Hello and Welcome to Food & Wino. I'm Dean and I'd be the foodie and the wino! The truth of the matter is that I spend an enormous amount of my time thinking about food (and wine too!). Don't get me wrong, because I'm not complaining or lamenting the fact. It's more along the lines of making a confession. I admit it. My mental landscape is dominated by visions of yummy chow and tasty wine. What could I do with those? I wonder if I poached these if they would go with that? Why does a good bottle of Burgundy have to cost so much cashola? What am I going to do when people catch on to my preferred cheap wine and it becomes hard to find or suddenly expensive? (This has happened frequently, so I consider these thoughts more apocalyptic than paranoid!)
This being the New Year and the depths of Winter, I was naturally delighted today to receive my first seed catalog. Todays arrival from Johnny's Selected Seeds (online at www.johnnyseeds.com) couldn't have made me happier. It's their 35th Anniversary catalog and is chock full of great stuff I wish I had the dirt to grow. I always take the post Holiday arrival of the seed catalogs as some sort of pagan sign of hope. Just the pictures of the ripe fruit and vegetables along with their fact filled descriptions and apparent ease to grow offer hope of a different season more full of light and bounty. Through enough experience, I KNOW that producing vegetables that look as tasty as those in the catalog takes more than just putting a seed into the ground. It takes hard work and a kind eye from Mother Nature herself. Get yourself some seed catalogs. They make great reading while you do some fertilizing of your own. I need to look into finding a community garden plot here in Houston. Keeping my hands in the dirt helps keep me out of the mischief (and the bottles of wine!)
More Soon....
Merry Happy HannaChrisQwaNewYear!!
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Good on ya for getting it out there, Deano. And, remember to send me that blondie recipe. While I ignore most of your e-mails, I tend to print any relating to baked goods. Hugs and kisses...
Good blog there Dino...always welcome any healthy diet recipes you might have for us "weight challenged" folk! LOL ~Hugz!
You Betcha Valerie. I'll see about publishing some easy, yummy, "diet" recipes. Remember, the best way to lose weight is to move more and eat less.
Do you have any good BBQ rib recipes? I am looking for one that could be married to me.
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