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By Kate Leahy
[FROM BOOKLADY COOKS] This was one our our finds at the Tucson Book Festival and it is a favorite when we want to explore food and wine pairings. We are also learning a lot about different wines and what makes them unique. Our featured recipe is:
Chilled Smoked Salmon Spaghetti with Capers and Avocado. A tribute to the chefs at Terra Restaurant - a Napa Valley favorite for decades. Leahy's recipe calls for everything to be chilled and for cold-smoked salmon, but we made it a little warmer than room temperature and used some spectacular hot-smoked salmon we picked up on our cruise to Alaska.
Reviewer's note - this is not a "tested" recipe. Just some notes about what we think we did while cooking dinner!
We sautéed 4 thinly sliced green onions in 3 T. olive oil. Then added 4 t. capers to the pan. Just give them a brief minute in the hot oil, then transfer to a jar. Add 2 t. lemon juice, 2 t. soy sauce, and 2 t. rice wine vinegar. Cook 4 ounces spaghetti (for a 2 person dinner) and put the hot, drained spaghetti in a bowl. Add 1/2 of a small avocado, diced and 6 ounces hot-smoked salmon. Top with the dressing, sprinkle with parsley and serve with a lemon wedge and a lovely sparkly wine like this Cap Fizz from Oregon, a really lovely semi-dry pink sparkly wine.
We loved it!
[FROM THE PUBLISHER] Discover your new favorite wines with this fun read covering the essential varieties wine lovers need to know, featuring more than 40 simple and delicious recipes for perfect pairings.
Wine Style is the modern, casual guide to finding which wines you love and what foods to pair them with. There are no rules here (especially none of the old-fashioned ones, like "seafood should always be paired with white wine"). Instead, this book is all about helping you explore new terrain in approachable ways. So whether you're looking to find an affordable new mainstay bottle for weeknight dinners, incorporate dessert wines into your routine, or learn how orange wine is made, Wine Style has you covered. And what could be a more delicious and fun way to explore different grapes than by cooking complementary snacks and dishes to go with them? You're bound to find new favorites--in foods and wines alike--with winning combinations such as baked lemony feta with crisp white wine, cabbage and onion galette with a bold red, harissa-deviled eggs with sparkling wine, and so much more.
Discover new wines alongside incredible--and incredibly easy--recipes. With its modern approach to food and drink, Wine Style injects some much-needed fun into the world of wine tasting.
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