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Friday, May 15, 2009
I had an interview in Menlo Park this morning (it went okay), and afterward I took the opportunity (since I'm not often in Menlo these days) to check out the new Penzey's Spices store that opened last year. It was pretty sweet! I had a coupon for a free jar of ground black pepper, which I used mostly to get a free spice jar. I figure I'll use what I can over the next month or two, pitch the rest, and then fill it up with something else. I have many spices sitting in plastic bags.
Ryan and Jon bought me a jar of Mexican vanilla extract from Penzey's a few years ago. It was, bar none, the best vanilla I've ever tasted/smelled/used. They stopped carrying it a while back, I guess because the crop had shrunk or something. So I was all a-woe and went back to Madagascar/Tahitian vanilla. BUT! Apparently, although they don't say they carry it in their catalogs or on their website, they DO have it in their physical stores! I was so incredibly excited to see it (almost as much as that time I was at Baja Fresh and they had switched from Pepsi to Coke products). So I ended up buying the Mexican vanilla, some chili powder, the Pasta Sprinkle I like, and the free pepper.
The store's really cute, too. Go visit!
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
I was making some tomato sauce a few weeks ago, and I needed some red wine. Looking through our wine... document box, I discovered that ALL our wine is incredibly old (for a household of people who don't really care about that sort of thing). I used the newest bottle, which was a 2003 Ridge California Zinfandel York Creek. I only needed about a half cup for the sauce. The rest of the bottle was quite delicious.
My folks were over on Tuesday, and I told them about our old wines. I pulled out the oldest one, which was a 1997 Robert Mondavi Chardonnay. My mom boggled and told me I shouldn't keep white wines that long, and that it'd be a miracle if it hadn't turned to vinegar by this point. (A miracle it would be indeed, because we have never kept our wines properly [as evidenced by the document box storage]. Hell, we kept them out in the garage back in the old house, where they were subjected to a rather large swing of temperature.) But it wasn't vinegar! It was still pretty tasty! And I'm not really a fan of white wines.
So I thought I'd make a list of the wines we have. I don't know if any of these are good- I'm pretty sure most of them are gifts that we just never opened. A rather surprising amount of dessert wines.
1997 Monastero di Coriano Vin Santo - this was a gift from my parents
1999 Benziger McNab Ranch Merlot - this was probably a gift from my parents, since they know I like merlot
2000 Robert Mondavi Moscato d'Oro - pretty sure both the Mondavi bottles we had were inherited from Jeremy, who gave us all his wine&booze once he was tired of moving all the bottles around
2000 Beringer Gamay Beaujolais
2001 Beaulieu Vineyard BV Coastal Signature Series Merlot - once again, pretty sure this was a gift to me
2001 Victor Hugo Petite Sirah
2001 Byington Alliage Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon
2003 Schmitt Sohne Riesling
2005 Bonny Doon Moscato d'Asti
2006 Imagery Petite Syrah Port - birthday present this year from my parents, it's delicious with really dark chocolate
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