Three Red Matches

[Innkeeper]

1998 Balnaves, Coonawarra, The Blend ($15) (just about equal merlot, cabernets sauvignon and franc): Grillpanned porterhouse steak w/sauteed mushrooms, baked potato, and green beans almondine.

1998 Le Coste, Rosso di Montalcino ($17): Penne in rich tomato sauce with sweet Italian sausage with fennel, and salad.

1998 Pindar, North Fork of Long Island, Cabernet Franc ($12): Leftover roast goose in gravy, freshly baked baguette, and salad.

All wines and matches highly recommended.

[mrdutton]

You didn't include the recipes for the meals........

The matches sound like they are about perfect!

[Innkeeper]

As my old trigonometry teacher used to say, the recipes are "intuitively obvious." Will editorialize on one though. Have posted my Italian tomato sauce before, but have made an important new discovery. Always thought, incorrectly, that whatever came out of a can was all the same. Wrong! Picked up the ingregients for the tomato sauce in our local supermarket size Belfast Coop Store, for no reason other than I knew I could get good garlic and parsley there. So I ended up with Muir Glen Organic tomato products. Wow! They elevated the sauce to a whole new level.

ITALIAN TOMATO SAUCE:

2 tbl Olive oil
1 lg Vidallia type onion chopped
1-3 cloves Garlic minced
1 tbl Parsley chopped
1 1 lb 12oz can Muir Glen Organic Crushed Tomatoes with Basil
1 6oz can Muir Glen Organic Tomato Paste
½ cup Red wine
1 tsp Lawry seasoned salt/no-salt
1/2 tsp Black pepper
1/2 tsp Sugar or pkt of Stevia or other substitute
1/4 tsp Granulated garlic (garlic powder)
1 Bay leaf
1/2 tsp Dried (1/2 tbl fresh) thyme
1 tsp Dried (1 tbl fresh) basil

Nuke onion in oil. Put in Dutch Oven (large saucepan) with all other ingredients. Bring to boil stirring, reduce to simmer, and simmer 30 minutes, stirring regularly.




[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 01-06-2002).]

[winedope]

IK- have you tried canned San Marzano tomato products ? I haven't seen your recipe before. WD

[Innkeeper]

Yup, these are much better.

[barnesy]

I agree with IK.

I love those Muir Glen organics.

Barnesy

[Drew]

http://www.muirglen.com/

Nice web site also. They have a search engine identifying stores that carry their products by zip code.

Drew

[winedope]

thanks for the info, Drew. Will check them out. WD

[Drew]

Found some Muir Glen tomato sauce at our local Giant food store and the sauce was great! Thanks IK for the 1 up!

Drew

[This message has been edited by Drew (edited 01-20-2002).]