Happy Saturday Sweet Cookies!!!!!!!!!
Whether celebrating St. Paddy's day, Purim, the Full Moon this weekend too, or whatever it be; please share some WINE with someone else, (as it is better than WHINING to someone of course), and then kindly post something here, about it all!
Thanks tons!
I just grilled simple smelts.
Often I smoke them and there's a thread somewhere in FISH, with a title like, "Yes I eat bait and I like it" or something like this, where I show both SMOKED and grilled smelties, but today I was just using up some freezer odds and ends, and thus grilled smelts and they were terrific!
Whipping up a quickie healthful "pesto" made from a microwaved bag of frozen spinach that needed to be used up, and then some fresh basil, and chopped raw elephant garlic, olive oil, and freshly squeezed lime, I had this fun "pesto concoction"...
I rubbed that over the smelts, even if that got lost a bit while grilling...(as I saved plenty to just ladle over the plate and eat as well)...
Grilling over natural charcoal for 18 minutes, these were delicious...
I added them around a mound of that same pesto, dusted it all with red chile flakes, and some Black truffle sea salt and more olive oil...
(yes, I know, I eat a lot of sea salt, a lot of olive oil, some grass fed New Zealand steak and exotic red game meat in ample quantity - or about once a week - and some cheese made out of either goat, sheep or sometimes buffalo - and I do STILL consider those things to be "healthy")...
And I paired this with my simple Louis Latour White Burgundy (Chardonnay from France, and so you can use any Chard you like)...
And it was lovely!
My husband, who had been drinking red, had just one dot of red wine in his dear glass and thus splashed my white into his, (as the teacher or "multi-time Knighted" in wine Guru who taught me everything about wine that I know did teach me to do, and thus I taught my husband to do it too), and therefore made his own "Blush!"
Hard to see in this shot, but I will blather about that another time, and teach why it is VERY correct (to make your own "blush" at the table, during dinner), in savvy wine circles!!! A fun lesson for another day!
Meanwhile, let it never be said that a simple "use up your freezer" and "pair it with your simple house wine" kind of day, can't be damn delicious!!!!
Cheers, and please share your doings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Leah
Whether celebrating St. Paddy's day, Purim, the Full Moon this weekend too, or whatever it be; please share some WINE with someone else, (as it is better than WHINING to someone of course), and then kindly post something here, about it all!
Thanks tons!
I just grilled simple smelts.
Often I smoke them and there's a thread somewhere in FISH, with a title like, "Yes I eat bait and I like it" or something like this, where I show both SMOKED and grilled smelties, but today I was just using up some freezer odds and ends, and thus grilled smelts and they were terrific!
Whipping up a quickie healthful "pesto" made from a microwaved bag of frozen spinach that needed to be used up, and then some fresh basil, and chopped raw elephant garlic, olive oil, and freshly squeezed lime, I had this fun "pesto concoction"...
I rubbed that over the smelts, even if that got lost a bit while grilling...(as I saved plenty to just ladle over the plate and eat as well)...
Grilling over natural charcoal for 18 minutes, these were delicious...
I added them around a mound of that same pesto, dusted it all with red chile flakes, and some Black truffle sea salt and more olive oil...
(yes, I know, I eat a lot of sea salt, a lot of olive oil, some grass fed New Zealand steak and exotic red game meat in ample quantity - or about once a week - and some cheese made out of either goat, sheep or sometimes buffalo - and I do STILL consider those things to be "healthy")...
And I paired this with my simple Louis Latour White Burgundy (Chardonnay from France, and so you can use any Chard you like)...
And it was lovely!
My husband, who had been drinking red, had just one dot of red wine in his dear glass and thus splashed my white into his, (as the teacher or "multi-time Knighted" in wine Guru who taught me everything about wine that I know did teach me to do, and thus I taught my husband to do it too), and therefore made his own "Blush!"
Hard to see in this shot, but I will blather about that another time, and teach why it is VERY correct (to make your own "blush" at the table, during dinner), in savvy wine circles!!! A fun lesson for another day!
Meanwhile, let it never be said that a simple "use up your freezer" and "pair it with your simple house wine" kind of day, can't be damn delicious!!!!
Cheers, and please share your doings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Leah
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