Well the day has come. Finally got myself (and a friend) to do the dinner blog. I am very into cooking but I never really wanted to put the effort into capturing the whole experience (with photos and select wines and such), but I finally did it. So here it is: (bear with me through the random photos and drunken day I have had preparing food and drinking all afternoon).
It all started when I woke up chugged water and made my way to D2 brunch. As I was guzzling down 6+ plates of D2 it all hit me, I wanted to avoid doing actual homework and just drink wine all day long. So.. yes, that's what i did. (sorry if i have grammatical errors or if my sentences blow, I am on a crunch time of midnight (which really really should be more like 2am.. what college student has time to finish everything by midnight)).
So after D2 it was off to Gucci Kroger (i wanted a bigger selection of wine that was also hopefully on sale). After being in Kroger for 30 seconds and buying flowers for no good reason, I knew it was going to be an interesting (and very expensive) Kroger trip.
My friend I decided to go all out on this dinner. We started off with an appetizer of roasted red pepper hummus with pita chips and Bagel crisps.
We got a white Chardonnay to go with our app. When I first opened the wine, the smell stuck out right away... ew.. My friend brought this wine and I didn't want to be rude and tell her that I hated it (since she really liked the wine) but ew.. It was blah. The smell really threw off my taste and with the sweetness and a horrible after taste that followed... not my favorite. But what totally blew my mind was how fu**in good the wine ended up turning out to be when it was paired with the appetizer. I have NO IDEA what happened but the wine suddenly became so much more appetizing. I would say that it moved up over 30 points in my book (not that I have any idea how to rate wine in the slightest bit). It just really complemented the Parmesan pita chips and the hummus.
After the appetizer I started to prepare dinner (and yes I did EVERYTHING. You would think the female would prepare dinner but nah.. times have changed)
Yep, I know, looking delicious. That's 3 zucchini, asparagus, sirloin steak, tons of onions and garlic, and to top it all off, shrimp (I'm mildly alergic to shrimp, but I love it so much, just pop a benadryl and keep chowing).
Grilled all of the food at the wonderful Edge grills.
and ba ba ba baaaaa:
Yes, yes I know. I'm impressed with myself. The meal was delicious. Now what the blog is truly about. We had a Merlot that went perfectly with the steak. It was delicious. I wish that I would have spent more than $2.99 on the bottle of wine because the meal definitely deserved it! But even for being a cheap bottle, it went really well with the meal. I loved it with the blue cheese. It also had a very full flavor and really brought out the meaty red delicious goodness of the steak as well as the garlic aroma of vegetables and shit. I ate every single bite like the fatass I'm proud to be.
Then after a long hour plus of being unconscious on the couch thinking that my stomach is going to explode, we moved on to desert.
Some nice ice cream sandwiches and Pinot Noir. This wine was a gift from my friend's friend and it was delicious! Correction : it IS delicious, as I am currently still drinking it now. My friend has already tapped out and let me finish off the bottle. It has been one of my favorite bottles that I have had for this wine class and it really made me happy. I need to stop buying bottles for under $5 and actually grow a sack and buy some nice wine, because this wine truly shows why paying more is definitely worth it. I don't know if ice cream is just great but this wine went perfectly with it. It really brought out the rich creamy chocolate factor of the ice cream. Loved the wine, loved the dinner blog, loved everything about it. Had a great time and drank more than I should have.. great day. Night.
