Jul 13 – Weber’s Ultimate Grilling

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Guy

My guest this week is Weber’s Grill Master and award winning author of numerous books about grilling Jamie Purviance with  his new book Weber’s Ultimate Grilling – A Step-by-Step Guide to Barbecue Genius.

From the experts at Weber, the must-have guide for total grill mastery, with 100 all-new recipes and more than 800 inspiring and instructive photos.  This is your new go-to companion from the most trusted name in grilling. Much more than just a recipe collection, Weber’s Ultimate Grilling is an entirely new take on grilling today, with every recipe step visually depicted in full-color photography. With these extensively tested recipes, anyone—from amateur to ace—can be a barbecue genius. Foundational recipes for popular grilled foods—steak, burgers, pork chops, ribs, chicken breasts and wings, and salmon fillets—are masterfully explained in this keepsake classroom-in-a-book. “Flavor Bomb” spreads offer inspiring, weeknight-friendly recipe ideas for how to create wonderful variations of the most-loved grilled foods. And fun food science facts, along with infographics, illustrations, and tips, help you get the absolute best results every time. Get a copy NOW!

JAMIE PURVIANCE is one of America’s top grilling experts and Weber’s master griller. He graduated from Stanford University and the Culinary Institute of America before launching a career as a food writer for publications such as Bon Appetit, Better Homes and Gardens, Fine Cooking, Town & Country, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of numerous cookbooks including Weber’s Way to Grill, a James Beard Award nominee and New York Times best seller. Purviance has appeared as a grilling authority on numerous television shows including Today, The Early Show, Good Morning America, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. He lives in Sacramento, California. WEBER GRILL: The year was 1952. Weber Brothers Metal Works employee George Stephen Sr. had a crazy idea. Using as a model the marine buoys made by his company, he concocted a funky dome-shaped grill with a lid to protect food and keep in rich barbecue flavor. From those humble beginnings, an international grilling revolution was born. Today, Weber has grown to become the leading brand of charcoal and gas grills and accessories, and George’s kettle has become a backyard icon.  Follow Jamie on Face Book & Twitter.

Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
Something FUN and good value for when you fire up the grill.
2017 Granite Hill Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, Lodi California
The 2017 vintage displays aromas of dark cherries and toasted vanilla oak, followed up with flavors of black currants, blueberries, sweet raspberry and slight hint of tobacco and spice. The finish is lingering and flavorful with red currants and oak.  This is a great wine with most any grilled meat off the Weber.

Grab some at Jacob Liquor Exchange on North Rock Road in Wichita!  Learn more here

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Jul 6 – Charcoal

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Guy

My guest this week is Chef Josiah Citrin with his new book Charcoal – New ways to Cook with Fire!

Josiah Citrin is a culinary expert and veteran of Los Angeles’s gourmet dining scene, with more than 25 years of experience. He is a two-star Michelin chef and owner of Santa Monica California’s highly-acclaimed Mélisse, Charcoal Venice, and Dave’s Doghouse in the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles, the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Scottsdale, Arizona. His culinary philosophy, “In Pursuit of Excellence” sets the standard for all of his concepts, whether fine-dining or casual.  Get a copy NOW!  Follow on Twitter.

  • California-cool grilling wisdom from one of the most renowned chefs in Los Angeles.
  • Josiah Citrin is one of the biggest names in the L.A. food world and his restaurant, Mélisse, is a temple for fine dining. But his hot new restaurant, Charcoal Venice, is devoted to the kind of cooking he does at home for his friends and family–backyard cookouts where a pile of coals and seasonal ingredients are all a home cook needs to create an unforgettable meal. In Charcoal, Citrin presents completely fresh ways to cook with fire and charcoal, not only grilling over the coals,
  • Whether Citrin’s grilling barbecue classics like Marinated Skirt Steak and Salt-Baked Whole Maine Lobster or West Coast-inspired vegetable sides like his signature Cabbage Baked in Embers, charcoal is the dynamic center of this cookbook. Unlike other grilling books, vegetables get equal billing with meat. For Citrin, the color, texture, and flavors of vegetables are endlessly inspiring. With almost 100 recipes for savory main dishes and sides, as well as desserts and even cocktails.

www.charcoalvenice.com

Good Life Guy’s Wine of the week:
2015 Bodegas Alceno Romeo Seleccion Monastrell
100% Monastrell from Jumilla on the Southeast coast of Spain, this wine is rich and concentrated with a fruity noce of cherries, plums, blackberrries, licorice, leather, cocoa, pepper, graphite and violets. A dense fruity palate offers a seductive charm with a muscular elegance and a very long finish.   Something FUN to go with live fire grilled deliciousness!

James Suckling: 92 Points
A very concentrated impression from the get-go with stony black minerals and dark cherry fruits. The purity is impressive and the oak works well. The palate has handy freshness and depth of flavor. Drink now.

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Jun 29 – Trading Dishes

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Guy

My guest this week is Chef Steven Ferneding, world traveler, author and host of the upcoming TV series Trading Didhes.

Trading Dishes is a travel cooking television series in the making.  Circumnavigate the globe with Chef Steven Ferneding and explore with him, through his mission, to learn traditional meal preparation while Trading Dishes, to expand local communities’ culinary knowledge.

The viewer joins Chef Steven to develop new, healthy dishes while examining local living conditions, cooking methods, agricultural practices and learn the perils of diminishing food supply.

Chef Steven’s book “Trading Dishes Cookbook”  Follow Steven on Face Book

​Recently co-authored and published, The Trading Dishes cookbook is an exotic collection of healthy recipes that will take you on a culinary adventure around the world. Based on the upcoming international show Trading Dishes, Chef Steven Ferneding teaches locals and remote viewers alike new and healthy dishes. He uses the produce available locally to them as they adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change.

This international cookbook also includes, spotlights of locals and excerpts from the Trading Dishes team’s expedition around South East Asia. There are stories of environmental change and personal travel tips from the chef. The recipes found here are a mere taste of what you’ll see on the upcoming show.

Chef Steven Ferneding is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu College with a degree in Culinary Arts and a graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelors Degree in International Business and Communications.  Chef Steven holds a 5 Star Rating on Yelp, is listed as the “Top 10 Best Personal Chef in Portland, Oregon, has been featured on ABC, CBS, FOX and AZTV television program.  He has over 10 years of private chef experience in homes and private yachts around the world. In addition to being a private chef, Chef Steven is the host and creator of a worldwide movement and travel cooking series called “Trading Dishes”

Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2017 Jacob~Heims Riesling Spätlese
Blazing red soils on an insanely steep vineyard. Pronounced nuances of exotic spices and mesmerizing earthiness. Bursting with tropical fruit flavors and pears. Old vines in a red volcanic soil with a high iron content makes this wine a pure delight. Give it a slight chill and enjoy with oysters, calamari grilled and dressed with olive oil and oregano and angel hair pasta lightly tossed with poached salmon pieces and pine nuts.  A great match for Thai or Indian cuisine.

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Jun 22- A Baker’s Passport

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Guy

Joining me this week is Susie Norris “The Food Market Gypsy” and author of A Baker’s Passport.

Travel the world with A BAKER’S PASSPORT: Recipes for Bread, Savory Pies, Vegetarian Dishes, Tarts, Cakes, and Cookie Classics. This global tour of regional baking explores the breads of Vienna, the cakes of France, American family dinner favorites and much more. Based on the award-winning culinary travel blog, Food Market Gypsy, this technique-driven baking book for home cooks offers well-tested recipes for classics like Quiche Lorraine, Chicken Blanc, Black Forest Cake, and Creme Brûlée. Pastry Chef Susie Norris brings stories of the world’s great baking traditions home to you.  Learn more about the book HERE. Get a copy today!

About the Author
Susie Norris is a pastry chef, educator, and food-focused traveler. She taught baking at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts and ran an award-winning artisan chocolate business in Los Angeles for 10 years. Her books are CHOCOLATE BLISS (Random House/Celestial Arts, 2008), HAND-CRAFTED CANDY BARS (with Susan Heeger, Chronicle Books, 2013), and her latest, A BAKER’S PASSPORT. Her culinary travel blog, FOODMARKETGYPSY.COM, won the IACP Digital Media Award, 2016.  She is based in Los Angeles with roots in the farm-to-table culture of the Berkshires of Massachusetts and Kentucky bourbon country, and her travels focus on regional baking capitals and culinary hot spots all around the world.  Follow Susie on Facebook and Twitter
www.foodmarketgypsy.com

Later in the second half Tiya Tonn joins us to talk about an upcoming Farm to Fork tour and dinner coming up July 11.  A great informative and fun learning experience followed by a special dinner.

 

Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2018 Greetings from the Willamette Valley Rosé
Greetings Rose  is flawlessly layered with soft berries, hints of creativity, spontaneity, lush mid-palate texture, unexpected and exciting subtle layers of confidence and a bright crisp finish. A serious wine to satisfy a serious palate. Premium grapes, premium production. Small Lots, Nothing “o­ brand” or “bulk” about this wine. A great aperitif, a great food wine, especially in the heat of early summer!

Learn more at  www.greetingswinecompany.com

 

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Jun 15 – Erica Crawford & Loveblock wines

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Guy

Hoping to have New Zealand Wine legend Kim Crawford on the show this Saturday.  If memory serves me well, it was almost exactly 13 years ago that I did a live face-to-face interview with Mr. Crawford at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic.  An affable, intelligent winemaker who seemed over the moon happy and extremely cheerful.  When I asked him about the cheeriness he explained that he had just sold his winery.  Not really a sad thing, although his name went with the brand and he had a non-compete clause, it might just give him the money needed to buy more vineyard property and set about starting a new brand.

Non-compete is up and the new brand is on the shelf here in Kansas, it’s called Loveblock. He’s coming to Wichita next week for a dinner at Scotch & Sirloin.

I hope to have the opportunity to chat with Mr. Crawford, catch up on his wine journey with wife Erica and learn about Loveblock.

Check back soon…

Almost as good, got to chat with Erica Crawford, Kim’s wife who is the co-proprietor of Loveblock.  Some great stories and learned a bunch about the history of the vineyards and the Crawford’s journey in wine.

Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:

 

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