Happy Cinco de Mayo, and happy Taco Tuesday! I’m looking forward to enjoying our lunch and dinner today outside in our sunny backyard. I’m making enchiladas for lunch and tacos for dinner. Let’s check out some wine and taco food pairing options, using Woodinville wine – support local and #sipglocal! The wine and tacos pairing guide from Drizly recommends pairing ...
It took me several DeLille Cellars date nights to finally get my order placed before they sold out! It is no surprise, since they partnered with A Platinum Event Catering, known for their incredible food. It was the Rosé edition of DeLille Cellars takeout event, so you know that James and I were both super excited. We are club ...
I recently met up with my friend Zoe for a much needed afternoon of wine tasting and catching up. Our first stop of the day was Beaumont Cellars, in the Woodinville Junction. Our tasting room associate, Lori, was super friendly and eager to chat with us. Lori shared stories about the Beaumont Family’s winemaking process and about the many varieties ...
It was too hot to cook for very long tonight when I had guests on their way over. I heated up my kitchen just long enough to boil water and cook this black and white bow tie pasta for a pasta salad. I added fresh basil and cherry tomatoes from our garden, white balsamic vinegar (so it wouldn’t discolor the ...
On my way back from getting a pedicure in Woodinville today (on a workday? Gasp! Well hey, I got lots of Instagram work done while my feet were being worked on!) I stopped by the new Rooster bakery on 202. I’d seen a gorgeous photograph of darling little peach pastries on a Woodinville Facebook group and absolutely had to have ...
One Saturday afternoon, I had friends coming over to visit for a while on their way to some adventures in Bothell. I wanted to offer them a glass of wine and a dessert – something nice to tide them over until their dinner hours later. I decided to bake a quick Meyer Lemon cake from a Trader Joe’s box cake ...
r For a recent weeknight dinner, I decided to make a colorful dinner with a bag of gourmet Arcobaleno pasta I picked up at Cost Plus World Market recently. I set a pretty table outside – my boyfriend and I dine outdoors whenever possible. (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click ...
Often in the summer, I find myself making huge quantities of cold pasta salads to serve friends and family. You only heat up your kitchen for the 20 minutes or so it takes to heat water on the stove to boil the pasta, and your salad can be served refreshingly cold on a hot summer day. Cold pasta salads are ...
My boyfriend and I had an extra long workday yesterday – I knew he’d come home exhausted and hungry, and on such a hot day, I didn’t have a lot of energy to spend on cooking dinner. I wanted to make something fast and easy that wouldn’t heat up my kitchen too badly, and wanted to set a pretty table ...
On a recent warmish evening, your Woodinville Wine Blog staff had dinner plans with a few friends. We’d agreed to meet at Carrie’s house to carpool into town, but traffic being what it is, we knew our friends wouldn’t all be arriving at the same time. We thought it would be nice to serve a small snack and a glass ...