Sip Bite Blog: Part 1 {A Food Pairing Dream.}
I am so excited to tell you about the past four days! I feel like it may have been a dream?
When I received the invite to attend Kendall Jackson’s Sip, Bite Blog, I literally re-read the email five or six times. I rarely get invited to anything blog-related, and when I do I often turn it down because I really just like this little relationship you and I have got going on here… I tell you about recipes and weird life stuff and you tell me that I’m not always crazy and that seriously, I can’t call “crack brownies” crack brownies because I’ve never tried crack. You know.
But seriously, who could pass this up? I just feel so honored and lucky and blessed to have been asked on such a trip of a lifetime.
We began Friday night with a reception, and by reception I really mean a food and wine pairing.
I can hardly wait to show you the rest of my meals this weekend that were prepared by the amazing culinary team at Kendall Jackson. You know how I love when the passion for food oozes out of someone’s soul? Yeah. This was perfect. It was probably some of the best food I’ve eaten. Unfortunately I forgot to grab the menu for this first tasting, so bear with my sensory-overload mind.
We sampled a wine with each dish.
Fried green tomatoes +
buckwheat crepes that included a bit of apple butter…Â
…smoked fennel and tomato soup + a sweet tea-brined pork belly slider + a baby taco which I will remember the name of five minutes after I publish this post…
…and with the dessert wines, a vanilla bean panna cotta with strawberry gelee…
…and famous homemade caramel corn.
At this point Lori turned to me and said “uh, Jessica? I don’t think you’re actually supposed to drink all of the wine.” Oops.
So after eating seven courses, we ate dinner.
We had wood-fire pizzas and these amazing vegetables which even I devoured.
And then we had this.
Tiramisu trifle. That was pretty outrageous.
Tomorrow I’ll tell you about the rest of the trip. I’m currently holed up in a San Fran airport hotel all by myself, watching a Boardwalk Empire marathon. I’m in wine withdrawal.
60 Comments on “Sip Bite Blog: Part 1 {A Food Pairing Dream.}”
so jeal of this weekend….everything on every plate looks absolutely perfect.
Um, that sounds fantastic. My hubs works in the grocery industry and we get invited to some wine and liquor shows. We always have a good time! ;)
Can you please, please, pretty please with some crack brownies on top recreate that tiramisu trifle? Seriously, OMGeeeeeWhiz that looks yummy!!!!!
i am so jealous i can’t even stand to look at your amazing pictures…but i digress. i looked at every single one of them. love!!
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Gorgeous pictures in this post!!!!
oh wow. I didn’t see the Tiramisu trifle on any of the other blogs that talked about this event. I love a good tiramisu, and that doesn’t just look good; it looks incredible. yum.
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