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WINE IDEAS: Wine Ideas | Weddings | Drink Recipes | Cooking With Wine | Food & Wine Pairings

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Cooking With Wine

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Abby's Chicken Rollatini

Much like Chicken Saltimbocca, this is chicken smothered in parmesan cheese and rolled with mozzarella and prosciutto and baked in white wine. Prep Time: 15 Min Cook Time: 30 Min Ready In: 45 Min Servings: 4

Baked Fish Fillets With White Wine
Featuring Selection Estate Sonoma Dry Creek Valley Chardonnay

Baked Ham With Wine And Veggies
Featuring Selection International South African Chenin Blanc

Beef Au Vin
Featuring Selection International French Merlot

This classic varietal is rich with ripe fruit and berry flavours, yet soft and elegant. Dry, full-bodied and deeply coloured, with a complex velvety taste accentuated with premium French oak.

Beef Casserole With Red Wine
Featuring Selection Estate Washington Cabernet Franc Merlot

The nose of this wine holds an intense aroma of plum, black cherries and vanilla with an underlying hint of pepper and spice. Fruit flavours of plum and currants blended with the silky-smooth taste of chocolate and firm tannins give this medium-full bodied wine a pleasant finish, leaving you wanting more.

Beef Stroganoff

Beef Stroganoff is an age-old recipe that is favored around the world.

Beef Tenderloin With Roasted Shallots
Featuring Port

The shallot sauce takes some time, but is well worth the trouble. This is definitely a company dish, and the recipe doubles well for a larger party. Serve with a green salad and roasted vegetables. Prep Time: 15 Min Cook Time: 1 Hr 30 Min Ready In: 1 Hr 45 Min Servings: 6

Bonapart Fondue
Featuring Selection International Italian Pinot Grigio

Servings: 4 Preparation: 15 Minutes Cooking: 5 Minutes

Broccoli Salmon Risotto

Servings: 4 to 6 Prep: 40 minutes Cooking: 30 Minutes

Bubbly Pear Cupcakes
Featuring NEW MILLENNIUM SPARKLING WINE

Thought a glass of bubbly was reserved just for sipping? Not so. Baking with sparkling wine or champagne is a delicious way to enjoy it as well. These cupcakes are fabulous and will be a hit at any celebration.

Cheese Fondue
Featuring Riesling or Sauvignon Blanc

According to the ultimate hostess, Martha Stewart, there are a few rules to follow at any fondue party: Rule 1: If a woman drops her bread in the fondue pot, she has to kiss every man at the table. Rule 2: If a man drops his bread in the fondue pot, he has to buy a bottle of wine for everyone at the table. Rule 3: If someone drops two pieces of bread in the pot, they have to plan the next fondue party. Martha's Tip: Make sure you invite men you want to kiss to your fondue party.

Chicken Cacciatore
Featuring South African Chenin Blanc

Chicken Caccitore is a popular Italian dish. Cacciatore in Italian translates to "hunter" so this meal was often prepared for husbands after a long day of hunting. It is a simple but delicious recipe utilizing ingredients that are commonly found in most pantries.

Chicken Marbella
Featuring GERMAN MOSEL VALLEY GEWÜRZTRAMINER

Chipotle and Red Wine BBQ Sauce

The weather is warming and the smell of BBQ is in the air. There are a number of good BBQ sauces on the market but nothing quite beats making your own. This smoky chipotle red wine bbq sauce is a fantastic accompaniment to any grilled meat.

Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake
Featuring Chocolate Raspberry Port

A great cheese cake to go with that Chocolate Raspberry Port

Cioppino
Featuring Selection Original Johannisberg Dry Riesling

A wonderful seafood stew! Serve with a loaf of warm, crusty bread for sopping up the delicious broth! Prep Time: 10 Min Cook Time: 45 Min Ready In: 55 Min Servings: 6

Crab with Stilton Cheese Appetizer

This is a very different yet wonderful way to serve crab. Prep Time: 15 Min Cook Time: 15 Min Ready In: 30 Min Servings: 8

Creamy Parmesan Risotto with Pinot Gris
Featuring Washington Yakima Valley Pinot Gris

The risotto is a truly impressive dish that is really a meal all on it's own. Risottos are wonderfully luxurious and utterly delicious. They do have a reputation of being difficult to make but with just a little attention and good ingredients, a perfect risotto is your to be had.

Filet Mignon With Red Wine Sauce
Featuring Crushendo Castellina Supertuscan di Siena

French Onion Soup
Featuring NEW ZEALAND MARLBOROUGH SAUVIGNON BLANC

Few things are greater than a bowl of French Onion Soup. With its bubbly melted cheese on crisp bread over a rich broth of chicken, beef and wine, onions sauteed at length to truly bring out their sweetness, the complexity of this soup is utterly delicious. Whether served before the main course or as the main course itself, french onion soup is a Winter dinner essential.

Homemade Fish Stock

Having some Fish Stock on hand is great for making sauces, soups and other dishes. A great seafood risotto is nothing with out the flavour of some Fish Stock. Adding wine to a Fish Stock recipe makes that stock even better. Here is a nice recipe showing how.

Irish Lamb Stew
Featuring SONOMA DRY CREEK VALLEY CHARDONNAY

There's nothing quite like a hearty, fragrant stew to warm your soul on a chilly Autumn eve. This slow-cooked, tender stew is sure to hit the spot.

Lover's Loaf

It doesn't sound very romantic, but this recipe is much fancier and delicious than your mother's meatloaf. Serve this meatloaf with mashed potatoes. The juice from the meatloaf will act as a gravy. Prep Time: 20 Min Cook Time: 1 Hr 15 Min Ready In: 1 Hr 35 Min Servings: 6

Meatloaf Cupcakes

Mussels Tagliatelle
Featuring SONOMA DRY CREEK VALLEY CHARDONNAY

Nutmeg Mushrooms
Featuring World Vineyard California Trinity White

Pasta with Brie, Mushrooms and Arugula

This is a super simple, extremely flavourful vegetarian pasta. A perfect dish for whipping together on a busy evening.

Pear Sorbet
Featuring Island Mist Kiwi-Pear Sauvignon Blanc

Pear, Parsnip and Celery Root Soup
Featuring WASHINGTON YAKIMA VALLEY PINOT GRIS

With the temperatures cooling off it's a perfect time to cook up an nice warming soup. This delicious soup utilizes the beauty of all that this lovely season has to offer.

Perfect Turkey

A perfectly seasoned and juicy turkey. Prep Time: 30 Min Cook Time: 4 Hrs Ready In: 17 Hrs Servings: 18lb Turkey

Port Poached Figs
Featuring Selection Spéciale Port

This is a lovely appetizer made even better when served along with prosciutto, gorgonzola and walnuts.

Red Wine and Thyme Mushrooms
Featuring Sonoma Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

A perfectly cooked roast is classic comfort food but it just may be the side dishes that accompany the meal that really do the trick. Mashed Potatoes, Yorkshire Pudding and Gravy are all delicious but for a real crowd pleaser, you may want to consider Red Wine and Thyme Mushrooms. The earthiness of the mushrooms cooked with butter and wine make for a fantastically rich and wonderful side dish that truly compliments the roast amazingly well.

Red Wine Braised Short Ribs
Featuring Selection Original Shiraz Zinfandel

Short ribs are a delicious cut of meat but they tend to be tough so they have to be cooked in liquid for a long period of time, otherwise known as braising. Braising breaks down the tough fibers of the meat resulting in a succulent tender rib.

Red Wine Gravy
Featuring SONOMA VALLEY PINOT NOIR

Serve this simple and delicious red wine gravy along with a succulent beef roast, tender rack of lamb or juicy roasted pork.

Red Wine Marinated Flank Steak
Featuring Sonoma Valley Pinot Noir

Flank steak is an excellent choice when looking to cook beef for a couple of reasons; It's very economical and extremely flavourful. The only thing to note when cooking flank steak is that it can be a tough cut of meat but that's where marinating comes into play. Marinating is used to break down some of the fibers of the meat and in order to achieve this, some sort of acidic base is required such as citrus juice, vinegar or wine. Marinating with wine imparts exceptional flavour and ensures a tender succulent outcome to this wonderful cut of meat.

Roast Turkey with White Wine and Rosemary
Featuring WASHINGTON YAKIMA VALLEY PINOT GRIS

Roasted Butternut Squash Risotto
Featuring CHILEAN SAUVIGNON BLANC

The first of this season's squash are here and it's time to take advantage of all the gorgeous varieties available. This creamy, rich, velvety risotto is a wonderful platform for the beautiful flavours of sweet, nutty butternut squash.

Salmon Poached in White Wine
Featuring Chilean Sauvignon Blanc

Poaching salmon is an excellent way of not only cooking salmon but any fish really. It is very easy to overcook fish when cooking in a manner of, say, pan frying or baking as fish dries out very easily. While it is possible to overcook fish in a poaching liquid, it is much more difficult to achieve and for this reason, poaching fish is a relatively fail safe, quick and delicious way of preparation.

Shrimp, Lobster And Crab In White Wine Sauce
Featuring Selection Original Sauvignon Blanc

Steely, grassy, and defiantly dry, nothing can complement a mean better than Sauvignon Blanc, a unique wine that offers a definitive counterpoint to the ubiquitous Chardonnay.

Sparkling Wine Raspberry Popsicles
Featuring NEW MILLENNIUM SPARKLING WINE

Popsicles aren't just for kids. Cool down and enjoy this adult twist on a favorite Summer treat in as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Spicy Edam Shrimp Quiche

Shrimp, Edam, and mushroom make this an elegant quiche. Use Red Hot Dutch Edam to give this a spicy kick, but if you can't find it, use regular Edam and spike it with red pepper flakes instead. Prep Time:20 Min Cook Time:1 Hr Ready In:1 Hr 30 Min Servings: 8

White Wine Basted Turkey
Featuring WASHINGTON YAKIMA VALLEY PINOT GRIS

Thanksgiving, Christmas, the holidays are upon us and chances are that means so is cooking a turkey. Take the stress off by using this process of a cheesecloth basted with white wine and butter to ensure a juicy succulent bird every time.

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