Today Kevin and I learned that Christmas shopping near a cooking store (or a wine store!) can be dangerous.
Not that any of it isn't useful! No, no, it's all stuff we needed (well, maybe except for the food). We got a 12 inch spatter screen, which is good for the 12 inch skillet (the smaller spatter screen just wasn't doing it). Two small scoops for cookie baking. A new parmesan cheese grater. A new pepper mill (since Kevin dunked the other in the crockpot and it just *didn't* come clean). Four small glass oil cruet jars with nice spouts.
We had stopped into the specialty food/wine store early in the day, and they had recommended coming back for the wine tasting later. So I sent Kevin there while I picked up a last few things. When I got there, I tried a couple of wines, and we ended up buying three more wines (for my already too full wine cabinet). A red because of the name (Chateu St. Nick, which Kevin intends to try for Christmas Eve). A Relax Riesling white, which was soft and fruity, without being overly dry or sweet. An Electra (or was it Elektra? anyway...) which is a darling dessert wine which isn't too sweet but is rather like a soft mellow juice. Very nice and simple, and I'll have that out for after dinner at Christmas Eve.
And yes, we did manage to do some Christmas shopping for other people too. *smiles* But I swear, every place we stopped that had to do with cooking, we came out with *something* for us.
Posted by Deb Atwood at December 5, 2004 04:01 PM | TrackBack