March 5 – The Planet Friendly Diet

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First up is Cat Smiley with her interesting book “The Planet Friendly Diet.”

Image: front coverWould you like to lose weight, feel great, and minimize the impact of your eating habits on the environment? The Planet Friendly Diet is a unique, all-inclusive blueprint for a greener lifestyle based on responsible dietary choices. Jump start your journey to optimum health with the all-inclusive twenty-one day meal plan, and then apply the information in the accompanying nutrition guide to transform short-term success into long-term, sustainable results.

Leading body-transformation expert and former professional skier Cat Smiley shares her simple step-by-step program for a complete detox and reboot. The diet is meat, dairy, wheat and gluten-free, and comes with a weekly shopping list to ensure zero-waste. All single-portion recipes:

Use fresh, every day ingredients Cost less than $5.00 Are under 500 calories Take no more than twenty minutes to prepare

Whether you want to give your eating patterns a complete makeover or just kick start a change towards a healthier life, The Planet Friendly Diet will motivate, educate and empower you. Fully-illustrated with mouthwatering images of each internationally inspired recipe, it’s like having your very own nutrition coach and personal chef. And not only will yopu lose weight, get fit, and feel great – you’ll be contributing to a wider humanitarian cause.  Get a copy NOW!

Cat Smiley

Cat Smiley

Cat Smiley is an award-winning body transformation specialist and owner of Canada’s premiere weight-loss retreat for women, Whistler Fitness Vacations. A former world-class skier, she is a philanthropist, nutritionist, and master trainer.  Learn more about Cat here.

Brad Horning from Entercom will joins us for a brief overview of the FUN to be had at the Outdoor Living and Landscape Show going on this weekend at Century-II  www.outdoorlivingandlandscapeshow.com

Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
6040014_2_2011 Quinta Da Garrida Reserva Tinto, Dao
Rich, smooth and dense, this is a powerful wine from Caves Aliança’s quinta in the Dão. It brings together the complex texture of a fine Dão wine with great fruitiness. French and Russian oak aging have smoothed out the natural tannins of the region, giving spice and allowing the juicy acidity to shine. Drink from 2017.

Wine Enthusiast 93!

 

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Feb 27 – This Week’s Show

Tom Campbell

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My guest this week is Tom Campbell Treasury Wine Estates Area Manager for Missouri and Kansas.  Tom was in town for a great Stags Leap Winery wine dinner at YaYa’s and was able to spend some time with me talking about Stags Leap winery and the Treasury Portfolio of fine wines.

 

On one of California’s earliest wine estates, a unique terroir and ideal microclimate support a classical standard of viticulture, land use, and winemaking that is as relevant today as it was over a century ago.  An intimate valley within the greater Napa Valley, Stags’ Leap is a place of natural beauty, storied buildings and gardens, a lively history, and a reputation for elegant wines showing finesse and intensity.

Located 7 miles north of Napa on the valley’s eastern side, a 240-acre estate, 90 acres of vineyards, watershed of the Stags Leap Palisades… wine grapes have grown here continuously since the 1880s. www.stagsleap.com

 

For the past few years, Lay’s has been giving consumers some interesting and tasty new potato chip flavors courtesy of its Lay’s “Do Us a Flavor” contest. This year for the first time ever, you can help shape its potato chip flavor lineup nationwide.

Tina Mahal, Senior Director of Marketing for Frito-Lay, joins us this afternoon to share how all of us can have a hand in what flavors stay and which ones have to go in the next Lay’s flavor program: “Flavor Swap.”  One person will walk away with two hundred and fifty thousand dollars!  www.flavorswap.com

2014 Stags Leap Napa Valley ChardonnayGood Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2013 STAGS’ LEAP CHARDONNAY NAPA VALLEY
This is a beautifully aromatic wine, with stone fruit flavors of fresh peaches and nectarines mingling with pineapple, a hint of mandarin orange and other citrus fruits. A classic example of cool climate Chardonnay, this is bright and crisp, but also features lightly toasted undertones that give it length and richness on the palate. With a round, floral finish, this is a refreshing wine that is deftly balanced, ready to enjoy now but with the acidic structure to be cellared for several years.

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Feb 20 – Enchiladas & Columbia Winery

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My guest this week is Cappy Lawton, co-author of Enchiladas – Aztec to Tex-Mex.

Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex by famed San Antonio restaurateur Cappy Lawton and food writer Chris Waters Dunn, is an in-depth exploration of one of Mexico’s most historic and popular foods. Illustrated with 50 sumptuous photographs, the book features more than 60 traditional and modern recipes for enchiladas, as well as 40 recipes for the salsas, sauces, salads, and sides that accompany them.  This beautiful cookbook was recently named Best Latin American Cuisine Book, Published outside Latin America by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

What really makes Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex come alive is the wealth of historical and culinary information packed into this one-of-a-kind cookbook. Cappy Lawton, owner of La Fonda on Main, one of the country’s oldest Mexican restaurants in San Antonio, Texas, shares entertaining anecdotes and expert cooking advice with readers so they can master the art of making perfect, authentic enchiladas, including making corn tortillas from scratch, fire-roasting fresh chiles, making homemade queso fresco and crema Mexicana, and cooking the perfect Mexican rice—six ways!
Get a copy NOW!

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Cappy Lawton

Cappy Lawton has designed, developed, and operated 29 restaurants throughout Texas. After studying business and engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and having a successful career as an aeronautical designer, he entered the restaurant business. Cappy and his wife, Suzy, love food and travel and have spent many years traveling throughout Mexico. Today the Lawtons and their son, Trevor, own and operate three very popular restaurants in San Antonio: La Fonda on Main (one of the country’s oldest Mexican restaurants), Cappy’s, and Cappyccino’s.  Learn more www.enchiladasbook.com

In the second half Columbia Winery winemaker Sean Hails joins us to talk about this 1st class Washington producer and we’ll taste the wine of the week together. www.columbiawinery.com

Sean Hails

Winemaker Sean Hails is at once an artist and an experimenter. And according to him, it’s hard not to be given the diversity in geography, climate and soil of Washington State.

Sean has always had a progressive approach and sense of adventure toward winemaking that has led him around the world. After earning a bachelor’s degree in microbiology from the University of Guelph in Ontario, he headed to Australia, where he balanced his work in winemaking with backpacking excursions along the coastal cities of Brisbane and Sydney. Today, Sean funnels his diverse background into a distinctive, contemporary winemaking style.

Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2013 Columbia winery Cabernet Sauvignon
81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Syrah, 3% Malbec, 3% Select Red Varieties. Rich and full-bodied, our Cabernet Sauvignon is well-structured with firm tannins and ripe dark fruit flavors of blackberry and black currant layered with notes of toasty oak and cocoa. Try Columbia Cabernet alongside hearty stews, roasts or wild game meats.

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Feb 13 – Seasons Among the Vines

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My guest this week is Paula Moulton.

Nearly ten years after her husband was killed in a car accident—and three days before the 2003 release of her first edition of this book—Paula Moulton took a risk and enrolled in a ten-month wine management program at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.

In this second edition of Seasons Among the Vines, Moulton details the adventures that ensue when she leaves her home in Sonoma to face the unknown in France. In Paris, she has not only the struggles of living in a foreign country to cope with but also the rigors of the French academic system—complete with a one-month stint in Bergerac as a cellar rat and a six-week internship as a sommelier in a prestigious restaurant off Le Champs Elysees. Interspersed throughout her narrative is advice for weekend gardeners and wine-loving suburbanites on how to make wine at home, as well as everything a reader could ever need to know about successful food and wine pairing, how to make intelligent decisions when choosing wine, and how to smell, swirl, and taste wine like a pro.

Full of international escapades, unforeseen wine disasters, and new-world twists on old-world secrets,Seasons Among the Vines paints a bona fide picture of what it means to follow a dream even after suffering great loss.  Get a copy NOW!

Paula Moulton

Paula Moulton is co-founder and CEO of A Sip Away. She is a viticulturist, award-winning winemaker, and published author with over 25 years of experience in the wine industry. She has worked with wine talent such as Joel Peterson of Ravenswood Winery, Mike Benziger of Benziger Family Winery, Jean-Luc Thunevin (Bordeaux’s Bad Boy wine), and Phil Coturri of Enterprise Vineyards. She was recently one of 20 students invited to spend a year in Paris, France studying wine management at Le Cordon Bleu. Paula has appeared on the Today Show, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CRN, and other major media outlets as an author and wine industry leader. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Rhetoric, an AS in viticulture from Santa Rosa Junior College, and a Wine Management degree from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, France. She currently lives in Sonoma, California.  www.paulamoulton.com 

Guy & Bob Cooley

Guy & Bob Cooley

FINALLY…Kansas, we have Benovia available.  My good buddy Bob Cooley, VP of Marketing and Sales at Benovia joins us to talk about one of the products that recently arrived on the shelf at Jacob Liquor Exchange.  Benovia winemaker and co-proprietor Mike Sullivan is a rock star and making some of the finest Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in Sonoma.  The new wine making facility will allow Mike not only to continue his spectacular track record but set the bar even higher.  Learn more about Benovia!

 

Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2012 Benovia Russian River Chardonnay
This Chardonnay is bursting with aromas of citrus blossoms, nectarine and spice baked pears. The multifaceted aromas and dense mouth feel are knit together by centered acidity and a long-complex candied apricot finish. Barrel fermentation and oak aging for 12 months have added hints of candied ginger, and baking spice to a subtle minerality on the finish.

Stop by Jacob Liquor Exchange on North Rock Road, pick up a bottle and join us!

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Feb 6 – Super Bowl Fun & much more!

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Hey…what happened to January?  At least we are that much closer to Spring and more importantly it’s almost time for Super Bowl 50.

In the first half I’ll be telling you all about some nifty Super Bowl party ideas.  So many ways to go about entertaining and watching the game.  Whether you are a BIG crowd enthusiast and go to a local sports bar to watch and party (emphasis on party) or you sequester yourself in your private man cave so y0u don’t miss a play or commercial.  How you watch, entertain, and enjoy this sports spectacle is a personal issue.

For me…I like to have all cooking down well ahead of time, the wine, beer or spirits set up and ready and my comfortable chair with remote close by.

One of my guests is Katrina Jorgensen who has authored several books on tailgating, Food, Football and FUN! She will join us to share who story and some of her favorite dishes for Super Sunday.  “Football season is here! Get your football party started off right with an exciting mix of appetizers, main dishes, drinks, and desserts. From peachy-BBQ meatballs to ham-and-cheese pinwheels, these tasty party treats will send party guests rushing for a second helping.”

Might even call one of Wichita’s fine Chefs and get their opinion on Football Food & Fun

 

Later in the show Ron Passmore, President and CEO of KETCH joins us to talk not only about this great education and training program for adults with disabilities here in Kansas but about the upcoming Palette to Palate – A Wine & Art Experience.  This event is truly on of the BEST Art, food & wine events in the Midwest.  The what, where, when:

palette-to-palateNoah’s Event Venue
Friday, Feb 26 2016 6:30 PM
1550 N. Lindberg Circle
Wichita, KS 67206

This year’s event will feature a champagne reception, live and silent auctions, and wine dinner prepared by Larkspur Bistro & Bar.  The night will also include an exclusive VIP Pre-Party with Herb Krumsick, the ultimate wine tasting experience in Wichita featuring the most prestigious  wines you’ll ever have the chance to savor.

Palette to Palate is an evening of perfect pairings to benefit KETCH and the more than 400 adults with developmental disabilities in our vocational training, residential supports, and adult day services.  Join us for this divine sensory experience all while supporting adults with disabilities in their mission to aspire higher!

Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
t01113525b_12013 Sebastiani Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon
This wine is dark ruby in color with enchanting aromatics ranging from blackberry to mild cassis that interplay with hints of coconut and mild leafiness. The flavors are bold and riper including black fruits on first attack followed by layers of coconut and a vanilla finish due to oak barrel aging. This medium-bodied wine is richer and more structured than the 2012. Very drinkable now! – Mark R. Lyon, Winemaker

76.5% Cabernet, 7.6% Merlot, 6.6% Malbec, 6.5% Ruby Cabernet, 1% Petit Verdot, 1.8% Mixed Reds
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