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Showing posts with label Cook with Style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cook with Style. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Boil or Bake Your Eggs?...

Boil or Bake Your Eggs...
That is the question :)
 I was curious to see if there was any difference between boil vs. bake. 
Since I needed to make some deviled eggs...I thought I would try both ways! 
 The Baked Eggs:
Preheat the oven to 325-350 degrees
Place your eggs into a muffin tin to bake.
**My oven runs hot...so I went with 325 degrees.
Bake for 30 minutes
 A strange sight...so use to having a pot boiling!
 IF You SEE SPOTS, BROWN SPOTS....on your Eggs...IT'S OKAY!
They don't mean a thing...No Worries!
After 30 minutes, remove from the oven.....
**On a side note;...It was kinda nice to not worry about a boiling pot on the stove. YES, the baked eggs take 10 minutes longer....But ,NO boiling water to contend with afterwards!
Just set the timer and dust something or check your email. Whatever works! :)) 
As with the boiled eggs, follow with an ice bath to stop the eggs from cooking. Use your tongs to remove the eggs from the muffin tin and into the ice bath. Let soak 5-10 minutes
 The baked are in the white dish, boiled in the red.
They look the same. 
 The ice bath: Pan=boiled, bowl=baked
 I peel my eggs under water...the peels slid off both sets of eggs...
 
The egg on the left: baked, egg on the right: boiled.
I saw no difference. Both looked good!
AND....No difference in the taste! A win-win!!!
I kinda like the baking option! I will do them this way again.
See the Kitchen tip below....
 I saw this idea on Pinterest.
 Pour your salt into a canning jar, then...
 Cut the top of cardboard salt container, leaving the spout in tack...
*I measured the salt top to the canning lid. 
Place the newly cut salt lid inside the can's ring. Screw the top on the jar...
Now you have an easy pour spout/container for your kitchen.
This container is handy for all kinds of dry kitchen staples. Flour, Sugar, spices...So handy having a (pour) spout available! 
Write your ingredient's name on the lid. Easy Peasy!
Keep YOUR Kitchen in Style...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

New Clairvaux Vineyard's Red Table Wine...

We Love New Clairvaux Vineyard!
 All of their wines are wonderful. We have served many of their wines, often. 
I love to cook with their wine too!
 Below is a little information on the Vina Ranch, Red Table Wine.
If you are ever in the area, stop by and visit, their tasting room is lovely.
You won't be disappointed.
Find their website listed below. 
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*Taken from the label of the Vina Ranch, Red Table Wine.
 They describe it best! 
Vina Ranch
Red Table Wine
Vina, Tehama County, California
Trappist Made Product
Quote:
THE ABBEY OF NEW CLAIRVAUX IS THE FIRST CISTERCIAN MONASTERY IN THE AMERICAS TO GROW, VINIFY AND BOTTLE THEIR OWN WINE. OUR MONASTIC AND VITICULTURAL TRADITION REACHES BACK TO THE RENOWNED CISTERCIAN VINEYARDS, CLOS DE VOUGEOT IN BURGUNDY AND KLOSTER EBERBACH IN THE RHEINGAU BEGINNING IN THE 12TH CENTURY.


LOCATED AT THE APEX OF CALIFORNIA'S GREAT NORTH VALLEY, VINA'S RARE SOILS WERE FIRST CULTIVATED BY PIONEER VINTNER PETER LASSEN AS EARLY AS 1846. LELAND STANFORD TRANSFORMED THESE MODEST BEGINNINGS INTO THE GREAT VINA WINERY WHICH, IN 1890, WAS REPUTEDLY THE LARGEST WINEMAKING VENTURE IN THE WORLD.


THE DEDICATED LABOR OF THE ABBEY'S TRAPPIST MONKS IN THEIR VINEYARDS AND THE SKILLED HANDS OF A FIFTH GENERATION CALIFORNIA WINEMAKER BRING TOGETHER THE TRADITIONS OF EUROPEAN GRAPE GROWING AND WINEMAKING. YOU HOLD IN YOUR HANDS THE FRUIT OF OUR EFFORTS.
FR. PAUL MARK SCHWAN            AIMEE' SUNSERI
ABBOT                                                       WINEMAKER

PRODUCED AND BOTTLED BY SUNSERI WINE COMPANY, AND NEW CLAIRVAUX ABBEY, VINA, CALIFORNIA
Please visit their website and facebook page for list of all their products and current information;
www.newclairvauxvineyard.com


Serving Wine with Stylish Taste...Enjoy,
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