Daily Archives: January 27, 2016
Wine Whine . . .
First off, Jan wants to thank everyone for their many get well soon’s and feel better soon’s that came in from everyone. She was feeling a lot better today, and hopefully will be back to normal and back to walking tomorrow.
We saw on Facebook this afternoon that one of our favorite restaurants is opening down in The Woodlands. Brandi and Lowell first took us to the Torchy’s Tacos down in Katy last February, and it quickly become one of our favorite places.
Torchy’s is not your run-of-the-mill taco place. I guess the best description would be gourmet tacos, with just about any ingredients you can think of.
My favorites are the two below. On the left is a grilled jalapeno sausage, split lengthwise, topped with shredded cheese and pico de gallo, and on the right, slow-roasted pork carnitas, topped with green chiles, queso fresco, cilantro, and grilled onions.
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Jan’s favorite is the Jamaican Jerked Chicken Taco, with grilled jalapenos, mango chunks, sour cream, and cilantro. And the Chicken Fajita Taco, with grilled chicken breast, grilled onions and peppers, shredded cheese, and pico de gallo.
According to their website, the new Woodland’s Torchy’s will open right after we come back to Conroe again on February 14th.
Really looking forward to it.
On the subject of restaurants, a while back we were all at a local place and ordered a bottle of Moscato, a somewhat sweet, dessert wine. And it turned out to be a bottle of Beringer’s, one that we’d never tried before.
I’ve always heard those wine snob phrases, like ‘just a hint of smoky oak’ or ‘earthy, full-bodied and bright’, and ‘with a smooth buttery aftertaste’, but it’s the first time I really knew what they meant. When you take a sip of the Beringer’s Moscato, you definitely get a ‘smooth buttery aftertaste’, so I guess the wine snobs aren’t making ALL up. It was really good, but at $22 a bottle on the bill, kind of rich for our taste.
But as we were leaving the Conroe Wal-Mart last week, I saw a Beringer’s display and decided to see if they had the Moscato. And boy, did they!
The $22 bottle at the restaurant was $4.47 at Wal-Mart.
WOW! Now that’s a markup.
Now that I can afford.
“I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food.” — W. C. Fields
Thought for the Day:
For some reason this one hit pretty close to home.
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