Gary, Thanks for the info on the Primitivo. They are delicious. A Mano always seems to have a tasty vintage at a very good price.
QOTD: I think I’d like to make a good pierogi and have friends over to try it.

Gary, Thanks for the info on the Primitivo. They are delicious. A Mano always seems to have a tasty vintage at a very good price.
QOTD: I think I’d like to make a good pierogi and have friends over to try it.

QOTD: Either…..

1.) Butter Lettuce Salad/Mustard Vinaigrette, Braised Short Ribs, Pureed Potatoes, carrots.

2.) Roasted Beet, Mache & Blue Cheese Salad/Citrus Vinaigrette, Coq Au Vin, Buttered Noodles, Hercot Verts.

3.)Ciopinno with lots of Sourdough.

4.) Foie Gras Au Torchon with Sauterne Jelly, Roast Prime Rin Au Jus, Yorkshire Pudding, Creamed Spinach.

5.) Caesar Salad, Papardelle Bolognese, Colliflower Parmigianna.

6.) Insalata Tricolore, Halibut Livornese, Broccolli Rabe.

…..with my Family, in good health, and some vino thrown in for good measure.

QOTD: Either…..

1.) Butter Lettuce Salad/Mustard Vinaigrette, Braised Short Ribs, Pureed Potatoes, carrots.

2.) Roasted Beet, Mache & Blue Cheese Salad/Citrus Vinaigrette, Coq Au Vin, Buttered Noodles, Hercot Verts.

3.)Ciopinno with lots of Sourdough.

4.) Foie Gras Au Torchon with Sauterne Jelly, Roast Prime Rin Au Jus, Yorkshire Pudding, Creamed Spinach.

5.) Caesar Salad, Papardelle Bolognese, Colliflower Parmigianna.

6.) Insalata Tricolore, Halibut Livornese, Broccolli Rabe.

…..with my Family, in good health, and some vino thrown in for good measure.

Thanks for the Primitivo info G … Love the Big wines.
QOTD— How about good old Southern BBQ or a Pig-pickin with friends and a little vino to go along with.

Maybe I missed it, but what is up with the Clorox, is it in reference to the new “Clean Table” theme?
QOTD: Fresh Maine Lobster, oysters and falanghina with my fam.

QOTD:
I would have to say my Hungarian Goulash served on Piave Polenta with Roasted Brussel Sprouts and bits of pan fried Pancetta with a bottle of the Coviv Aglianico. Then for dessert: Triple Chocolate Brownies with a nice double espresso. Enjoyed by my soon to be wife, her family, my parents, my brother and sister and my two best friends.

QOTD:
I would have to say my Hungarian Goulash served on Piave Polenta with Roasted Brussel Sprouts and bits of pan fried Pancetta with a bottle of the Coviv Aglianico. Then for dessert: Triple Chocolate Brownies with a nice double espresso. Enjoyed by my soon to be wife, her family, my parents, my brother and sister and my two best friends.

QOTD: Chicago-style pizza. That would mean that I owned a giant brick oven, which of course would be fun. And I’d cook it for any/everyone. As long as they don’t mind the long wait.

Good job on taping so many shows at once and keeping the grove all the wayâ?¦
Very nice.

QOTD: I’d make chicken tikka masala and naan, and i’d make it for my girlfriend.

Primitivo theme good – one good wine out of three is bad. The wine selection for the last three shows has sucked. Great themes, but too little thunder. Who’s picking the wines?!?

QOTD – I’d like to cook Crow and feed it to the Idiot in the White House

Great Show Gary…you have me interested in Primitivo.

QOTD: UMMMMM,…not sure…DAMM IT!!

I’d love to recreate those wonderful dishes from “Big Night” for family and friends and have them sit for hours at table, talking, laughing, enjoying scrumptious food and delicious wine. That would be heaven. We’re in such a hurry these days we forget the simple pleasures.

QOTD: I will tell you what comes to mind. There is this a cedar smoked salmon served by a restaurant here in town that is Outstanding! I wish I could make that, mostly for my wife, but I would make it for everyone I know, because it is luscious.

QOTD: My stepmom makes great rice. I mean, this stuff is amazing. Flavorful, rich, not too wet but not too dry. A meal by itself or great with everything. I cannot, for the life of me, make this rice. I’ve watched, I’ve done everything I was told, and cannot do it.

It’s a shame that the alcohol % seems to be creeping up a bit in Primitivos, treating them as Zin’s. I hope the trend stays away from Plavic Mali!

QOTD — difficult to say, as the things I’m bad at cooking (esp. fish dishes) my wife is brilliant at and vice-versa . . . so I’ll say boullibase, just to shock my wife!

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QOTD: I actually cook all the time (my wonderful wife can’t cook, but no loss).

If I had one meal to cook, however, it would be my totally from scratch lasagna…sauce from scratch, pasta from scratch, filling layers from scratch…It’s my favorite meal that I’ve cooked so far.

Qotd: I would make a huge Turkey & Mashed Taters and serve it with a box of wine to Jessica Alba so she would pass out and I could violate her!

QOTD: THIS Mac & Cheese ( http://tinyurl.com/2shdg5 ) it’s Martha Stewart’s and it is AWESOME.

QOTD – I’ll cook just about anything as long as I don’t have to do the dishes…

Hmmm, tricky question that one. The 1st thing that comes to mind is LAMB. Semi well done lamb with the bone marrel (wrong spelling) inside at a low temperature in the oven for a couple of hours, slowly cooked – juice with aged golden rum and a dark rich red wine, oregano, basil, romarin, pepper and salt with some garlic gloves. If not lamb – ribs. I never made ribs. Either one. Side: fresh mashed potatoes mixed with sweet mashed potatoes with sprinkled oven cooked just a little – almonds; and sort of like a nice brown sauce to go on top of the potatoes and the lamb and if they are ribs, well seasonned and prepped spicy/sweet blended sauce. I probably would make this supper for my parents as they are so giving and patient with me and close relatives like my sister who just gave birth and her husband, my boyfriend. What occasion ? Humm … good question Gary, good question of the day indeed; maybe after a long trip or over some holiday get together, along those lines. That’s what comes to mind now, with some salad, some great cheese too like gorgonzolla, camembert, chevre, with a fresh nutty baguette fresh out of the bakery’s oven or if I could make it, mine. I usually buy it from the bakery, lol. With a nice Spanish Rioja Aged wine – RED to go with that = miamm !

QOTD: I have always wanted to make good bread in a wood fired brick oven, or pizza with fresh homemade buffalo Mozzarella. I have no baking skills, no brick oven, no buffalo milk, and I have never made cheese, so as simple as it sounds this would be the most challenging dish for me to put together. I would drink Primativo with this one too. For dessert, white truffle gelato, (yes mushroom ice cream!) Also no gelato maker, no truffles, and no experience with Ice cream making. This dinner would be with family of course.

I’d cook anything my Mom wants. She used to make me Alaskan king crab for my birthdays so she deserves it. But if I had to choose, it would probably be a rack of lamb, with risotto (or maybe polenta), and a nice simple garden salad.

QOTD: Cassoulet.