10 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted in Acme Bake Shop, Acme Bake Shop Sourdough, Arugula, Boise Farmers Market, Captain's Shack, Chicken, Dinner With Robin, Heirloom Tomatoes, Housemade Soup, Local Farmers Markets, Local Markets, Muffuletta, Photos By: Bob Young, Recipe By: Robin Young, Sandwiches, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wines - Italian
Don’t shutter! (Oops! shudder) The Cold Cucumber Soup is really good and refreshing on a hot summer day, or night. Combine that with a Chicken Muffuletta and some heirloom tomato slices and some good wine and we had a good dinner.
09 Saturday Aug 2014
I just received this from Cristi at The Buzz in Boise. It looks like an exciting month. Hope to see you there. We have our beer mugs there, do you have yours? For when you come in to have a nice mug after work? Tommy will keep yours on display if you bring him one. These monthly wine dinners are one of the best wine dinner buys in Boise. 5 course meal and at least 5 wines, and sometimes more. If you are missing these, you really should try to make one. Just call for reservations. Hope to see you there, Joe Dewey! Cheers!
August at The Buzz
Hope that everyone is enjoying the last little bit of summer, we will be glad when it does cool down a little bit. We have some fun events coming up. Our music schedule is 15th Larry Clark, 22 Nancy Kelly. On August 16th we will be hosting our Classical Jam night starting around 5 PM, Come listen or join in and play with members of the chamber orchestra.
Our Wine Dinners this month are August 12th and 13th at 6:30PM, cost is $20 per person for a 5 course meal and wine with each course. We will be enjoying courses from all over the world. To make reservations please call (208) 344-4321 or email at buzzwine@cableone.net. Watch for information about our monopoly game coming in September.
Don’t forget we have opened our growler fill station and now have kombucha growlers as well. Come and check them out.
Enjoy the last few days of summer and we hope to see you soon,
Cristi and Tom Takeda
09 Saturday Aug 2014
Posted in Acme Bake Shop, Acme Bake Shop Sourdough, Android Photos, Antipasto, Arugula, Boise Farmers Market, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Chianti, Classic Cuisines, Dinner With Robin, Heirloom Tomatoes, Italian Food, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Local Markets, Meadowlark Farms, Mediterrean Foods, Photos By: Bob Young, Purple Sage Farms, Rice Family Farms, Sourdough Bread, What's For Dinner?
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Acme Bake Shop, Chesnok Red, chianti, green and yellow zucchini, heirloom tomatoes, muffeletta, Roma tomatoes
We were not in town last week, so I missed the market. But, I made up for it today. Wonderful green and yellow zucchini squash, fresh heirloom tomatoes, fresh Roma tomatoes, fresh Chesnok Red garlic, fresh arugula, fresh eggs and fresh, still warm Acme Bake Shop sourdough bread – I have two Muffulettas to make – there is a photo of the sandwich on the recipe at the link. Fresh spinach is probably done for the year – it’s too hot and the spinach bolts (goes to seed).
Some the the market area. The tent in the foreground is Meadowlark Farms, where I get my eggs.
For those of you who might be interested, this looks like a great symposium coming to the Nampa Civic Center this Fall. It might be a good thing to sign up for early. It is a very popular subject. You can use the QR code on the graphic to register.
28 Monday Jul 2014
Posted in Basil, Boise Farmers Market, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Dinner With Robin, Eggplant, Italian Food, Local Farmers Markets, Local Markets, Main Dish, Party Time, Photos By: Bob Young, Pizza, Purple Sage Farms, Recipe By: Robin Young, Recipes, Rice Family Farms, Special Dinners, Vegetables, Vegetarian Foods, What's For Dinner?, Zebra Tomatoes, Zucchini
Wow! This was really a great change and it was Good! Take a look.
Here is the recipe for the Zucchini Pancakes. Another tasty way to use up all of those zucchini you either have now or will shortly. They could make a great party appetizer/finger food treat if you eat them cold with a dipping sauce. Then there is the Eggplant Pizza. Here is a recipe that is close, Eggplant Pizza, but we altered it. Instead of using a tomato sauce, we used fresh sliced Roma tomatoes. And for the cheese we used Burrata and some Feta. I sauteed the eggplant on one side, turned it and placed the tomato slice(s) on the eggplant, then the cheese and fresh basil. When the eggplant was browned, I placed a lid on the pan and let the cheese melt. These were really yummy!
The zucchini, eggplant, onions and Roma tomatoes all came from the Boise Farmers Market. The basil and the green Zebra tomato came from our garden. Cheers!
23 Monday Jun 2014
Posted in Boise Farmers Market, Captain's Shack, Classic Sauces, Cooking Styles, Dinner At The Captains Shack, Dinner With Robin, Fruit, Healthy Eating, Heirloom Tomatoes, Herbed Hollandaise Sauce, Herbs, Hollandaise Sauce, Ice Cream, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Local Markets, Oils, Photos By: Bob Young, Salad, Salmon, Seafood, Spinach, What's For Dinner?
Such a good combination. Such a good dinner!
Fresh Garden Salad
with
carrot and cucumber threads
Heirloom Tomatoes
Meyer Lemon Infused Olive Oil and Balsamic Dressing
22 Sunday Jun 2014
Posted in Antipasto, Appetizers, Buy Idaho, Chardonnay, Comfort Food, Dinner With Robin, Hat Ranch Winery, Idaho Trout, Idaho Wine, Interesting Information, Local Harvests, Locavore, Main Dish, Marsing, Merlot, Orchard House, Photos By: Bob Young, Restaurants, Snake River AVA, Special Dinners, Special Events, Special Information, Syrah, The Orchard House, Things To Do, Trout, Weston On The Lake Winery, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wines - Idaho
Clear blue skies! Light, cooling breezes! 88 degree temperatures. Only thing missing is a tempting ocean breeze. We spent the day both at Hat Ranch Winery off of Plum Road in Marsing (their postal address is in Caldwell) and the Snake River AVA and then to a wonderful dinner at The Orchard House. Hat Ranch was releasing their Tempranillo, which is very good. The Orchard House has good meatloaf.
Hat Ranch Winery bought Vale Wine Co., as some of you might already know. Some of the Vale wines were there for us to try also. Their Chardonnay is really a good one and will pare well with foods that need a citru match. Not an oaky chardonnay. The appetizers that they had to accompany the wines, see the photo of the menu board below, were a perfect match. Enjoy these photos and if you are in the area, stop in at both Hat Ranch Winery and The Orchard House. You won’t be disappointed. Cheers!
Hat Ranch Winery, Tempranillo release party, menu board.
A very good Redpepper Hummus. Not overly spiced.
Good selections on the Antipasto Platter.
Some of the wines we tried. The Tempranillo will pair with most foods, especially Italian or Spanish.
The Vale Wine Co., Chardonnay.
And then, we went to The Orchard House for dinner. Goodbye diet for today! We always enjoy the meals here. If I were to choose which meal I would constantly get here, it would definitely be the breakfast. It is just so satisfying. But today, we had a good Meatloaf dinner and an Idaho Trout dinner. This is one place that you can get a good meatloaf away from your own kitchen. The Orchard House is located at 14949 Sunnyslope Road, Caldwell (just outside of Marsing) in the Snake River AVA.
We had to check this bottle of wine out. It really is named for the Weiser Old Tyme Fiddlers Festival, which is just over for the year.
This is the back of the bottle. Good information. Left-Click this or any of these photos to see them enlarged.
Robin had this good Idaho Trout dinner.
I had their Meatloaf Dinner. Just a good ol’ down home dinner. We did buy a bottle of Shane Weston’s 2009 Weston On The Lake Pinot Gris. Such a great day today. Super great tour of the area, of sorts, with Robin.
20 Friday Jun 2014
Posted in Avocado, Bacon, Boise Farmers Market, Captain's Shack, Dinner At The Captains Shack, Dinner With Robin, Garlic, Heirloom Tomatoes, Herbs, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Local Markets, Main Dish, Pasta, Photos By: Bob Young, Recipe by: Robin and Bob Young, Salad, Tomatoes, What's For Dinner?, Wines - Tuscan
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Last night we had this wonderful and light Bacon and Avocado Pasta Salad that Robin found. We only drifted from the original recipe a very little. The type of pasta used, heirloom tomatoes and garlic. Look at the recipe. Try it. The recipe is also permanently listed in the recipe file above. Serve it with a good Tuscan wine.
18 Wednesday Jun 2014
Posted in Acme Bake Shop, Acme Bake Shop Breads, Acme Bake Shop Sourdough, Basil, Boise Artisan Bakery's, Boise Farmers Market, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Carrots, Comfort Food, Dinner At The Captains Shack, Dinner With Robin, Ethnic Foods, Herbs, Italian Food, Lasagna, Local Farmers Markets, Pasta, Photos By: Bob Young, Purple Sage Farms, Salad, Tomatoes, Trader Joe's, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wines - Italian, Wines - Tuscan
Yes lasagna! And summer starts Saturday! Light snow around the Sun Valley area. 66 degrees F and light rain here today. So it really did taste good. Actually, we had to try some Trader Joe’s lasagna and it was pretty good. Add a nice glass of 2004 Collazzi Toscana and the meal was complete. Here is a photo of what we had. Enjoy, we did!
Fresh Salad Greens and Tomato
Acme Bake Shop Toasted Sourdough
2004 Collazzi Toscana
13 Friday Jun 2014
Posted in Beer and Food, Boise Farmers Market, Captain's Shack, Carrots, Cheese, Dinner At The Captains Shack, Dinner With Robin, Garlic, Herbs and Spices, Italian Food, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Local Markets, Main Dish, Photos By: Bob Young, Recipes, Salad, Salmon, Seafood, Spices, Vegetables, What's For Dinner?
In fact, these are made from some fresh salmon. Breading is totally different from the store bought “things”. The recipe follows the photo. Enjoy! We did. This is an awesome way to make salmon.
Special Dipping Sauce
Fanned Baked Sweet Potato
Fresh Green Garden Salad
Full Sail LTD Lager
And the recipe for both the salmon and the dipping sauce.
Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis
Total Time: 21 min Prep: 4 min Cook: 17 min Yield: 4 to 6 servings
Level: Easy
Ingredients:
1 (18-ounce) center-cut Salmon Fillet, about 9 by 4 inches, skinned
1/2 c All-Purpose Flour
1/2 t fine Sea Salt
1/4 t freshly ground Black Pepper
3 Egg Whites
1 c grated Parmesan
1 c seasoned Bread Crumbs
Olive oil, for drizzling
1/3 c Mayonnaise
1/3 c Plain Yogurt
1 T Dijon Mustard
1 T chopped fresh Parsley or Chives
Directions: For the Fish Sticks:
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
Rinse the salmon fillet and pat dry with paper towels. Cut the fish in half to make 2 fillets each about 4 by 4 1/2-inches in size. Starting on the longest edge, slice the fillets into 1/2-inch pieces. Lay the widest pieces, from the center, cut side down, and slice in half lengthways so all the pieces are equally about 1/2 by 1/2 by 4 1/2-inches in size.
Place the flour in a medium bowl and season with the salt and pepper. Place the egg whites in another bowl and beat until frothy, about 30 seconds. Combine the Parmesan and bread crumbs in a third bowl.
Coat the salmon pieces in the seasoned flour and pat to remove any excess flour. Dip the floured salmon in the egg whites and then into the Parmesan mixture, gently pressing the mixture into the fish. Place the breaded salmon pieces on a liberally oiled baking sheet. Drizzle lightly with the olive oil. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until golden brown.
Directions: Dipping Sauce:
Mix the mayonnaise, yogurt, Dijon mustard, and parsley (or chives, if using) in a small dipping bowl.
Arrange the fish sticks on a serving platter and serve with the dipping sauce.
11 Wednesday Jun 2014
Another interesting night and wine dinner at the Buzz in Boise. And just in time for the summer season – Grilled foods and selecting the right wine to go with the food. Cristi also let everyone know that they are putting a a beer tap system for local beers and she wants our suggestions. My suggestion is (1) Cloud 9 Nano Brewery in the Albertson’s Shopping Center on State Street and (2) 10 Barrel Brewery in downtown Boise. Here are some photos from tonight’s dinner and my wine ratings. A perfect score is [20]. Enjoy and Cheers!
Peggy is grilling skewers for dinner.
![Wines prior to dinner. I did not particularly like the white one [11] and the red was just a little better [12]. I have had much better wines from both these wineries.](https://boisefoodieguild.blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10june2014_1_the-buzz-grilling_cristis-choice.jpg?w=524&h=348)
Wines prior to dinner. I did not particularly like the white one [11] and the red was just a little better [12]. I have had much better wines from both these wineries.
![The best wine of the night was this one. I scored it a perfect [20]. Full bodied and went extremely well with the beef and chicken skewers and the corn on the cob.](https://boisefoodieguild.blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10june2014_1a_the-buzz-grilling_20-pt-wine.jpg?w=524&h=348)
The best wine of the night was this one. I scored it a perfect [20]. Full bodied and went extremely well with the beef and chicken skewers and the corn on the cob. 2011 If You See Kay
![Pulled Pork Sliders 2010 Renwood Clarion a blend of Syrah and Zin [17]](https://boisefoodieguild.blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10june2014_1c_the-buzz-grilling_pulled-pork-sliders.jpg?w=524&h=348)
Peggy made the sauce for these and it was good. Almost a Carolina style with a hint of vinegar.
![Grilled Romaine Salad 2012 Basal Cellars Estate Semillion [17]](https://boisefoodieguild.blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10june2014_1d_the-buzz-grilling_grilled-romaine-salad.jpg?w=524&h=348)
![Roasted Vegetable Soup 2009 MontGras Antu Ninquen Syrah [18]](https://boisefoodieguild.blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10june2014_1e_the-buzz-grilling_grilled-vegetable-soup.jpg?w=524&h=348)
This wine went very well with the soup. A good paring.
![Chicken and Beef Skewers with Corn On-The-Cob 2011 If You See Kay [20]](https://boisefoodieguild.blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10june2014_1f_the-buzz-grilling_chix-beef-skewers.jpg?w=524&h=348)
A superb wine offering tonight and a great paring with the skewers and corn.
![S'mores Cake Fratelli Casa Rosa [18]](https://boisefoodieguild.blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10june2014_1g_the-buzz-grilling_smores-cake.jpg?w=524&h=348)
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