Recipe: Pasta con Duck Confit
This delicious recipe uses Duck Confit, bacon and white beans to harken back to Cassoulet…..
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This delicious recipe uses Duck Confit, bacon and white beans to harken back to Cassoulet…..
Continue reading~ Lavender & Sunflowers in Provence ~ As we say goodbye to winter, I decided to kick it out with one final classic winter dish, Cassoulet. Cassoulet originates from the Provence region of France and at it’s most basic…
Continue readingAfter decking out the house in all the holiday trimmings, it was time for some comfort food and comfort wine. In the simplest terms, it doesn’t get any better than this. The 1995 Castello Banfi Brunello di Montalcino is 17…
Continue readingDon’t be! I hear one of two things when people talk to me about risotto. Either, it’s so hard to make (wrong!) or “it’s just rice” (mostly wrong!) This little primer is meant to debunk these two myths. In the…
Continue readingThe Cotarella brothers would be quite the formidable pair if one were to compile a list of noteworthy Italian vintners. Renzo Cotarella is head winemaker for the famed Antinori estates, crafting such wonderful wines as Solaia, Tignanello, and Badia a Passignano Chianti Classico…
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