. Or, like me, make it differently every time. I call for one jalapeño below, but feel free to use more, less or some other pepper. In fact, the batch pictured featured a mild Hatch pepper augmented by about 1/2 teaspoon of red pepper flakes.
Continue readingCooking Techniques – Make Your Own Fish Stock
It really is about technique, so don’t think of this as a recipe. Almost all ingredients can be removed or replaced it is just a matter of taste. All that is really important is that the shells, bones and heads are quickly sauteed; the wine doesn’t have any off flavors or strong taste, and that the mixture doesn’t boil.
Continue readingMardi Gras New Orleans Cookbook Giveaway!
To celebrate Mardi Gras, Another Wine Blog is offering you a chance to win an autographed copy of a new cookbook by New Orleans’ World Class Chef John Besh.
Continue readingTop Ten Best Drinking Movies
After exhaustive research by our panel of judges here is a list of movies that star alcohol in some way. Conspicuously missing are a lot of quite good wine movies. Once I started making the list it became clear to me that Alan Rickman’s Steve Spurrier would pass out long before the spurned Arthur was even warmed up.
Continue readingBe a Home Superstar Chef (Part 8 – Garlic)
Garlic may seem ubiquitous and ordinary, after all it seems to be a staple in the cuisine of almost every culture, but knowing more about it can really elevate your cooking to new heights. On the other hand, mistreatment of this wondrous knob of deliciousness can ruin an otherwise fantastic dish. If you are serious about cooking great food, then garlic needs to be one of your best friends.
Continue readingWeinrieder 2006 Grüner Veltliner Alte Reben
Grüner Veltliner is not one of the most well known wine grapes on the planet. Wines made from this grape tend to have a spicy nose of white pepper, floral perfume, and either peach or tropical fruit. The Weinrieder 2006 Grüner Veltliner Alte Reben is an excellent example of just how good this wine can be.
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