Sometimes you just have to live on the edge. After a weekend of blog work, and facebook, and twitter, and yelp and managing photos, and learning how to tolerate post-braces retainers, and actually writing recipes that are more than "some of this and some of that", Jake and I decided to just hang on Monday. After quick kitchen examination, I located two potatoes (one for each of us) and a nice yellow onion (half an onion for each of us); plus we had a bottle of chilled Cava (see a quick explanation on Cava after the post) in the fridge; plus I still had my deep frier on the counter and ready for service. End result: Fresh made potato chips, fresh made onion rings and a bottle of Cava.
The desert weather finally started to cool, so we ate our chips and rings along with our bubbly on the back deck (if you visit Jake's Photography links you'll shots of the amazing mountain views we have)... PERFECT WAY TO START THE WEEK!
These turned out amazing. I saved the recipe. If I posted it would you make them?
Ready to eat; bowl of fresh salt & pepper chips, and onion rings; glasses waiting to be filled with chilled Cava.
MUCH MORE AFTER THE BREAK
Cava - a quick primer
The desert weather finally started to cool, so we ate our chips and rings along with our bubbly on the back deck (if you visit Jake's Photography links you'll shots of the amazing mountain views we have)... PERFECT WAY TO START THE WEEK!
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| Fresh made onion rings |
These turned out amazing. I saved the recipe. If I posted it would you make them?
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| Chips, Rings and Bubbly... |
Ready to eat; bowl of fresh salt & pepper chips, and onion rings; glasses waiting to be filled with chilled Cava.
MUCH MORE AFTER THE BREAK
Cava - a quick primer
Cava is the Spanish version of sparkling wine, and is
generally made like Champagne (Methode Champenoise), basically meaning, its
secondary (bubble making) fermentation is in the bottle. The Spaniards use an
assortment of traditional Spanish grapes for Cava, including the three most
common:
- Macabeo - Nice aromatics such as wild flowers, and bitter almonds. This grape thrives in the arid Spanish interior.
- Parellada - This grape offers nice citrus and golden apple notes.
- Xarel-lo - Green Apples, and bright acidity.
Cava is growing rapidly in its popularity and can be
found in most well stocked wine and liquor stores, and is generally far less
expensive than French Champagnes.
Stay Tuned: I
have a client in Temecula who has planted all these traditional varieties and
is in the process of making a Cava style sparkling wine to sell in the U.S.
market. I'll let you know as soon as it's available! In the meantime,
I'll be looking for options to offer at my soon to be unveiled Mood Wine online
wine club and store.
Delish is how this looks!!! I just want to reach into my computer screen, pick up an onion ring and bite it! Potato chips are my favorite snacks ever...really, you have made me happy just looking at this photo!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ruth!!! We are hoping to do a Sparkling wine promo through Mood Wine in November, maybe we'll do a tasting with Sparklers and House made chips and rings... :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm dying! I clicked on the onion ring photo and it enlarged and it looks so good. Perfectly cooked. I'll bet it was delicious. Yes, please post the recipe.
ReplyDeleteThanks Colin - I will. Now if I can figure out how to get them to the bubbles on the rocks gathering I want to plan...
ReplyDeleteOMG. Just awesome. Can't wait to see you guys this weekend (-Mark).
ReplyDeleteHi Patrick -- our mutual friend, Ruth suggested that I check out your blog. And though she did give me fair warning that it would make me hungry -- the warning should have read -- DO NOT READ THIS WHILE STILL AT WORK. It made for the longest last hour of my work day! The food looks beautiful -- and I went back and read the earlier postings you have -- again -- because there was no real warning.... You write beautifully as well. I am excited to see more of your posts and I am definitely giving the crab cake recipe a try this weekend!
ReplyDeleteKathleen -- (Walnut Creek, CA)
Hey Kathleen, thanks so much. Sorry to be the cause of your workday torment... well not really LOL! Please let me know how your crab cakes turn out! Send me pictures :-)
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