To say I have been busy recently would be a huge understatement – I’ve been so busy I haven’t posted here in months!
I’m currently on a hiatus from wine school classes. My most recent course, Food and Wine Matching, had its last class on Tuesday night. I’m also sad to report that I had to miss the last class – I blame it on the automotive industry – but apparently our project went over well. The culminating activity for this short class is to choose a dish, cook it and pair it with a wine. Then, on the last night, the food and wine will be judged and a paper will be handed in.
The marking of the project is apparently based on the paper – not on the cooking, or on the wine – and the paper has to include comments on the wine’s structure, flavour profiles, etc and how it pairs up with the food that was served.
We cooked a chicken crepe with cream sauce and chicken & mushroom risotto. My group’s plan was to include one riesling, for the sake of completeness – as riesling is always a great match with food – but to try as many wines as possible with the goal of picking another wine to pair.
Unfortunately, the riesling was the best match. I don’t even know why we tried to find something else. We should have just gone with the riesling and avoided the hangover that came from trying seven different wines in one night. Oops.
