Wine around the world

Cravings make us eat foods that are not on the plan, foods we do not want to eat. Well…, when we are rational, we don’t want to eat them. When craving them, it is all we can think about.

Chocolate. Bread. Soda. Dessert. French fries.

Salt. Fat. Sugar. Alcohol.

It seems we are wired to crave these things and not broccoli, spinach, and kale. Why is that? What is really going on in our bodies?

I read a bit about what to do when you have a craving, but once I get one it is all over, too late for me. Once it takes hold, nothing short of crossing an ocean will keep me from eating what I want.

The trick for me is to eliminate the craving in the first place. One theory is that it is a lack of complete nutrition that causes our cravings. So logically, the way to avoid cravings is to get some good nutrients coursing through our veins. The problem is, if you just ate your daily caloric allotment on some crave-induced binge, are you really going to seek out a meal of good stuff? No. So, what to do?

Supplement!

You say you already take vitamins daily? Good for you. Are you getting all the minerals you need? –Hmm, not likely. Most of the mineral supplements commercially available are incomplete. Your mineral deficit could be the source of your cravings. Let look at some known mineral caused cravings:

If you crave chocolate, what you really want is magnesium from raw nuts and seeds, legumes, fruits.

If you crave sweets, what you really want is chromium, carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus from broccoli, calves liver, cranberries, horseradish, cruciferous vegetables, kale, cabbage.

If you crave oily or fatty foods, what you really want is calcium from mustard and turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame.

Yum????

Not so much. There is an easier way. How do I know? I get all these necessities taken care of with a daily shot of nutrients. Amazingly, it works. No cravings makes it easier to eat the way I truly want to eat. So what is it?

I take a tasty liquid supplement which supports my health, gives me energy to do the things I love, and helps me stick to my eating plan. Go here to learn more: http://kcs.vemma.com/vemma/

i’m moving out of my place in bishan…and i must say, i’m a little annoyed at how abrupt the notice was. oh well…i’ve started to throw away shit i don’t really need, and would take up space at my new place…up first, the bottles of 2009! what memories there were!

more soon.

2008 Les Galopieres Pouilly-Fuissé

Appellation: Pouilly-Fuissé

Tasting Notes: 13% AVB.  Straw colored. Subtle nose, some melon, pear, green apple, a hint of butter.  Apple, pear, melon, and citrus all on the palate along with a nutty flavor, very smooth, complex flavors, everything works together without any one standing out.  I had a lot of trouble coming up with what the flavors even are, they all work so well together.  Excellent acid.  Mouth watering.  Long finish.  Very subtle and pleasant oak.  Wonderful wine.

Rating: 4/5, 16/20, 91/100

Price: $19.99 Beltway Fine Wine

A note on ratings:  I use the 100 point rating for Cellartracker, even though my palate is still developing.  As a statistics geek, I know that the variability in scores works itself out as the number of scores increases.  However, my score may not be yours, or Robert Parker’s.  I much prefer to use a 5 point (or star, or whatever you want to call it) scale, as it more represents my reaction to wine, which is more simple than a 100 point scale represents.  I like the 20 point scale as the more detailed score.   On this site, I will provide all three, although the most meaningful are the 5 and 20 point ratings.

Wine merupakan program aplikasi di operasi sistem linux yang berfungsi untuk menjalankan program berbasis windows di sistem berbasis unix. Ini adalah proyek GNU (dibaca guh-noo). Menurut developernya:

“wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows”

klo artikel sebelumnya kopete hukumnya makruh, nah sekarang wine justru lebih parah lagi, hukumnya haram. heheheh

untuk install langsung dari linux, caranya cukup mudah.

ketik : sudo apt-get install wine

Mudah sekali bukan, Klo begitu selamat mencoba aplikasi windows di linux

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Congratulation to Belinda Woolley

Belinda’s name was randomly drawn and she is the winner of Chris Chameleon Tickets for this weekend’s show in Wellington.

OOHHH we had a great day today visiting the vineyard and cellar at Sirromet Lifestyle winery, situated only 30 minutes SE of Brisbane, and 10 kms inland from Moreton Bay.   They hold some great events here on a regular basis, the last one being on Australia Day when Ronan Keating and Tina Arena performed within the grounds.  The next scheduled event features Tom Jones, towards the end of February.  It’s a very civilized place to be. http://www.sirromet.com/

On arrival we had our customary coffee and carrot cake before a tour of the winery.

During the wine tasting session to follow, we were given eight different wines to try, which went down very well with our cheese and antipasto platter….WHAT??  Hey, somebody’s got to do it…it might as well be me …. Cheers everyone!

…hic…ooops, completely forgot to write Postcard 58/90 but managed to remember later in the day, after a little snooze.

Our first evening in Macau, we were still getting our bearings and didn’t want to head across the bridge into Macau proper – it’s a pricey cab trip and the buses had all but stopped by the time we found our hotel – so we wandered around the trendy/tourist area on the mainland side of Macau (the city itself is an island). The restaurant we finally decided on was tucked away in the back streets, but was said to be a bastion of traditional dishes according to the Lonely Planet we had with us, so we stopped it. There were famillies tucking into various dishes, so it seemed good to us. We immediately ordered a bottle of green wine (see note at the end for more on this) and perused the menu, ordering a bunch of dishes and waiting to see what we got.

Delicious fresh baked bread quickly arrived to help us await our orders. First up was the goat cheese – salty, but tasty. They apparently make it themselves here. There was a fair amount of the cheese, and this dish didn’t end up getting finished until the end of the meal. Too much food!

The cheese was shortly followed by the green soup (caldo verde). This is a very traditional dish here and can be found at almost any Macanese/Portuguese restaurant. I have to say we were less than impressed overall. I’m sure it was done well, but an oily-creamy broth with cooked green leafy vegetables and a piece of sausage in it just doesn’t hold as much sway when I see what else is done here. I understand it’s traditional, and it seemed to be quite popular, but this was the first and last time we ordered it. It wasn’t unpleasant, it was just very plain. It did make a nice dip for the bread, though.

Next came pasteis de bacalhau – fried cod balls. These were very tasty – cod is a specialty here and they do wonderful things with it. Freshly fried with lots of fish, these did not last very long on the table. No spices were used, but they weren’t needed – the cod is nice here. Not full of rich flavours, but it’s better than the tasteless whitefish you get in some places in Asia.

We were starting to feel a little full when the gargantuan dish of acorda de marisco arrived. This dish, whose translation I forget exactly, consists of seafood (and lots of it!), sauce, olives, mashed bread, and a raw egg on top to, well, top it all off. I think it might be giant bread seafood casserole, though it tasted like seafood stuffing. This dish is a meal for two by itself; being made of bread, it fills you right up without any need for soup or cheese or fried fish beforehand. It was a delight to eat, we were just so full by the end that we couldn’t even finish the entire thing. The sauce is a cream sauce and is mostly cooked into the bread – there’s no liquid in the dish at all. Again, not a lot of strong spicing (to my memory), but it didn’t need it. Everything this dish required was already in it. This was a traditional dish I could stand behind. Unfortunately, we had a lot to try and only a little time, so we never got to order this dish again, but I still think of it as my favourite Portuguese dish in Macau.

One of the best reasons for visiting Macau is the plethora of good wine. A steady stream of Portuguese wine makes its way into this city and into the tummies of residents and visitors. Nowadays, there’s a large selection of wines from all over the world in the grocery stores, but almost every restaurant has, in addition to these international vintages, what’s known as green wine (vino verde – it’s in the goat cheese picture). I’d heard of it before coming here, but I’d never had the opportunity to try it. It’s not actually green (as I had secretly hoped) – more of a pale straw yellow, though sometimes it’s put in a very slightly bluish bottle. I’m sure this is to enhance the green image.

The taste is quite fresh and light – if I remember correctly, it’s not typically aged a lot. It’s wonderful in the Macau summer heat to sit down with a bottle of this stuff. It’s truly delicious and it goes well with a lot of the food served here – no new flavour creations, but nothing unpleasant. We drank a fair amount without food, though. Of course, there are bottles for all price ranges – from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars – though oddly enough, we had to go to a specialty/tourist store – the local grocery store had lots of international wines, but nothing that you drank locally. Everything was from France and the US and so on. Weird. Regardless of what is at the grocery store, if you find yourself in Macau, you must absolutely have a bottle or three on a hot afternoon. It wouldn’t be Macanese to skip this nectar.