Hi John,
For the past year, I’ve been working long hrs and would rarely get home before 7:30 pm, so I wouldn’t cook much for moi. Lunch being my main meal. My routine was to choose the wine first and eat whatever. Things have lightened up now and I am trying to get back to a 40 hr work week. Weekends are a different story, or if I’m cooking for someone..definitely will pair wine with food or other way around.. Agree with Dominus.

For me if I’m doing a dinner with friends, family or at work, I’m always going for the best possible pairing. When it’s just me I almost always don’t worry about the pairing that much. With that being said I’m not going to pop a Barolo if I’m having poached Dover Sole, or a Chablis if I’m having spaghetti and meatballs. I’ve found out about or discovered for myself some of my favorite pairings by NOT trying to worry about the pairing.

Sometimes I’m surprised by how well the food and wine go together. I always enjoy when that happens, as it’s something I probably wouldn’t have decided on if I was entertaining people or doing it at work. When they don’t go well together, I figure out what about it that doesn’t work i.e. too much acidity, not enough body, too earthy, etc. Plenty of times when I recognize what about that wine doesn’t go the best with that particular food and wine pairing, I’m able to come up with ideas for what would pair well with it that I know I never would have thought of.
That’s led me to what I consider to be in my opinion some of the most interesting and unique pairings I’ve done/had.
Of course when you do take risks like that, it can certainly have the opposite effect.

😉

The Venetian Hotel is nice… They actually have gondolas and the guys on them speak with an Italian accent. Rooms are nicer than Bellagio from what I hear (spacious).. The Grand Canal, Venice theme, etc. would probably seem hokey to you when compared to the real thing, but it’s Vegas… An adult Disneyland.

Oh my!!!! I loved this episode of Seinfeld! Go Teri! hahaha!

Yeah those notifications are nuts. My email box was flooded with them today

Ohhhhhhhh on youtube no less.

When I go to youtube I want to see Steve Winwood or listen to Mozart. I will check it out when I get home. Bandwidth issues here at work.

Thanks for “linking me up” Lisa. 😉

Being a Mozart aficionado, I believe one of them was either “Wulfee” or “Wolfie” yet forgot the other one.

Where is episode 1001 with Coach Boyer?

ok it’s only a minute long. Just saw it. That’s useful I guess for folks looking for a quick review and have no interest whatsoever in the show.

It does make me wonder if this will effect the un-condensed (real) episodes. Will Gary now try and rip through a wine or two in each or certain episodes and rush it so he can have it fir the format for DG60?
I wouldn’t be crazy about that. I mean we all know how long Gary and sit and ponder which Thunder cats action figure a particular wine smells like 🙂

Really? Hmmm I guess it’s in my settings. I’ve been told that alot. 🙂

Since he has torn down the wall of not having interviews on DG, it could be over there sometime soon. We have not heard.

Yeah John but you worked at one of the nicest establishments in this entire DC area. I always dreamed of owning or working at a restaurant or bistro in the style of a cafe in Vienna, Austria but after watching Gordon Ramsay on Kitchen Nightmares, I’m rethinking that dream.

Ever hear of Savage River Lodge? I actually paid money to be “Chef for a Day.” It was great but I was dragging after one day!!!!

Bon appetit!

No DG tonight. “Tech issues” Maybe get Mott and run it over here? What a novel idea. 😉

Cheers!

I need to fix this. I set up a new acct through Disqus so that I would get email notifications like you do, but Disqus wouldn’t take the same user name or any form of it.. Up until now, I’ve been connecting to Disqus via my yahoo acct/
Be back later. Sorry. 🙁

PS The good news is that I received an email notification, re your comment!

Looks like Lisa got her email notifications fixed on here. I replied to your last response on here down below and then it occurred to me that some of you guys don’t get the notifications.
That can be a lot to sift through without them if you’re not on here for a couple days. I was surprised to here that from you and Lisa today, don’t know how you guys did it. Of course as you noted it can be a bit much too, like all the ones we got from DG.

Once you put a comment on DG and if you respond to a comment, you will receive notifications from those for ever as long as someone keeps commenting on your comments. Bad! 🙁

Patience grasshopper. He’ll reply.

we are alive and kicking. BTW I found your birthday. I’ll give you a SHOUT OUT then.

Food first, wine later and I don’t care about the match if I have a craving for a particular style of wine. You can get that sometime, I don’t know why.

I question the validity in a tasting like that, can you even feel anything at that pace?Yes I know he already tasted the wine and is playing it from memory, but would it be a good review if it actually were like the DG60?

Did you really think things would change that much ????? One can hope but I’ve (we’ve) been down this road before and like I said WAY back I’ve scaled back my expectations.
But Hey, I really like the people I’ve meet here so that is a huge silver lining 🙂

We like you, too, TP.

Hi there, Mottster!

Would you believe that I once worked with a group of 20-something yr-olds who had no clue where the Grasshopper reference came from? Shocking! 🙂

yeah, I don’t know how we did it either! I like email notifications from you all. Still working on the picture though. I uploaded it and if you click on black spot, you’ll see it… A work in progress!

I like that name ….. “Speed Grape” ….. have you done that speed dating thing ???? LOL