Budbreak has occurred in my backyard in Davis, CA. I look on with mixed feelings. This will be my baby Viognier's 4th leaf and I'm not sure I will be there with her when she fruits. We are possibly going to move this year and I don't think I will be able to transplant her successfully.
A look back at year 2: That was a lot of growth for April!
In the spirit of "Eat for Eight Bucks" on Serious Eats, I am going to start a new series here called "Cheap and Tasty". I'm going to take my freest of free days (Sunday) and cook for the week. Using affordable, healthy, and fresh ingredients, I will figure out how much a serving costs and use that as a basis for (maybe) discussing food culture.
Today I am cooking:
Stuffed Cabbage (Holishkes), Celery Soup, and Kreplach. I guess Eastern Europe came through strong this week. Recipes and photos coming up soon...
Here are most of the labels from the Sherry tasting. It took most of a day to remove them from the bottles. The bottles are another story - they are beautiful. The colors of glass used in the bottles are unlike the colors used today. That will be for a later post.
I really like the tax stamp that was on the Diezmo bottle. The last two or three labels were beyond salvage. I will try to get a label from those in the future. Each label will link back to a full resolution version at flickr.
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