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Chicken Marbella for Sheila

Posted by Susan Filson on Sep. 25, 2009, at 12:00 pm

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Way back a hundred million years ago, when my husband and I were first married, we received a copy of The Silver Palate Cookbook as a wedding gift. It sat proudly in our orange crate bookcase alongside The Joy of Cooking and The Betty Crocker Cookbook, also wedding gifts. That bookcase made quite a statement paired with our dining room set of a card table and four metal folding chairs. (Did I mention that we were poor as dirt back then?) Anyway, whenever I needed some culinary inspiration, I’d reach for Sheila and Julee’s wildly popular and creative Silver Palate to get me started. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: chicken, chicken marbella, cookbook, entertaining, recipe, Sheila Lukins, Silver Palate
Posted in Recipes & Cooking |

Corkscrew: Diary of a freaked out hostess

Posted by Taylor Eason on Mar. 3, 2009, at 4:50 pm

Shit, people will be here in an hour, and I still haven’t showered. The husband is mesmerized by Battlestar Galactica and probably wouldn’t be much help anyway. This in-home wine tasting will be the death of me, but I always seem to have fun … probably too much fun actually, since tomorrow will likely hurt. But with more water and more food tonight, here’s hoping.

Glasses out? Check. They don’t match but does anyone really care about that kind of thing anymore? Certainly my friends won’t notice. We break the nice matching glasses as fast as I buy them and the cheap glasses printed with various logos are indestructible. Hey, if I use those I don’t have to pull out the wine charms to keep track of glasses. Cool. There’s one with the Einstein on Wine logo, Paso Robles Wine Festival, Oregon Pinot Noir Festival. Yeah, that works. Makes me look worldly and experienced. Or like a lush? Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Bouchaine 2006 Pinot Noir Carneros, Capcanes 2004 Mas Donis Montsant, Corkscrew, entertaining, taylor eason, wine, wine tasting
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