March 20, 2011 new recipes

This evening we started off with Baba Ghanouj, from Epicurious.com. In reading a little about Baba Ghanouj on the web, there are a lot of variations out there, and a lot of opinions about what is right. This was easy and quite tasty--I am looking forward to trying other recipes in the future.

The main course was also new, a Lentil Soup with Spicy Italian Sausage, also from Epicurious.com. You might consider this a rustic dish, but it was fabulous. The vegetables, including celery, onion, carrot and parsnip gave it a wonderful, sweet earthy depth.

The wine was a 2007 Stoller Pinot Noir.

March 19, 2011 new recipe

The new recipe today was Italian Sausage and Wild Mushroom Risotto from Epicurious.com. It was excellent! It takes a long time, but this is the creamiest risotto I have ever made, and the flavors were excellent! We had it with the Pea Salad I made earlier in the week.

The wine was a 2008 Terredora DiPaolo Aglianico--a very nice match with the risotto!