Prejudices in Stemware

I’m not sure if this is a London thing or not, but I have never witnessed it anywhere else. It is a maddening thing, and in my opinion completely unnecessary. What I am talking about is the wine glass class system.
Of course living in the UK one of the things you come to [...]

I HEART Squid & Chorizo

I have learned many things here in jolly old England, and one of them is that I LOVE squid.  In my Canadian youth squid did not exist, the closest I came to the heavenly squid was defried calamari, which was very much like chewing on battered bits of rubber.  I have been converted 100%, and [...]

Cheers To Alone Time

I love people and I have fun with them all the time, but I must say being alone can be so great! Tonight all by my lonesome, I went for a run, cooked up some spaghetti bolognese and, enjoyed it with a beautiful glass of 2004 Pallazo della Torre, by Allegrini. This is [...]

Envy on my lunch break

Lunch today was pretty standard, you know a ham cheese sandwich nothing fancy, but just fine. The only trouble is, I know at this moment my boyfriend and a good friend of ours are sitting in Racine sipping on Champagne(I know this cause I was nice enough to call up and buy them a [...]

My first post

I have never blogged before, but I have been wanting to take a stab at it for a long time.  The theme of my blog is going to be food & wine, which are 2 of my favourite things in life.  I look forward to where this blog may lead, I hope I have enough [...]