The Wine and Food Corner

Celebrate with us! This week is Albert Wohlner’s Anniversary(birthday).

Wohlner’s Grocery c. 1919, 33rd and California St.

 

 5 Free Wine Tastings Weds.-Sun. 4-7:30, this week

We celebrate and remember his birthday with 5 FREE WINE TASTINGS (Weds-Sunday, 4pm-7:30pm):  Check out the wines HERE

Wohlner’s Ad Flyer for the Week of 2-14-10:  CLICK HERE

Celebrate with us and fight this wicked winter with some festive fun. Have friends over for an aperitif, wine, cocktail, make a whole meal of appetizers and desserts. Have a brunch at home with friends. Host a dinner party with some menu ideas we give you below. Have a great Sunday dinner with a roasted free range chicken, and or our easy method for the perfect roast eye of round or sirloin tip roast.

Meet friends at Wohlner’s: Meet friend’s for lunch at Wohlner’s Deli Café. Meet some friends for one for one of the free wine tastings then buy a bottle of wine to share and enjoy a dinner at our Deli Bistro. Meet friends for Thursday’s Wine Dinner. Just meet friends. Be proactive and start calling, emailing or texting to get the ball rolling.

Thumb Your Nose at Winter –Enjoy Time With Friends and Family

Menu and Celebration Ideas using Ad Flyer Specials this week (sale items underlined)

Racelette Cheese: Here is a hot idea for a  winter dinner party or cocktail party. Racler means “to scrape” in French, so Racelette Cheese you heat and scrape. Or in German it’s Bratchäs, or "roasted cheese." Heat the Racelette Cheese in front of your fireplace as the Swiss traditionally do, or over an electric frypan and scraped off, or slices of the cheese are heated on a skillet. Then scrape off some of the warm cheese as it softens from the heat. Serve with Wohlner’s French Bread slices, Hard Salami, steamed or boiled Yukon Gold Potatoes, hard salami, sliced ham, sliced Prosciutto, Wohlner’s Wieners, grape tomatoes, raw or poached Asparagus and Broccoli, Gherkin pickles, pickled onions and baby corn, Town House Crackers, mushrooms, etc.  Article and pictures

 Traditional Racelette Cheese Dinner at La Racelette in France

The accent in Raclette dining is on relaxed and sociable eating and drinking, the meal often running to several hours. Read more on wiki  HERE and Our blog article here. Sip white wine (Pinot Grigio/Gris, Riesling, Gruner Veitliner, Chardonnay, or Rotari Champagne or Poema Cava Brut. Check out the free wine tastings for 20% off wines. Some of you crazy people out there may want to start with a Jagermeister, or not. Warm cheese + crusty bread + warm fireplace + fine wine + great friends = a wonderful evening.

Roasted Local Free Range Chicken from Plum Creek Farm—Sunday or Weekday Supper, or your last supper meal

I made this the other night and it was so good! . Rinse and dry the whole chicken, allow it to come to nearly room temperature. Wipe it dry again, then liberally season with coarse kosher salt and coarse black pepper. Place some halved Yukon Gold Potatoes, yellow onions, and carrots in the roasting pan. Roast at 450f for about 1 hour 10 minutes. It’s done when the juices run clear when pierced inside the thigh, or when it reaches 165 to 170f. Allow to rest 10 minutes before cutting.

For a sauce skim the fat form the pan juices, deglaze the pan with a little wine and/or chicken stock. Add the defatted juices back in the roasting pan and heat to boil for a for minutes to make a wonderful sauce. Recipe

The skin was so crispy and salty. Serve with the vegetables , steamed asparagus, crusty Wohlner’s Bread, and a nice Pinot Noir or Chardonnay.

Did you YABBA DABBA DO?  If not you have another chance with Bone-in Ribeyes on sale.  Ask the butcher to cut a 2.5" or better 3" bone-in ribeye and french the bone.  Here is our blog article for Thomas Keller’s Yabba Dabba Do dinner.  Add some roasted or steamed Asparagus and Potatoes Anna with Yukon Golds.  Note the butchers may not be able cut and french that for you after 5:30pm so you should call ahead.  They will have bone-in ribeyes all open hours

 Roasted King Crab v2.0 over Asian Noodles

Check out our new recipe for spicy roast crab legs while they are on sale for just $5.99/lb.–here

Does anybody do brunch for friends at home?  

Here are some brunch ideas:

**Smoked Salmon on toasted Wohlner’s Baguette slices. Top with some crème fraiche’, fresh dill, and a few capers.

**Mixed fruit plate with Fresh Fruit from the Deli’s Grab n Go, or make your own with diced Cantaloupe, fresh raspberries, supremed oranges, diced Fuji apples tossed in lemon juice, and fresh pineapple(only $1.89 each!).  Make a light sauce with orange juice, or orange juice/lemon juice, sugar, and yogurt.

Racelette Cheese and pan fried Yukon Gold Potatoes:  Article

**Roasted King Crab Legs and Roasted Asparagus. Simply oven roast plain King Crab Legs ($5.99/lb.) and Asparagus.  Serve each with melted butter.

Baked Eggs with Proscuitto and Tomato–Mark Bittman in NYT’s  and the RECIPE.  You can prep these ahead of time and then simply bake for 12 minutes while you enjoy time with your friends. 

Baked Eggs w/ Prosciutto and Tomato

Brunch Beverages:

Italian Soda

Orange Juice

Rotari Champagne (Champagne goes especially well with Smoked Salmon.)

Rotari Champagne Mimosas (Champagne and Orange Juice)

Rotari Champagne with a Fresh Rapsberry

Strong Brewed Coffee with CoffeeMate Flavored Creamer

Maker’s Mark Maple Coffee—use our recipe for Canadian Maple Coffee but substitute Maker’s Mark

Other menu ideas for this week:

-Eye of Round Roast Method 1 and Method 2 These would also work for Sirloin Tip Roast that’s on sale. 

-Pineapple and Apple Breadpudding with Maker’s Mark Bourbon Sauce

-Oven Roasted Pineapple w/ a Snowball (A scoop of Vanilla Ice cream rolled in toasted coconut) drizzled with Chocolate Sauce

–Crab Spread using the King Crab Spears on Sale.

–Smoked Salmon Spread with the Smoked Salmon on Sale 

–Host a White Wine and Rotari Champagne Cocktail Buffet

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See you at the Thursday’s Wine Dinner and the Free Wine Tastings Weds-Sunday