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Foodie Friday: Food Art

Colleen — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:17:02 +0000

Art is all over. Even in food. I make my living combining food and art through POS in various restaurants and bars around the country and I love, love, love what I do.

My husband also combines food and art but in a much different manner. He is a chef who specializes in garde manger. In addition to his wonderful edible creations, he also does the following:

You should go visit his site here.

Foodie Friday: Wine Tastings 02-22-10

Colleen — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:58:31 +0000

We have wine tastings at work occasionally. It’s great doing what I do. This week we tried some Luigi Bosca wines. They were excellent. Unfortunately, I didn’t think to take pictures that day. I have been so busy lately I’m amazed I remember to breathe at times.

The second tasting we had was with St. Supery. Again, excellent wines. This wine tasting we tried something a little different from all other tastings… we voted for our personal favorites from the large selection we tried.

The overall winner of the group was Virtu.

It was very good. Luckily, I was able to get a bottle to bring home. After I finish the open bottles I have (which I am happy to talk about as well) I will thoroughly enjoy this wine again.

And how cool are those labels? I was able to take an empty bottle of the Elu for my label collection as well.

If you have a chance to try the Virtu one evening out, jump at it. The wine is well worth your time and your tastebuds will be VERY happy with you.

Foodie Friday: Craving Mexican

Colleen — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:41:01 +0000

I haven’t been able to get my Fridays going yet. And I’m a couple of days late here this week. But I am still going to include this.

Friday evening I was craving Mexican food and a margarita after a VERY long week at work… but Sailor Hubby wasn’t interested in going out after he got home. I was able to convince him to go for lunch on Saturday, though.

We ended up at PURE in Woodstock. It was a little more expensive than I really wanted to spend, but we got more than enough food. We were both able to finish about half of what we got.

We started with mango margaritas – frozen for me, on the rocks for SH, and a shot each of pineapple infused tequila. Mmmmm.

Then our appetizer, Queso Fundido with Chorizo. So delish!

And last, but certainly not least, the entrees. SH got the pork gorditas while I had the chicken taquitos.

So happy, and finally relaxed. At least for the rest of the afternoon.

Karma – Cafe

Colleen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:43:16 +0000

If anyone knows of someplace like this in the Metro-Atlanta area, please let me know!

My Sweetie Pie is Published…

Colleen — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:51:53 +0000

… and so am I, sort of. Unfortunately, since I actually wrote the article, they thought it would look funny that the author was the wife of the subject, so no by-line. Oh, well.

The article is on the website, http://www.imidrinks.com/index.html. You must be of legal drinking age to enter the site. Once you are in the site, click on In the Mix Magazine, click on number 4 (Winter 07). As you flip through the pages, the first time you see Ron’s work (with the exception of a small call-out box on the cover) is on page 50. The big ceviche was made by Ron. Next, page 51, not only is the lamb dish prepared by Ron, the recipe for the sauce was created by him!

The big article is on pages 66 and 67. The whole article is on him and his career. I think it’s fairly well written. The pictures turned out great. (Now I just need to update his website and he’s good to go).