Barbara Visits

Wine:

Clos Pegase 2002 Palisades Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Podere Casale Gutturnio Riserva 2001
Lw Vieux Donjon Chateauneuf-du-pape 1998
Domaine Yaymond Dupont-Fahn Bourgogne 2006
Donnhoff Niederhausen Hermannshohle Riesling Auslese 1998

Our friend Barbara arrived from San Francisco and we cooked a dinner for her. Billy and Kevin joined us.

We started with one of our favorite salads from The Cuisine of California: Sauted Red Cabbage Salad with Pancetta and Broiled Goat Cheese. It is a wonderful warm salad.

For the main course we made a Pork Roast. We purchased the pork from Harvey Guss. It was great. The recipe was from The Zuni Cafe Cookbook. We really liked it and will make it again.

We also made Mashed Potatoes from the same cookbook. It is a very rich recipe.

I know that Fruit Cake has a bad reputation, however we make one every year that is just great. It has none of the candied fruit in it, just rasins and walnuts. It is very good. It is in The New York Times Cookbook by Craig Claiborne.

We had lots of very good wine!