Even though it wasn’t on our menu, Nino served an Antipasti salad. The salad was so good
I ate mine before taking a picture of it! The image above is half of Rodney’s salad.
We were also served Ravioli Truffle, home made Ravioli with black truffle sauce (not pictured).
These were paired with Barbera
Cannelloni Osso Buco
Filled veal shank in a light brown sauce
paired with
Pasqua Valpolicella
followed by
Yellow Tail Snapper Filet
paired with
Vernaccia Di San Gimignano
followed by
Pollo Contadino
Chicken breast with potato, peas, sausage, onions and peppers
The Romano’s finish their Wine & Dining Room on Saturday and Rodney hosted the Vine Dawgs Saturday night. It was the inaugural dinner for the newly remodeled dining room. How appropriate — the same place as the Vine Dawgs’ inaugural dinner in 2006! Lynnette’s dinner was awesome!
Appetizers
Shrimp Cocktail (6 whoppers! Tom B had one in his mouth when I shot this)
Paired with
Second Course
Egg plant with melted cheese and a reduction sauce—help me out here Lynnette. Delicious.
Paired with
Entrée
Lamb chops, Seared scallops, Roasted vegatables and Fingerling potatoes
Paired with
Dessert
Godiva Cheesecake
Paired with Vine Dawgs’ own Port
Dennis, Tom, Rodney and Tom
Appetizer
Goats cheese in a Maranara Sauce served with Garlic bread
Paired with
and
and
Salad
Entrée
Beef Tips with Rice and fresh green beans with sliced almonds
If you click on any of the following images, an enlarged photo will come up (click the enlarged photo and it will be giant). It’s easier to get the label information from the enlarged images.
Dennis’ Beer Can Chickens sat around telling jokes on the grill while we had cheese and crackers paired with a Bordeaux and tested our snozolas with “Le Nez Du Vin”.
Beer Can ChickenBeer Can ChickenCheese and crackers
Paired with
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Paired with
MAIN COURSE
Beer Can Chicken with Broccoli and Tomato with Artichoke hearts and olives
Paired with
DESSERT
Mocha Pot de Créme Mocha Pot de Créme
Paired with
Awww, Charlie already drank his
Thanks Dennis and Amy for a great time and a great dinner!
For Amy’s Mocha Pot de Créme recipe, click on the picture below.
I finished the wine rack by removing the drawer partitions. Joan’s happier about the crate wine rack being gone. Now she determined to switch out the artwork over the rack.
$30 wine rackNow the roofing tiles stack continuously.
I’m not sure if any of you guys remember my wine rack or not. It was recycled from the original roof tiles of my house combined with an aquarium stand. It worked fine but was outgrown when Vine Dawgs made their own wine. I even had to stack bottles in a corner.
Inspired by the Romano renovations I decided to upgrade my wine rack. Money would be no object.
I went to my favorite thrift store, World Thrift (2425 North Dixie Highway, Lake Worth) and bought an old dresser for $30.
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I stacked in the roofing tiles. There is a slight problem in that the drawers in the dresser were divided by partitions (I just expected an open frame). The problem is with the partitions is that I can’t stack the tiles exactly how I like them because I’m limited to the drawer size height. I plan to correct this in the future by gutting the partitions. I’ll leave the bottom partition (near the floor) and the partition under the top drawer. If I could stack the tiles the way I would like, the dresser could accommodate all of the tiles. The partitions caused me to have left over tiles and bottles without homes.
The solution I came up with was to take 2 of the drawers and fashion a crate by knocking the bottom out of one of the drawers and placing it in front of the other drawer. When I stacked in the roofing tiles inside, the pressure caused by the weight of the tiles strengthened the drawers into a crate-like wine rack. Then I just laid a scrap piece of wood on top.
The drawer partitions caused me to not have a continous stack as in the next image.
With a repurposed dresser and recycled roofing tiles (each tile is embossed with April 8, 1924), I was able to save money and be green to the environment. The aquarium stand will now be repurposed into a plant stand for Joan. Now I can move this off my project list and add it to my “finish project later” list.
No nails, screws or tools needed.
The lesson of this story is “Be cheap with your wine rack – not your wine.
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