Good Cheap Wine Guide

OK, it’s March Madness time!  Conference playoffs are going on.  Time for real simple fare that doesn’t take you away from the tube.  (Would a 60″ flat panel look good over the stove?…hmm)  Anyway, got a great red sauce that we whip up.  Go Illini!
Ingredients:

2 jars Classico Traditional Basil pasta sauce
1 8 oz. jar mushrooms drained
5 oz […]

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Dirty Risotto
from:Giada De Laurentiis, Giada’s family dinners

Serve to Guests!
This is an AWESOME restaurant quality meal!
Ingredients:

5 cups reduced sodium chicken broth

2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 ounces pancetta, chopped
6 ounces spicy italian sausage, casings removed (we use turkey sausage too)
3/4 cup finely chopped onion
1 cup chopped red bell pepper
4 ounces button mushrooms, trimmed and coarsely chopped
1 […]

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Sorry, I can’t stand it and have to put it out there.
I am so frustrated with the way professional sports team owners have allowed, no created, today’s sport brat, thug professional phony athlete! As an example, today read where Jason Marquis, a great guy but average pitcher at best, would rather be traded from […]

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Hi everyone! I wrote a few days ago about a MO winery, Mount Pleasant Winery. I ran across a business friend of mine a while back and lo and behold, the business card he gave me was not what I expected. The dirty dog gave me a card naming Bethlehem Valley, a winery in Marthasville, […]

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I am so disappointed. I ran into some people recently down in Florida. They had a really cool business card for what sounded like a great thing for the Goodcheapwineguide guy. (AKA the Wine Oaf) Their card listed a site called popchampagne.us. They spoke of a site that, when finished, […]

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