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Two food notes for the Nashville folks:
* If you're at the Tomato Fest this weekend, you might want to check out Pickle Me This at Booth 105. Yummy stuff (...and, fwiw, Sarah Wilson sez eating fermented stuff is good both for your immune system and for kicking sugar cravings)
* The cabernet sauvignon by Beachaven (Clarksville) is darn nice. (The zin, though, is too sweet for most people's tastes.) And if you're into jazz, they have a lawn concert series going on
I got to sample both the pickles and the wine at a dinner this past Saturday night hosted by my friends Tanya and Lannae and their families. The theme of the dinner was locally produced foods, and it was a fundraiser for my church (i.e., the seats were sold at the auction last fall -- so, we have been looking forward to this for months).
I didn't take pictures, but you can see many of the dishes at Lannae's writeup of one of the tasting/testing dinners. What I remember sampling:
* the pickles (including turnips and grapes)
* gazpacho
* cantaloupe wrapped with prosciutto
* tomato-mozarella kebabs
* ETA: cheese board (I ignored this in favor of the fruits and veg)
* watermelon agua fresca (I think). The beverage offerings also included Yazoo beer and some other local brews, but the wine was enough for me.
* brisket
* bread w/butter
* pasta with Benton's bacon bits and veggies
* a very elegantly arranged ratatouille
* cucumber salad
* berry-crumb bars
* three variations of basil-lemon ice cream, garnished with sugared mint. The base for the ice cream is the recipe for Jeni's, which Lannae and her man still blame me and Tanya for getting them hooked on.
(Plus, the company was excellent. The conversations included church stuff and caregiving, working on films and houses, traveling to India and France and Belgium, skydiving and triathlons and soccer matches...)
* If you're at the Tomato Fest this weekend, you might want to check out Pickle Me This at Booth 105. Yummy stuff (...and, fwiw, Sarah Wilson sez eating fermented stuff is good both for your immune system and for kicking sugar cravings)
* The cabernet sauvignon by Beachaven (Clarksville) is darn nice. (The zin, though, is too sweet for most people's tastes.) And if you're into jazz, they have a lawn concert series going on
I got to sample both the pickles and the wine at a dinner this past Saturday night hosted by my friends Tanya and Lannae and their families. The theme of the dinner was locally produced foods, and it was a fundraiser for my church (i.e., the seats were sold at the auction last fall -- so, we have been looking forward to this for months).
I didn't take pictures, but you can see many of the dishes at Lannae's writeup of one of the tasting/testing dinners. What I remember sampling:
* the pickles (including turnips and grapes)
* gazpacho
* cantaloupe wrapped with prosciutto
* tomato-mozarella kebabs
* ETA: cheese board (I ignored this in favor of the fruits and veg)
* watermelon agua fresca (I think). The beverage offerings also included Yazoo beer and some other local brews, but the wine was enough for me.
* brisket
* bread w/butter
* pasta with Benton's bacon bits and veggies
* a very elegantly arranged ratatouille
* cucumber salad
* berry-crumb bars
* three variations of basil-lemon ice cream, garnished with sugared mint. The base for the ice cream is the recipe for Jeni's, which Lannae and her man still blame me and Tanya for getting them hooked on.
(Plus, the company was excellent. The conversations included church stuff and caregiving, working on films and houses, traveling to India and France and Belgium, skydiving and triathlons and soccer matches...)
