Up first is Cythia Graubart with her new book “Slow Cooking for Two – Basics, Techniques, Recipes”
Meals for two have never been so easy or delicious. Using nothing more than a slow cooker for heat and a few common kitchen helpers-like foil, mini loaf pans, ramekins, a metal jar ring, a glass baking dish, plastic liners, and a stick blender-Cynthia Stevens Graubart turns the common slow cooker (3 1/2-quart) into a multi-use cooking convenience. Slow Cooking for Two includes basic instructions and creative methods for 100 recipes, plus tips and techniques.
Cynthia Stevens Graubart is coauthor of Southern Biscuits and Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking with Nathalie Dupree, and author of The One-Armed Cook. She is married with two children. With her second child now away at college, she is adjusting to cooking for two at her home in Atlanta, Georgia.
In the second half I’ll be talking and tasting Olive Oil with Lisa Madden.
Lisa and John Madden are opening Olio’s Market, which will mainly sell olive oil, but will also have accompanying products like bread, pasta and pizza crust. The store will carry 10 kinds of oils that are pressed from different olives. Madden says they’ll be pressed and sold within a six-month window. The store will offer an additional 10 kinds of flavored oils, such as blood orange and basil-infused oil, on a seasonal basis as well as an array of vinegar.
John & Lisa Madden
Olio’s Market, at 10051 W. 21st St, Wichita Kansas
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2010 Stoller Vineyards Reserve Pinot Noir
This Reserve Pinot Noir comes from a selection of the best vineyard blocks and barrels in the cellar. It is barrel aged in French oak for 10 months prior to bottling and carefully blended from individual lots to articulate the vintage. Aromas of rose petals and cinnamon stick with caramelized brown sugar pair wonderfully as the palate displays an integrated balance of cherry and golden raspberry, accented with notes of baking spice on its seamless finish.