Erin James

Cooking with Sip: Wine Marinated Beef Skewers with Vindulge

It is officially the season of the grill! Grab your favorite bottle of Oregon red wine and fire up the grill — Vindulge's new cookbook, "Fire + Wine," has 75 smoke-infused recipes from the grill — with perfect wine pairings — including this crowd-pleaser of wine...

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Recipe: White Wine-Steamed Clams

This easy tutorial guides you on how to make white-wine steamed clams from Washington's Hama Hama Co. using Tocai Friulano from Oregon's Cooper Mountain Vineyards! https://youtu.be/YY_zV2dHU8Y This easy tutorial guides you on how to make white-wine steamed clams from...

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cider cocktails

Shake Up NYE with Cider Cocktails

Move over, Champagne — make way for cider cocktails this New Year’s Eve! To help us in this campaign, we enlisted the cider-happy forces of Blake’s Hard Cider in Armada, Michigan, to shake and swizzle up a few house-made tipples in the name of cider. “As New Year's...

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7 Festive Cider Cocktails for Christmas

Or Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and any other nonsecular holiday to get festive for! These seven cider cocktails came from our test bar and are now gifted to you just in time for you to regift them for the remaining days of the holiday season. Cheers!   Rosemary Refresher...

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lotta fit

Recipe: Crooked City Cider’s Lotta Fit & Ginger

Better known as the San Francisco Favorite, this cocktail is named in honor of the historic Bay Area import, Lotta Crabtree, who was once the highest paid female performer in America. In this variation from Crooked City Cider Tap House, the finessed delight features...

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tapas

Recipe: Cazuela de Chorizos à la Sidra

Brighten up your fall menu with warm-weather tapas pairings from sunny Spain. These sidras range from deeply traditional dry farmhouse choices to lighter, more modern canned options that are perfect for sipping on the nearest beach or back porch. If you've seen the...

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gather round punch

Recipe: Gather ‘Round Punch with Apple Brandy

When a chill starts to creep into the air, a hot cider drink is just what’s needed to warm fingers and toes. Opt for off-dry or sweetened ciders to build these toasty sippers, or stick to nonalcoholic sweet cider and save the bone-dry sparklers to enjoy another time....

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pear salad

Recipe: Aerlume’s Pear Salad + Dragon’s Head Perry

It might have been a croissant in Paris that convinced Chef Maggie Trujillo to don the white jacket and sharpen her knives, but it was the pear in Washington state that inspired this seasonal recipe. Simple ingredients and easy-to-learn cheffing techniques — a...

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Cider Women Launches Friday

Cider Women, the new pan-industry and consumer group designed to champion the role of women in cider, will have its official launch on 4 October at the preview of the Women & the Art of Cider exhibition at the Museum of Cider, Hereford. The aim is to raise the...

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Cocktail Recipe: Pimm’s Cider featuring Stem Ciders

Drinking light and low is all the rage right now. Lower in alcohol, sessionable but with all the same flavor as a high-octane beverage, low-proof cocktails — also known as shims — often rely on liqueurs, bitters and fortified wines to keep the alcohol content down....

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