The French kitchen is renown for all it's great food and techniques used in cooking today. Red wine sauce is one of my favorites, and is perfect if you have leftover red wine. The basic recipe is fairly simple and you can modify it to your liking by adding ingredients. Cooking is not about exact amounts of ingredients.  It's about tasting and adding what you feel is missing. It's more of an art than chemistry to me, unless you are baking or making desserts. The list below is just an estimation. The...

During the sultry August of 1964, many Americans sampled this Spanish drink for the first time at the New York World's Fair. A mixture of chilled wine and fruit, was an instant hit. Prosecco  is an Italian white wine. Prosecco DOC can be spumante ("sparkling wine"), frizzante ("semi-sparkling wine"), or tranquillo ("still wine"), depending on the perlage. It is made from Glera grapes, formerly known also as Prosecco, but other grape varieties may be included. On the other hand, Sangria is an alcoholic beverage of Spanish origin. A punch, the sangria...

Wine and fruit — what’s not to love? Red, white, pink, or sparkling, any bottle of wine can be made into a fruity, fun drink that’ll refresh you on the hottest of days. Sweetened with juice, spiked with booze, and decorated with fruit, this drink is just one more reason to be thankful for the long evenings of summer ahead. A pitcher of sangria made with white wine, fruit, and liqueur will get the party started. Here's a summer fruit sangria recipe that you can easily do at home. Enjoy!...

Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from grapes; and depending on your definition of "made from grapes" there are at least two independent inventions of wine. The oldest known possible evidence for the use of grapes as part of a wine recipe with fermented rice and honey was in China, about 9,000 years ago. Two thousand years later, the seeds of what became the European wine-making tradition began in western Asia.   8000 B.C. - Residues on pottery sherds from the Chinese early Neolithis site of Jiahu have been recognized as coming from a fermented beverage made of...

An infamously meticulous craft, the production of high quality wine is dependent on a number of factors as it makes its way from vine to bottle. In the vineyard, however, climate in particular is highly influential, holding the power to make or break the style, quality and flavor of the grapes. So now, with the effects of climate change knocking on our door sooner and with more intensity than expected, the question must be asked; how will this influence the wine we produce? It has been noted at many wineries...

Lemon Marinated shrimp with spinach, cucumber, apple,cauliflower cream, trout roe and croutons. 4 servings Shrimp Salad 7 ounces shrimps 2.5 ounces cucumber 1 small apple 0.7 ounces spinach leaves 3 tablespoons lemon juice 3 tablespoons olive oil salt Cauliflower Cream 10 ounces cauliflower without stem 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/2 cup milk salt Sides ½ cup croutons 1.5 ounce trout roe Instructions: Cut the cauliflower into small pieces and boil it in the milk and cream, until soft. Blend smooth, season with salt and cool.Peel the apple and cucumber and dice into 1/4" pieces. Rinse the spinach...