Cork Talk

A Wine Adventure in Lodi California

2:36 a.m. (Daylight Savings Time-an hour already lost) Awake with anxiety I might oversleep, and twenty minutes before my alarm, I stumbled out of bed.  Indulge me for a few minutes with this read while I take you on my first solo wine travel adventure through the wine region of Lodi California. Thirty-five miles south
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Blood Orange Honey Sour Cocktail
Cocktails

Blood Orange Honey Cocktail

My friends it is citrus season. We need to embrace all the beautiful citrus available this time of year, and if you can get your hands on a few blood oranges, I have a cocktail for you.  A fun, just strong enough patio pounder perfect for a weekend afternoon with family and friends. Turn up

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Food + Drink

Best Sourdough Banana Bread

If you are following my new adventures with Herman my sourdough you will not be disappointed in this banana bread recipe. I admit Herman is complicated, alive, and he’s beginning to feel like a member of the family. There are a million ways to make banana bread. I feel like I have made so many

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Cork Talk

Storing Your Wine, And Why It Matters

  My wine cooler is well stocked but not well organized, and that also goes for my closets which hold wine boxes, and a box or two, that may or may not be under my bed. You would think being a wine person I drink a lot of wine. Probably not as much as you

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stack of sourdough pancakes
Food + Drink

Best Sourdough Pancakes

I am late to the sourdough craze. During the pandemic I managed to avoid the sourdough baking adventure. Reminded me too much of the Amish friendship bread starters thirty years ago where I found myself babysitting a Ziploc bag of gloopy glob, that had to be fed and shared regularly with friends, neighbors, or whoever

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Vietnamese Bánh Mì Sandwich
Food + Drink

Roasted Pork Bánh Mí Vietnamese Sandwich

This is a story about a Vietnamese Bánh Mi sandwich and the powerful language of food. Working the holiday rush on your feet is exhausting. A perpetual cycle of work, sleep, and repeat.  You join the chorus of your co-workers each morning willing your tired bodies with good coffee, and a personally selected dance song

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