Shaz by the Sea

Here are two more meals to add to the list! I thought my previous blog post was getting a little long, so I decided to separate it into two posts. Here is a recap of a stuffed zucchini boat (with side of cavatappi pasta) and a chicken dish on top of  a delicious creamy spaghetti squash. 1. STUFFED ZUCCHINI AND WINE TASTING!! We originally planned to make stuffed zucchini boats - then decided to add some pasta to the side - which we tossed with the leftover meat sauce that we used to stuff the zucchinis.  We all had different red wines, so we decided to have an impromptu wine tasting to compare/contrast all the different flavors!  We started with a Sangiovese, then a Malbec, and ended with a Cab Sav. We talked about the different flavors, the different acidities, and different colors/tones/tannins. It was fun! 2. CREAMY SPAGHETTI SQUASH WITH CHICKEN My friend Katie basically made this dinner entirely herself, so I don't know exactly what she...

For my February 2013 post, my theme is inadvertently hearts and love which is perfect ... In early Feb, Jimbo and I did our first 5K together called the "Love Mud Run" in California.  It was the weekend of Valentine's Day in the wine country area of Temecula, CA.  We are by no means 'runners' but it was super fun to run through a wine vineyard, up massive dirt hills all with about 10 gallons of mud in our sneaks.  The best part of the race was the wine tasting post-race at Callaway Vineyards. We ended up staying the weekend and met up with Jim's Aunt and Uncle from New Hampshire.     A week or two later, we spent the weekend up in SF for Jim's Moot Court competition at the Federal Courthouse (backstory: Jimbo is currently finishing up his last semester at Loyola Law School in LA).  We took the ferry over to Sausalito which was a quaint and adorable area of CA I never knew existed ( http://www.sausalito.com/ ).  Shou...