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This time of year, when the weather shifts back and forth from near balmy to frosty, it can be challenging to create a seasonal menu. Holiday festivities are long gone and the winter chill seems to linger on forever ... the luscious roasted squash and slow-simmered soups that you found soothing and heart-warming in February have lost their ...

Why aren't you going to Walla Walla?" That was the reply of my wine-geek friends when I asked them for recommendations on my upcoming wine-tasting tour of the Yakima Valley. True, Walla Walla has more wineries--and more 90-point scores--per capita than Yakima. But Yakima is home to a third of Washington state's vineyards, and ...

Get a Taste of the Destination Chef Gene Soto of The Restaurant at Desert Wind After a seven year stint with Deschutes Brewery in Oregon, Chef Gene Soto has joined Desert Wind Winery as Executive Chef, a return to his Eastern Washington roots. Gene was Born and raised in Sunnyside Washington and graduated from Sunnyside High School in 1991. In ...

The downtown Walla Walla restaurant of Whitehouse Crawford opened its doors in May of 2000 in a historical building that was once a lumber-planing mill and furniture factory in the early 1900's. Destined to be demolished by the City of Walla Walla, owners Carl and Sonia Schmitt acquired the building in the late 90's and began a makeover. ...

Join the club, we haven't either. However, we hope we can share a few insights into our experiences with food...and there are quite a few of those!  We should introduce ourselves just a bit. "Hi...I am Krista McCorkle Davis...currently I am a fulltime mom with a 1year old--Miss Lucienne Marie Davis, (AKA Luci)--that has ...

From Mrs Davis--Turkey Day approaches...which means everyone is about to buy the requisite 18-22# bird and wrestle it into a foil roasting pan filled with the famous family stuffing--so handy that the recipe keeps getting reprinted every year on the back of the box--and end up with a moist, juicy bird that arrives perfectly cooked at exactly ...

After asking around we discovered that Shakti's is the restaurant of choice of both Wenatchee locals and visitors. Voted favorite downtown restaurant in Wenatchee and having received three stars from Best Places Northwest, Shatki's offers flavors of fine dining in Washington Wine Country. Owners Shakti Lanphere and Renee Mack tout ...

Welcome to our first community Wine Pairing post. We hope this becomes a place where people can touch each other by sharing their personal "likes" or thoughts on wines they believe could be fun to serve with a food, recipe, or product that we introduce in this blog. I wanted to start off with a delightful fall salad I tasted at my ...

Ask most locals and they all have their favorite Mexican food joint or local taco stand that they swear makes the best tacos you'll ever have. Both Kelly Hightower of Hightower Cellars and Dave Minnick of Willow Crest Winery rave about Garcia's Drive Thru in Grandview. This little taco house specializes in Tex-Mex favorites like ...

Summer Recipe Cherry Bleu Salad from Kay Simon, Winemaker, Chinook Wines Ingredients: 4 1/2 - 5 C torn Radicchio lettuce 4 C torn Butter lettuce (about 1/4 head untrimmed) 1 small red onion (thinly sliced) 4 oz. crumbled Gorgonzola cheese Marinated Chukar cherries (see below) Dressing: Equal parts Raspberry Vinegar (Kay recommends Perseus) and ...