Second part of Post

Maybe the last post was to long Blogger cut this bit off. Sorry folks.

MY WINE LOG

Tonight was one of those where Jocelyn preferred to have a scotch and dry leaving me free to indulge myself in a white wine. I chose a 2001 Gartelmann Reserve Semillon which is still for sale at a very reasonable price from the winery. Semillon pronounced "Semi yon" is renowned as a seafood wine, especially when young and needing food to merge with it's lean, flinty, citrus flavours. However tonight's wine is maturing well and the golden hue in the glass reflects in the butter papaya aroma on the nose and a soft silky lemon honey taste with a long back palate which I think will go well with my meal choice for the evening.

I am a meat lover and it is rare that as an adult I have a meal where there is not some form of meat on the plate, but I no longer discard completely the idea of meatless meals and on one occasion several years ago, some of my friends may remember the agony of a meatless day. Last night I decided to revisit an old favorite and one that introduced me to meatless dining, Vegetable Casserole.

Broccoli, Brown Onions, three colors of Capsicum, green beans, fresh garlic, carrots and pumpkin were steamed to bring out the vibrancy of their colours. This is then placed in a casserole with a gravy of red and white wine vinegar, soy sauce, mustard, basil and ground black pepper. I then put a tub of fat free cottage cheese into the mix and cooked it for 10 minutes in an already heated oven. Then added grated low fat cheddar as a covering and left for a further 15 minutes. Add a side salad or serve over rice, but we had it on its own. It was delicious, creamy and crunchy at the same time, but I thought needed a cleanser afterwards. So I will start to look at adding some healthy desserts to the Wine Log from time to time

But in the meantime don't you just love food n wine

For those of you who would like to try meatless meals occasionally I have included some links to appropriate recipe pages

http://www.fatfree.com/

http://www.cilicia.com/armo_cb_no_mees.html

http://www.vrg.org/recipes/egypt.htm

http://www.vrg.org/recipes/vjgreek.htm

http://www.ivu.org/recipes/

http://www.indiatastes.com/NewDirectory/Recipes/Default.aspx

http://www.conagrafoods.com/consumer/recipes/searchresults.jsp

http://www.epicurious.com/tools/searchresults?search=meatless+meal+recipes%2Cmeatless+meal+recipes