My guest this week is Kim Wilcox with her Great Book of Grilled Cheese: 100+ Recipes for the Ultimate Comfort Food, Soups, Salads, and Sides.
Who doesn’t love a warm and crispy grilled cheese sandwich? A must-have cookbook filled with over 100 recipes for grilled cheese, soups, salads, sides, and even desserts, Great Book of Grilled Cheese is sure to be a crowd-pleaser for the whole family! Using easy ingredients and even leftovers, discover endless and out-of-the-box possibilities for delicious grilled cheese sandwiches, plus the perfect side pairing. From deviled bacon grilled cheese to creamy tomato basil soup, included with each recipe is a charming introduction that captures author and chef Kim Wilcox’s kitchen memories. Also included are contributions from celebrity TV chefs, including Brandon Frohne (Food Network’s Chopped and Chopped Redemption, Travel Channel’s Chow Masters & Secret Eats, and winner of Cooking Channel’s Snack Attack), Chef Lisa Varnado (Netflix’s Sugar Rush), and others. Kim is the owner of the popular family-owned restaurant It’s All So Yummy in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her recipes have also appeared in the best-selling title, The Ultimate Spam® Cookbook. Get a copy NOW
Later in the show I’ll tell you all about the American Institute of Wine & Food (AIWF) event this month.
2021 RIEDEL Performance Wine Glass Tasting With special guest Doug Reed
Regional Crystal Sales Manager of America, Riedel/Spiegelau/Nachtmann
September 23 • 6:30 p.m. – Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Wichita
Cost: $85 members/non-members – Seating limited Sign up HERE!
Who would have thought you could make your fine wine taste even better? It’s all about the glass!!
If you don’t believe it, join us for one of the hottest tasting classes being offered today. Hone your palate and your tasting senses at the AIWF Riedel Performance Wine Glass tasting on Thursday, Sept. 23. Riedel Crystal Regional Sales Manager Doug Reed will introduce you to one of the newest world of Riedel glasses — the Performance collection
With three generations of research, development and experience in creating wine specific glassware Georg Riedel & Maximilian J. Riedel have created Performance; the ultimate speaker for fine wine. Lightweight, durable and dishwasher safe, Performance glasses are executed in sparkling crystal glass, and feature long fine stems and large stable bases. Performance’s unique optic impact not only adds a pleasing visual aspect to the bowl, but also increases the inner surface area, allowing the wine to open up and to fully show every aroma and subtle nuance. The grape varietal specific shapes in Performance, when combined with the optic impact, deliver ultimate wine enjoyment, making Performance the new essential ‘must-have’ wine glass collection for all wine-lovers.
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2019 Vaglio Aggie Malbec
This is 100% Malbec from a single vineyard in Gualtallary, Uco Valley. The wine shows notes of butterscotch, chocolate, and baked blueberry pie sprinkled with powdered sugar. A round and creamy mid palate laced with hazel nuts round out this lighter style, mineral driven Malbec.
James Suckling 94/100 points!
This wine and two others Malbec’s from Vaglio are available at Jacob Liquor. They all showcase the different soils and microclimates from where they are grown
Vaglio is the personal project of José Lovaglio Balbo – if the name Balbo sounds familiar, it is because his mother Susana Balbo (and her hugely successful “Crios” wines) has helped to define Argentinian Malbec over the years. Lovaglio is one of the head winemakers at his mother’s winery, Dominio del Plata. In his independently owned and operated Vaglio, however, José aims to showcase the different microclimates of northern Mendoza through terroir-driven wines. In 2013 he found an old winery for rent in Tupungato, refurbished it, and began to produce single vineyard wines from different sub-regions and soil types. All wines are vinified in the same way with minimal intervention. The Aggie consists of 100% Malbec from Capataz, a 52-acre vineyard planted in 2008 at 3,800 feet altitude in Gualtallary in the Uco Valley. The soils are calcareous, stony soils of alluvial origin and the vines are farmed sustainably. The fruit is destemmed, then vinified with native yeasts over 40 days. Aged for 8 months, 40% in new French oak, the wine is juicy, supple and generous. It features the drinkability Malbec is known for, but the minerality, precision and freshness that have us looking at Argentinian wine with a renewed curiosity and thirst.
In 2017, Jenny Dawn Cellars established a working partnership with a wine facilitator in Napa, California. In 2019, Jenny Dawn Cellars opened a winery and tasting room in the heart of downtown Wichita located at Union Station. Jennifer now crafts and bottles her wines on-site, with grapes and juice sourced from the finest growers in California and Kansas.
The Jenny Dawn Cellars Black Locomotive wine is made from Kansas Crimson Cabernet grapes. Crimson Cabernet is a hybrid. It combines the grapes of Cabernet Sauvignon and Norton. This wine is ruby red almost purple in color, dry, medium bodied, robust, has lush fruits of black cherry, elderberry with delicate fig, basil, and cedar spices. Our Black Locomotive pairs well with any lean pork, steak, and veggies as well as hamburgers. ABV14%
This red is sleek and solid, in the modern style. Bright cherry, berry and currant flavors mingle with licorice, black tea and mineral notes, giving way to a floral and minerally finish. The firm tannins are well-integrated and juicy acidity keeps this lively. Mourvèdre, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah.