Risotto with mushrooms, onions, radicchio tomatoes and roasted shallots.

www.vinocellar.com -- Mm-Mm-good

Leftover Lentil soup and some quesadillas with habanero sauce for a little flavor.

seasoned pork roast, quick fried w/ garlic to brown, baked with portobello mushrooms, potato's, baby carrots, zuchinni, yellow onions. paired with 00' Estancia Cabernet.

the Estancia is still sitting on my kitchen counter. a TN into it, we switched to a 01' Concannon PS

[This message was edited by kumazam on Feb 21, 2004 at 12:52 AM.]

WIML was over for dinner tonight since he's off to Pittsburgh in the morning. We had:

Duck prosciutto crostini with arugala and shaved pecorino

Peppered veal tenderloin wrapped in prosciutto with creamy gorgonzola polenta, chanterelle and black trumpet mushrooms, and a veal stock reduction sauce

Creme brulee

Served with dinnner:

2001 Antonin Rodet Syrah
1998 Podere Poggio Scalette 'Il Carbonaione'
1999 Barone Ricasoli Casalferro (Sangiovese/Merlot blend)
2002 Brian Loring Gary's Vineyard Pinot Noir
NV R.L. Buller Fine Muscat

A wonderful dinner, and a fine ending to WIML's trip to Toronto. It was great meeting you, and I hope you had a good time while you were here, man!

[This message was edited by futronic on Feb 21, 2004 at 07:59 AM.]

Friday night - delivery pizza - a nice once-in-a-month treat

pizza with blood oranges, arugula and serrano jamon yesterday. poussins with green garlic today.
hey gabriel, what what did you drink with habanero sauce?

Free Martha!

Wednesday night had St. Peter's Fish at the Eilat Cafe in Boca Raton. Not all that bad.

Thursday night had some nice lamb chops at the Kee Grille in Del Ray (or maybe it is Boca Raton) with a Raymonds Cabernet 2001.

(Shot a 93 Thursday morning. 3 mental mistakes cost me around 6 strokes. Rented clubs.)

Irwin

"Life is short....start with the dessert."

Last night:

Cheese course, Salad, Beef Wellington, Twice Baked Potatoes, and Chocolate Cake

@ my re-affirmed favorite place for steak, 3950 in Mandalay Bay, LV;

CA Central Coast Oysters w/ Beluga Caviar on ice

Baby Arugula salad w/ goat cheese, roma tomato's w/ a chopped bacon/oil dressing

NY Strip with garlic mashed potato's & baby asparagus

Creme Brule

99' Stags Leap Estate CS Reserve

salmon fillets with garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, rosemary, thyme and oregano and fingerling potatoes with '02 Brocard Fourchaume and Edna Valley West Slope Chardonnay, i believe '01 vintage. grilled skirt steak with onions and jalapenos tonight, not sure about wine yet.

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Braised rabbit with vegetable ragout. Rabbit is a tasty animal

all animals are tasty!

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am i the only one eating all the time?
just had lobster sandwich for lunch which had steamed lobster, and she was big, avocado, tomatoes, my own mayo, lettuce and crisp bacon in it with West Slope chardy. dinner is in the oven and has been there for almost three hours, it's a lamb stew night! with fresh porcini risotto, gremolata and 1999 Mordoree Lirac.

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you're just too fancy for us g

last night i had homemade chicken soup w/ grilled cheese & a big glass of milk. for desert, chocolate covered banana & homemade cheese cake w/ cherry jam topping & coffee (some of mom's birthday stuff from the neighbor's)

i saw Tony Soprano drinking milk with his pasta a season or two ago and that image will stay with me forever.
p.s. kumazam, what's the alcohol content of your milk?

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grunhauser: Are you the only one eating? Come on, man, you know me better than that! My doctor says the only problem I have is a hyperactive fork.

Went on Sunday night to Sundy's, a great place in Del Ray Beach, FL. One of the most spectacularly beautiful restaurants to which I have ever been. The food was great, the wine was fine. Didn't actually see the wine list as the 4 of us were doing the by the glass routine. I had a mixed grill of osso bucco and lamb chops after a starter of calamari in aioli. Terrific. The menu was quite clever.
I heartily recommend it, though I will warn people that it was pretty doggone expensive.
(This won't matter to CDR11 and his cash carrying crowd).
Now, back home in Baltimore.

Irwin

"Life is short....start with the dessert."

it was a mating call
tonight - putanesca with '97 Fontodi classico. earlier today - green curry, shrimp/crab rolls at Thai Ginger in Petaluma, a very nice place. no alcohol outside a huge sign was starring at me the whole time. what a stupid, stupid law. we should let them borrow our brave boy Newsom for a day or two!

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Chicken breats stuffed with Kalamata olives and goat cheese and then poached in the oven within a nice simple onion/garlic tomato sauce. Served with haricot vert and then we made a nice basil/spinach pesto in which I melted into the red sauce to tighten things up.

i'm giving skippy a second chance tonight. we'll see, if she likes to be stir-fried in the wok.

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Had some oven baked chicken and roasted brussel sprouts with garlic and a nice Graves tonight.
Baked apple for dessert.

Irwin

"Life is short....start with the dessert."

Spinach gnocchi with a simple tomato sauce. Mmm mmm pillowy soft gnocchi.

update: kangaroo came out perfect! marinated most of the day in soy sauce, honey, NZ sea salt, african cayenne pepper and a 10year old balzamic, then qickly stir-fried with 1 red and 1 green chilli peppers, ginger, garlic and young onions. served with sesame rice and just warmed through snap peas and broccolini on the side and a bottle of Pipers Brook pinot '00. a winner! no comparison to my last encounter with this beast.

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Ate at Due last night in Owings Mills MD.
4 of us.
I had a calamari starter and osso bucco, with spinach and asparagus sides. The others had salad and a tuna, with porcini mushrooms, olive tapanade and veggies.
We had a 2000 Phelps "La Mistral"-mostly Syrah and Granache with a few other things mixed in, and an Antinori Chianti Classico 2001.

This is the best osso bucco around, and I bring the bone home for the dog.

Irwin

"Life is short....start with the dessert."

Irwin, do you ever eat at home?

Last night it was oriechette with roast chicken, escarole, shiitake mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes. Nipozzano, Villa Cerna & Fonterutoli Chianti Classicos with that.

Last night:

Dry-aged rib eyes, portabello mushrooms, and creamy gorgonzola polenta

Trio of chocolate desserts

To drink:

2001 Leone de Castris Primitivo di Manduria Santera
NV Quinto de Ventozelo Porto Reserva

Tonight:

Mussels steamed in Chardonnay and garlic
Chilean sea bass, rapini and leftover polenta from last night.

2001 Grove Mill Marlborough Chardonnay

Haven't figured out how I'm going to prepare the sea bass yet.