Tonight, I mixed up my first of four wine kits for the year, a South African Shiraz. I’ve been meaning to do this since we last bottled and finally found the motivation to do it today–namely the realization that I already have three kits sitting in the family room with …
Last night, Brian and I bottled up the Riunite-tasting wine that I complained about a few months ago. It actually didn’t turn out too badly. And, it no longer tastes like Riunite, thank God. But, it is definitely too sweet for our tastes. Luckily, I know a bunch of people …
Jake and I just mixed up a Chilean Carmenere/Cabernet Sauvignon wine kit. It was one I bought last year but was waiting for another batch of wine to come through before I made it. Last fall, the wine store where I buy my kits was selling 5 gallon containers of …
Continuing with this week’s chicken theme…we had this for supper tonight. It was so good. I made it once before years ago and I’m not quite sure why I waited so long to make it again. I got to use a bunch of fresh (and some frozen) herbs from my …
Last year, I was looking for a way to process my garden tomatoes for sauce. I didn’t have any luck last season, but I found this cool attachment for my KitchenAid mixer in the fall, so I grabbed it up and have been patiently waiting to use it ever since. …