Ginger Lime Sauce with . . . Anything!

There’s hot chiles and corn meal from Mexico which pop up in everything from side dishes to main meals. Marinara sauce from Italy is layered on pasta, pizza, and grilled chicken, not always in the right proportions or preparations, but it’s ubiquitous. There’s hot-and-sour this and hot-and-sour that, and there’s cream sauce, which might properly [...]

Chicken Tarragon with Unoaked Chardonnay

Chicken can take on so many personalities, depending on the preparation and what’s on the plate next to it. Roasted chicken is not like blackened chicken, and neither are like dishes served with cream sauce, marinara, or an artichoke lemon preparation. It’s no wonder we often hear “it tastes like chicken” when someone wants to [...]

Sartori 2009 Ferdi with Vietnamese Caramel Chicken

Garganega is not a grape you read very much about. Yes, it produces a white wine, and yes, it’s Italian, but no, its name doesn’t appear on the label very often. If you searched the term “Garganega” on any of the major wine sites, you’d get a few hits, but not like the data dump [...]

Grilled Chicken and Chardonnay

Whilst grilling chicken in the heat of summer, we all need a cool glass of something to keep us from broiling along with dinner.  As Julia Child famously said, “I love to cook with wine.  Sometimes I even put it in the dish!” So chilled wines are de rigueur for the Master Griller. The slight [...]

Dino Dictates: Abbazia di Novacella Kerner and Lagrein

In 2005, Dean Gold opened Dino in Washington, D.C., presenting Venetian and Tuscan fare. Voted the No. 1 Italian, No. 2 Best Value and No. 3 Best Restaurant in a 2009 Washingtonian readers’ poll, it’s a restaurant that looks to the obscure with its 300 different wines. Gold’s suggestion for the Weekly Wine Pick includes [...]