Saturday Night Dinners

Oddly enough, this is one of the few weekends that Fay and I have not gotten together and cooked up a storm.  Her future in-laws are in town, and I had a date (woot! woot!).  I think it only fitting that I dedicate a post to Saturday Night Dinner.

What is a Saturday Night Dinner, you might be asking?  Let me illuminate those in the dark.  SND is a special time to celebrate not working and enjoying all the the true joys of life: friendship, wine, and good food.  Boy oh boy do we do some friending, drinking and eating.  Here's a sampling of our dishes:  Beef Bourguignon, Sicilian Tuna, Seared Sea Scallops in balsamic and white wine, Strawberry, arugula bruschetta, grilled Goat cheese, pear, prosciutto, That awesome soup Fay made.  I'll have to add more details about the menus later.

I joined the Wall Street Journal (hoody hoody hoody snooty) Wine Club and received a crate of wine with different selections--about four times, I think.  That started us on a trajectory of wine speak, which ultimately lead to our future NPR show: "Talk to Me Vino."  It's sort of a take off of Car Talk, but instead we're going to be a couple of chumps talking wine.  Some of our favorite wine descriptions: slippery, faded denim, burned Fiat car tires, cat pee, wet mop, steam off of hot rocks (sauna), etc.  We have also  been clued in on the idea of describing the wine in terms of what color it makes you think of when it's in your mouth.  I thought that was cool.  One was green light through crystal chandelier.