)...As much as I’d love to support local industry, I find these to be unpalatable on their own. I wonder if they can be used as a successful substitute for Calvados, which, I assume, would be much smoother and flavorful...

I also add some garlic and use red wine - but here’s the big one – I use an immersion blender on the sauce – it makes a much smoother finished product

theirs so quickly. Wines by the glass were quite pleasant – I had a southern France syrah/grenache blend, followed by a Carmenere they suggested with the lamb shank. The French wine was much smoother than the Chilean,...

. Corn was still on the books for our appetizer which was Cancha or simply, dry fried corn. The cancha were similar to corn nuts, but with a smoother texture. There wasn’t anything special about the cancha, but it’s a...

Becky, are you contemplating a situation in which 20 people sit down, each gets a menu, orders according to individual tastes (including drinks), some have soup, some not, some have dessert, some not, there’s no consensus...

: rich and velvety. Sweeter and broader than the 2002 but less deep too. Again beautifully balanced (though differently, as befits the vintage). Wood more chocolately. Tannins smoother though, like the 2002, they linger on the...

. While our waitress was nice, she took quite a while to open our wine and never did bring the bread she’d offered until, 10 minutes later, we reminded her. We were lucky, however, as I noticed the people at the next table...

the thing on this steamy night), a salad of lentils du Puy, frisee, and honeydew-like Cavaillon melon (not very good, rather dull), and grilled bluefish with cream of corn, bacon, and wax beans (excellent). Wine, a very nice...

smoother if it had been passed through a sieve, aside from a couple of grains of meat that appeared to have fallen in from a neighboring vat. We virtually never complain at restaurants, but we had to ask. Of course, we were...

Way too much wine for my taste! My ratio is closer to 1/2 cup wine to a pound of cheese. I use cornstarch instead of flour, makes for a smoother result, and I don’t usually bother with the kirsch ('cause I never have any on...

Here’s a link to Ina Garten’s Roasted Salmon Nicoise Platter. I’ve made it, and it’s perfect for a do-ahead luncheon. Some nice bread, a glass of wine, and a simple dessert will round out the menu....

soju is hardly smooth. even the smoother ones such as san and chamisul are best served with foods with a wallop of flavor, such as spicy stew or barbeque. besides beer and soju, i suggest bekseju, the yellowish wine. good stuff.

this was the closest. Sam Adams Titanium Porter had a strong espresso taste to it which was good, but the Steampipe was the smoother porter overall. It reminded me of their double bock a lot. The Shaw’s Dukinfield Best...

, the bstilla, a choice of entrees, and a choice of desserts. Saturday night the soup choices were pumpkin and lentil; we have a lot of squash at home, so I had the lentil. It was smoother than other lentil soups I’ve had,...

with it. The cheese puffs are a must-try. Their wine list is excellent. Have a great dinner there.