Life with Wine and Food

Bill at Northstar Winery

Waiting to blend our own wines at Northstar Winery

14 Hands Winery 2016

50th Birthday Dinner

Great wine with surf and turf for dinner to celebrate my birthday!

Just a few bottles of wine!

Wines we had for an unbelievable BBQ dinner with great friends!

Wine Tasting Dinner

Fun night with friends!

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I'm Nancy Gargan, and I have been learning about wine since 1991 and teaching others since 1999. Over the past 18 years I have made many Great Friends, Tasted many Great Wines, and Paired them with many Great Meals.

Highlights

As I work on different posts for specific ideas they will appear below so click on them to check them out!

Archive list of 2014 Monday Nights

In January 2014 we tasted the following Cabernet Sauvignon wines. I started this website after this tasting so I don’t have all the info at my fingertips right now while I am on the road but here are the wines for a reference. We had Beef Wellinton, 5 cheese mac…

Summer 2014 Drink Ideas

I got an email from Food and Wine today which led me to this gallery of Pitcher Drinks, can’t wait to try some of these and write my thoughts! Pitcher Drinks by Food & Wine Sangria Slush by Nancy Gargan I took a Sangria recipe and made it…

Grape Harvest in Topeka!

Today Bill and I were so blessed to spend the morning with friends as we were invited to a friends house who grows grapes and make his own wine. It was our first time to get to harvest grapes and really participate in the first steps of making wine. Here…

Easter Dinner 2014

Grilled Chicken Parm & Tuttorosso Bill and I spent Easter at home just two of us this year. We decided to use the Roasted Garlic & Basil Tomato Sauce we canned last fall and make our version of Grilled Chicken Parmesan with Basil Fettuccine and Grilled Asparagus. We paired Brian…

Row Eleven/Stratton Lummis

April is a transition month for those of us who are Monday night winos. We are finishing up with the reds and looking forward to the white wines. In the past we have done specific countries, but this year we are going to check out 1 winery that has just…

March Shiraz Tasting

In March we are tasting Shiraz as the Aussies call it, traditionally this would be known as Syrah. For this tasting however we are going to focus on Australia with one value outlier from California. So we have had one of the coldest winters on record here, and Shiraz is…

Food Ideas: St. Patrick’s Day

A few things come to mind when I think of St. Patrick’s Day and food. First would be Guinness Stew there are several recipes out there and I will provide my favorite link below. The second thing that comes to mind is Baileys Irish Cream! There are so many different…