The California Wine Country Herbs & Spices Cookbook


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The theme of this collection of recipes by the best chefs of the California Wine Country is herbs and spices. These are some of the recipes that have made this region a world renowned center of creative cuisine.In addition to the recipes, there is a complete glossary of herbs and spices, recipes for making your own spice mixes, and how to make herbed and spiced oils and vinegars.This cookbook covers everything from appetizers to desserts. Now you can make such exciting dishes as Curried Chicken in Cracker Bread, Sherried Crab Soup, Shrimp and Citrus Salad with Curry Dressing, Fettucine with Lemon Caper Sauce, Pork Patties with Blackberry Salsa, Hazelnut Crusted Salmon, with Spicy Peach Sauce, Sauteed Chicken and Grapes in a Creamy Wine Sauce, Lavender Roasted Potatoes, and Black Forest Brownies. And, every main course has a recommended wine selection, too.




Wine & Cheese Pairing Guide


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It's great fun to discover a taste sensation that makes you say ?Wow! This is fantastic!? and that sensation is readily available to you and your friends when you successfully pair wines and cheeses.With more than a thousand wines and a thousand cheeses in the world today, the number of combinations is mind-boggling ... literally, over a million potential combinations. But, what an excellent opportunity for you to enjoy the pleasure of searching for specific combinations of wines and cheeses that give you the ?Wow!? experience. In the Wine & Cheese Pairing Guide the authors give you a running start to find your ?Wow!? combinations. They give you helpful information about cheeses, wines, and pairing. They offer pairing recommendations developed through personal experience, tasting events with other people, recommendations by wine experts, recommendations by cheese experts, and various analytical pairings. Of course, the ultimate judge of your ?Wow!? combinations is you. Your unique set of taste buds and olfactory nerve cells will identify your exciting and perfect pairings.Considering over 150 different wines and 340 different cheeses, the authors present extensive recommendations in two formats: (1) Cheese & Wine Pairing Recommendations (you select a cheese and receive recommendations of wines that pair well with that cheese) and (2) Wine & Cheese Pairing Recommendations (you select a wine and receive recommendations of cheeses that pair well with that wine).Since a step in your quest for perfect pairings is to remember your personal tasting experiences, the Wine & Cheese Pairing Guide also includes two programmed journals for you to record specifics of outstanding combinations: (1) ?My Favorite Pairings? Journal and (2) ?Oops!... I Won't Pair These Again? Jou




Cooking with Riesling


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Cooking with Chardonnay


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Cooking with Merlot


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The Wine-Lover's Holidays Cookbook


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A treasury of holiday cooking ideas, with 13 menus featuring recipes and wine selections. Includes Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, New Year's, Easter, Passover, and the Fourth of July. Cuisine is drawn from various regions of the U.S. for holiday entertaining.




Cooking with Wine


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Great Salsas !


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This collection of salsa recipes goes from very hot to mild and mellow. Here are recipes from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Far East, and our own Southwest, each simple and easy to make.




The New Wine Country Cookbook


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“This is an incredible and beautiful collection of recipes, stories about Central Coast vineyards, and photos.” —Susan Feniger, chef and author of Susan Feniger’s Street Food California’s Central Coast wine country is on everyone’s lips. Running roughly from Monterey to Santa Barbara, the Central Coast is the fastest-growing American Viticultural Area (AVA) in the state. Here, great minds conceive and create great wines—many of them blends of Rhône grape varieties. Complement these wines with the lush resources of unspoiled land, sea, and barnyard and you have the recipe for a fresh and alluring wine country lifestyle. In this lushly photographed tome, bestselling cookbook author Brigit Binns writes a vivid, delicious love letter to her home state. One hundred and twenty wine-friendly and wine-inclusive dishes showcase California’s glorious bounty, such as Shaved Artichoke and Pancetta Salad with Lavender; Fennel- and Garlic-Crusted Roast Chicken; Petrale Sole with Pinot Noir Butter Sauce; and Fresh Fig Tart with Honey, Goat Cheese, and Pistachios. Each recipe has a wine pairing suggestion from the region as well as from afar. Plus, 25 get-to-know-them profiles bring the reader inside the hearts and minds of the region’s passionate winemakers and food artisans. We all dream of the wine country lifestyle. With The New Wine Country Cookbook, you can now savor the romance, bold honest flavors, and rustic outdoor sensibility of California’s sublimely unpretentious new wine country in your own home. “Provides an evocative view of the dynamic food and wine culture of California’s fastest growing wine region.” —Rajat Parr, author of the James Beard Award–winning Secrets of the Sommeliers