Snow and Public Television

So there we were. For the 2nd Friday in a row, we had snow. Lots of it. Last Friday, I had a Romantic Dinner for Two. Ordinarily, I’d have cancelled. In addition to trying to get there, or back, in a snowy monsoon, I’m also particularly inept at driving up my steep driveway after we get a wee bit of frozen precipitation. So, last week, for the first time ever, I walked to a Romantic Dinner for Two. Yup. Right up the street. I dropped the food, pots and pans, and other goodies off before it snowed. I trudged over there in the snow for the dinner, and and then trudged home. It was not only a fun trudge (a fun trudge?), but a fun dinner, too.

But last night, the snow actually held off until the drive home. Karen and I were at the Springfield Marriott for the WGBY wine tasting. No, sadly, I tasted no wine. But we did give out lots of our own samples. I was sautéing barramundi, a really cool fish from Turners Falls. Okay, it’s really from Australia. It’s an Australian sea bass. But it’s farm raised in Turners Falls, and has no mercury, PCBs, hormones, etc. And, even better than that, it tastes really good, too. So for three hours, we did sampling with my own new recipe, which I called Barramundi Piccata. Carol Devine, the VP of marketing at Australis, the barramundi company (www.australis.com), joined us for the festivities as we gave out samples and chatted with most of the 400+ people who were there.

And what was the fee to WGBY to participate? They asked for a bottle of wine. So I gave them one of the bottles that I made with friends last year. It was a cabernet sauvignon. And it really came out well, too. I called it “Chateau LaFeet Greyhound.” I wonder how much they got for it at the auction? Coming up next is the WGBY wine auction in April. It’s their big fund raiser. And I’ll be donating a dinner party for 8 (10?) with a cooking lesson thrown in.

Stay tuned…