A Food, Spirits & Wine Blog

I like Greek food whenever I eat it, but I seldom make Greek dishes at home – there are too many cuisines I like better out there. All that said, I do eat Mediterranean food occasionally and I took inspiration from two recent recipes I had made and mashed them together to create a healthy and tasty vegetarian meal – Greek veggie gyros with yogurt sauce! If I had to rank order Laurie’s and my favorite cuisines, the ones at the top would be Italian, Mexican, Spanish, American,

Ready for more Sarasota-area restaurant reviews? Then this post is for you – part 2 of my spring restaurant review series! In this week’s post I’ll review two new Japanese sushi restaurants, an old school waterside fish house, a Latin bistro in a strip mall, a “kind of pop up” restaurant at Waterside in Lakewood Ranch, and a quick revisit and update of a small family-owned Italian restaurant. Zoto Zoto restaurant, pork katsudon, and the lobster roll Laurie and I have really c

In this two-part spring edition of my restaurant review series, I have an eclectic mix of offerings for you! They include reviews of three new restaurants, an ice cream shop, a bourbon distillery/restaurant, an upscale bistro, an old school waterside fish house, a Latin bistro in a strip mall, a chain restaurant with over 670 restaurants nationwide, and a revisit and update of a small family-owned Italian restaurant. How’s that for variety? Let’s get started!! enRich Bistro  

Once every week or so Laurie and I troll our pantry and refrigerator for leftovers that we can turn into a meal for two. This week we discovered we had (almost) all the fixings for a homemade pork stir fry, so we made a quick trip to the grocery store to buy our missing item and created a delicious dinner – for $2 a serving! Here’s how we did it! Laurie and I used to throw away a lot of food that had gone bad because we didn’t get around to eating it. Spoiled fruits and veget

Santa was very good to me this past Christmas. It’s hard to pick my favorite gift, but if forced to do so, I’d have to choose the vertical wine tasting kit that Laurie got me, along with a full bottle of the same wine from Daou Vineyards. Here’s a quick recap of my tasting of these beautiful wines! There are many different ways to taste wines, but one of my favorite options is to conduct what’s known as a vertical tasting. These tastings include samples of the same wine from