New recipe, September 17, 2011

Tonight's new recipe is Thai Inspired Shrimp Stir Fry from Epicurious. This has a lot of great Thai flavors--lemongrass, garlic, ginger, chili, mint and vinegar--but it is too sweet and lacks a balancing sweetness. If I do this again, I will be adding some fish sauce, and cutting back on the sweetener. My favorite rice wine vinegar mix for vegetables and such has 3 tablespoons of vinegar, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and 1 teaspoon of salt--this had equal parts of vinegar and sugar.

Wine: Vigneto di Gino Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi 2009. Not what I would necessarily gave predicted would go well with this dish, but some was left, and it had enough fruit and body that it worked pretty well!