I'm very spoiled to have good friends with a wide range of talents and professions, and thankfully sometimes I get to share in some cool events because of it. Two of my close friends in NYC are culinary school graduates, and when combined with a couple guys who happen to love good wine, I got to enjoy a really fun Italian themed wine tasting party. Since I'm in with the chefs, I went with them a bit early to help prepare some of the food...my contributions were mostly limited to sauteing and stirring, but I didn't ruin anything, so I'll count that as a success.
Ema preparing the polenta in small pieces to be the base for spiced pork
Setting the table of food
Pork and Polenta bites
Our host actually came up with this idea for "Italian Sushi" using prosciutto as a wrap, mushroom risotto as the rice, and asparagus for a little crunch and color inside...I highly recommend these.
Enjoying some food before tasting the wines
Me, Carolyn and Ema
Me with the Chefs!
The very important scoring sheets...we tried our best...
Pouring wine from the bottle hidden with a paper bag...not to be at all influenced by labels
The scoring sheets proved to require a bit too much concentration for some
And we finished off the evening with some ricotta cheesecake and individual tiramisu bowls (with homemade ladyfingers of course)
I had never been to a themed wine tasting party like this, but definitely a really fun evening and something we'll all try to do again...perhaps I'll have to bring this idea back to Austria and try a different region of wine and food and see how it goes!
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