A Case of This & A Bottle of That

 It's Friday ... are you ready for the weekend?

We Are ... We Are

So Read On!

 Julep is looking good but will look even better

after the appointment with the groomer next week.

Ring ... Ring ... It's The Phone 

After I fed the westies breakfast the phone

rang and it was Town & Country Liquors calling

to say the case of wine I ordered was in.

OH BOY ... LET THE PARTY BEGIN!

A little history on how we discovered Pere et Fils. 

We enjoyed 2 bottles of this particular wine at 

dinner with Laura & Cary.  They suggested we try it

and we feel in love with it!

 Laurent Miquel is a French wine & is not a wine stocked

(meaning on the shelves) in our local liquor stores

so it had to be special ordered for us.

We ordered 1 case & Laura & Cary ordered 2 cases.

 It's a very nice everyday dinner wine for under $10/bottle.

 Our kitchen wine refrigerator is full but we do

have a 500 bottle wine refrigerator in Wilson's

office for extra wine storage.

 Derby watching me put away the wine.

You'll understand the 'dairy' comment in the last post.

Don't worry ... Derby's not drunk.

 Who can walk into a liquor store and JUST

pick up what they order and walk out?  I personally can't!

So while I was waiting for our lunch sandwiches

to be made from their deli section I started

to check out all the shelves full of beautiful

bottles.  In the vodka section I spotted the new

Chambord flavored vodka.

 I wanted a bottle - the costs $24.00

  A premium French vodka with infused

flavor of real black raspberries.

Chambord Flavored Vodka delivers the floral

aromatics of the hibiscus flower with notes of vanilla,

white chocolate and the distinctive flavor of the

original Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur.

Visit www.chambordonline.com for

recipes to these [as well as other summer] drinks.

FRENCH SPARKLE

FRENCH GINGER ALE

PARISIAN SUNRISE 

CHAMBORD ON THE ROCKS

KORBEL KRUSH

 ... NOW I DID A REALLY BAD THING ...

 Out of the corner of my eye I saw a small freezer

next to the deli case full of 

The Scottish Highland Creamery ice cream.

THIS - IS - REAL - ICE - CREAM

and it's sinfully delicious.  When you

eat this you might as well toss out any thought of

how many thousands of calories are in each spool full.

There are over 600 known flavors and

what's available is at the whim of the owner.

ABOUT THE OWNER

Ice Cream is Victor Barlow's passion.

Victor grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland and 

lived above an Italian ice cream parlor, Mr. Boni's,

that dated back to 1907. He began working there

 at age 15 and later became the shop's manager,

the only person outside of the family bloodline to

learn the secret family ice cream recipes.

Victor and his wife, Susan, take great pride in making

the freshest ice cream using local ingredients,

fresh milk, cream and flavorings imported from Italy.

Of course the westies wanted a taste of the

ice cream & I said 'no'.

Dogs do not process dairy in their systems

{cheese of course falls into this category}.

At some point I may give them a lick off

the spoon {minus the oreo cookie}, but that's it.

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND

and

HAVE AN OLD FASHION ICE CREAM CONE

WITH SPRINKLES ON IT FOR ME.