Wine Events, Wine Education, Journalist
I WAS happily stirring rice last weekend for my version of risotto when I started thinking about wine with food. No apologies if I’ve said this before … I love wine, I love food, I love wine with food. I love cooking with wine. It’s thanks to my favourite combo that I have a wine […]
Take one bottle of Fiano, add rice … then stir and slurp Read More »
I WALKED around work with a Post-it note stuck to my jumper last October. It said: “Don’t discuss The Great British Bake Off … I haven’t watched it yet!!” This year I’m at least four episodes behind and playing catch-up. I can see a Post-It note coming out again! The other night I watched a man make a
Great British Bake Off and drinks with sweet things Read More »
BRITISH Food Fortnight 2015 is well underway … I enjoy British food the rest of the year too, but when these things come along it’s an excuse for one of my foodie Scientific Experiments. For your benefit I’ve roasted a chicken, plated up a Ploughman’s and coaxed a crispy topping onto a cottage pie. Chicken and
British Food Fortnight is great excuse to eat (and drink wine!) Read More »
I had a lovely bottle of Bordeaux at French restaurant Caveau in Liverpool the other night. Château Cru Cantemerle, Bordeaux Supérieur 2012 was ruddy with redcurrants, pecked with pepper and tickled with a touch a tobacco. It was a very moreish glass of something to sit alongside my plate of grilled lamb cutlets served with
Dine with Bordeaux and enjoy great food and wine pairings Read More »
IT’S always lovely to meet Real People behind wines. I was lucky enough to “break bread” with Silvano Brescianini, the CEO of Barone Pizzini, from the heart of Franciacorta, Italy, and enjoy his wines with a lovely bunch of people at Liverpool’s Bretta & Co shop and bistro just off Bold Street. Now I love franciacorta sparkling
A night of wine and food celebrating Barone Pizzini and Italian wines Read More »
I’m a bit flaky around the edges because this week I have mainly been eating pies. I’ve been trying wines too because you don’t get many pies to the pound in a wine column. What scientific experiment have I cooked up this week? Well, it’s British Pie Week from Monday (March 2). As a Northern
Who would have thought there is a day devoted to the humble yet wondrous Yorkshire Pudding. I love a Yorkshire pud, even better, I love its traditional accompaniment of beef. So when someone told me that tomorrow, Sunday, is The Day to celebrate Yorkshire puddings (always the first Sunday in February apparently) it seemed a
Wine Press: Roast beef, wine and National Yorkshire Pudding Day Read More »
I MADE burgers the other day. I needed burgers for the barbie. There weren’t any in the shops. I could have flattened meatballs, but I felt sorry for them, sitting there pert and plump and perfect and expectant. I would have felt like I’d squashed a fly. So I made some. Perfect timing too, as this coming Wednesday, t’internet tells me, is National Burger Day. (Not for the
Wine Press: National Burger Day and red wines to disguise disasters Read More »
SOME nights you can’t be bothered going overboard cooking food, but you still neeeeeeed a glass of midweek wine. Beans on toast may be the way to go. Or sausage and mash. Or chippie shop fish and chips. A tikka masala ready meal? If you want to perk up your plates (and who can blame you)
Baked beans? You can have anything with a midweek wine Read More »