Here’s a recipe for Pulled Pork that I just tried and it was quite delicious. It was given to me by Ruby Lang at work. She based her recipe from Nancy Walker’s recipe on the Stephen & Walker Trust Winery site. The wasabi slaw recipe is my own creation that I came up with after some experimentation. The wasabi gives it a little kick that I like. You’ll need to start this recipe the day before your event for it to be ready. It takes time but it’s worth it.
I started to write this article several times in the past, but usually ended up deleting it. My sense of propriety told me that it’s not the way to change behaviors. Lately, however, it seems that in order to bring something like this to light, I need to lower my standards of decorum to the level of those I’m addressing.
“I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” That’s what the character Howard Beale said in the movie, Network. He said that after talking about how bad the state of the world was. That movie was made 34 years ago, and sadly, not much has changed. We still have a depression, people are still losing their jobs, and we have a different kind of oil crisis. And instead of the Russians to blame for our woes, now it’s the Chinese. Something else has changed though, and it has been so gradual that most people have overlooked it or grown accustomed to it. Some people have developed a misplaced sense of entitlement or maybe an over-developed self-esteem. Known in the vernacular simply as assholes or jerks, they somehow believe they are above everyone else and society’s norms and mores don’t apply to them. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s a couple of examples from recent incidents in my life.
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This past Monday, I attended another Healdsburg Food & Wine Club dinner hosted by Dan Lucia of DL Catering. If you live in the area and you’ve never been to one of these events, you really need to get yourself up here to the Tayman Park Golf Course. The venue is right next door to the golf pro shop.
Dinners are served family style and the cost is $30 including your corkage. There’s almost always more food than you could ever want and each month a different local winery pours tastes of their current or soon-to-be-released wines. Dan generally has a theme for each dinner and suggests a wine to bring to pair with the food. Want to know more? Watch the video and see how much fun these dinners can be or check out the DL Catering fan page on Facebook.
