Food Talk
Chefs, restauranteurs and foodies dish on their favorite recipes, local produce, unique preparations and perfect pairings.
- VinSentio Food & Wine Pairing - Grilled Whole Beef Tenderloin with Balsamic-Glazed Shallots and Stilton
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This time of year, when the weather shifts back and forth from near balmy to frosty, it can be challenging to create a seasonal menu. Holiday festivities are long gone and the winter chill seems to linger on forever ... the luscious roasted squash and Read More...
- Two Days of Wine and Tacos in the Yakima Valley
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Why aren't you going to Walla Walla?" That was the reply of my wine-geek friends when I asked them for recommendations on my upcoming wine-tasting tour of the Yakima Valley. True, Walla Walla has more wineries--and more 90-point scores--per capita Read More...
- Wine Country's Restaurant Scene - The Restaurant at Desert Wind
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Get a Taste of the Destination Chef Gene Soto of The Restaurant at Desert Wind After a seven year stint with Deschutes Brewery in Oregon, Chef Gene Soto has joined Desert Wind Winery as Executive Chef, a return to his Eastern Washington roots. Gene was Read More...
- Wine Country's Restaurant Scene - The Whitehouse Crawford Restaurant of Walla Walla
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The downtown Walla Walla restaurant of Whitehouse Crawford opened its doors in May of 2000 in a historical building that was once a lumber-planing mill and furniture factory in the early 1900's. Destined to be demolished by the City of Walla Walla, Read More...
- So, you say you've never seen food talk?
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Join the club, we haven't either. However, we hope we can share a few insights into our experiences with food...and there are quite a few of those! We should introduce ourselves just a bit. "Hi...I am Krista McCorkle Davis...currently I am a Read More...
- Gobble, Gobble, Gobble...
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From Mrs Davis-- Turkey Day approaches...which means everyone is about to buy the requisite 18-22# bird and wrestle it into a foil roasting pan filled with the famous family stuffing--so handy that the recipe keeps getting reprinted every year on the Read More...
- Wine Country's Restaurant Scene - Shakti's Restaurant of Wenatchee
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After asking around we discovered that Shakti's is the restaurant of choice of both Wenatchee locals and visitors. Voted favorite downtown restaurant in Wenatchee and having received three stars from Best Places Northwest , Shatki's offers flavors Read More...
- Pairing Inspiration: A "Red" for this beautiful winter salad?
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Welcome to our first community Wine Pairing post. We hope this becomes a place where people can touch each other by sharing their personal "likes" or thoughts on wines they believe could be fun to serve with a food, recipe, or product that we Read More...
- Wine Country's Restaurant Scene - Garcia's Drive Thru of Grandview Offers Tex-Mex
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Ask most locals and they all have their favorite Mexican food joint or local taco stand that they swear makes the best tacos you'll ever have. Both Kelly Hightower of Hightower Cellars and Dave Minnick of Willow Crest Winery rave about Garcia's Read More...
- Recipe Notebook- Cherry Blue Salad, Kay Simon, Chinook Wines
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Summer Recipe Cherry Bleu Salad from Kay Simon, Winemaker, Chinook Wines Ingredients: 4 1/2 - 5 C torn Radicchio lettuce 4 C torn Butter lettuce (about 1/4 head untrimmed) 1 small red onion (thinly sliced) 4 oz. crumbled Gorgonzola cheese Marinated Chukar Read More...
- Wine Country's Restaurant Scene - Gasperetti's Lounge of Yakima
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Yakima's primo dining hot-spot recently opened a new cosmopolitan lounge. Having opened in January just in time for Gasperetti's 38th Year Anniversary of business, the lounge has its own entrance but remains a part of the main restaurant. It's Read More...
- Wine Country's Restaurant Scene - Creektown Cafe of Walla Walla
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Creektown Cafe is in its third year of business in the Walla Walla Valley. Owners Bill Pancake and Tom Uberuaga wanted to create a small, comfortable restaurant that focuses on the bounty of the Valley; coupling regional Northwest cuisine with the superb Read More...
- Wine Country's Restaurant Scene- Essencia Artisan Bakery and Chocolaterie of Yakima
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Essencia Artisan Bakery and Chocolaterie is a unique bakery and cafe in historic downtown Yakima. The warm colors and open kitchen are an inviting backdrop for the wide range of breads, pastries, desserts and delicious drinks. Breads are baked in the Read More...