Another spaghetti dish but the full fat version this time – lot’s of double cream and cheese. This is a mysterious Italian dish from Jamie’s Italy which he claims is an old Italian recipe. We’ve looked in all of our Italian cookbooks and cannot find a reference to it anywhere. We even asked a real [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wine’
Spaghetti Tetrazzini
Posted in Food, tagged Chicken, Cooking, Italian, Jamie Oliver, Mushrooms, Recipe, Spaghetti, Wine on 13 November 2011 | 5 Comments »
Wine of the Week: Badajo Rueda
Posted in Wine, Wine of the Week, tagged Recommendation, review, Rueda, Spain, Wine on 11 September 2011 | 1 Comment »
A very eye-catching wine label and a delightful wine to drink as well. This was brought over by our friend Jennifer from one of our local wine shops: The Wine Boutique in Ringsend, Dublin. Being from Rueda in central Spain this wine is dominated by Verdejo, but interestingly it also has some Albillo, a little [...]
An easy Corbières for a cold & wet summer evening in Dublin
Posted in France, Wine, tagged Carignan, Corbieres, Grenache, Languedoc, red wine, Syrah, Wine on 24 June 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Reserve du Reverend, Corbières 2009, €9.95 from Mitchell & Son, Dublin Jules and I regularly drink wines from the south of France, we find them reliable and usually good value; the Reserve du Reverend is no exception. Corbières is the largest appellation in the Languedoc, southern France. As such it has the advantage of good, warm weather [...]
Jono & Jules’ Wine of the Week: an interesting bubbly
Posted in France, Sparkling, Wine, Wine of the Week, tagged Antech, Blanquette, Low Alcohol, review, Sparkling, Wine, Wine of the Week on 22 February 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We opened this as a a birthday on a week night treat. We wanted bubbles, but also liked the idea of lower alcohol, and it hit the spot very nicely! Antech, Doux Blanquette Méthode Ancestrale NV (£8.95 form the Wine Society, UK) This wine is a bit of a throw back and is made in [...]
Whiting Dugléré
Posted in Fish, Food, France, Wine, tagged Cooking, Fish, French, Harvey Nicholls, I Know How to Cook, Muscadet, Recipe, Whiting, Wine on 20 January 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jono picked up this Whiting for just over €3 for 500g – the challenge then was finding a recipe to use it with. This one is from “I Know How to Cook” (the French Silver Spoon) which we got at Christmas but hadn’t used yet. The sauce is delicious and the fish cooks just right. [...]
