Wine and Walnuts

A blog about eating, drinking, cooking and reading in the not so Deep South

Easy Pie Recipe: Four Simple Ingredients + One Lazy Saturday Afternoon = One Awesome Key Lime Pie

Kimberly Houston | May 30, 2010

Key Lime Pie ingredients

I think I found it.Â
My go-to pie recipe, that is.  And not only is this recipe easy as pie, giggle, giggle, it’s also mouth-wateringly, tangingly delicious.Â
And, you can make the thing in 20 minutes flat, enjoying your glass of wine all the while. Crazy.
The reason this discovery is so meaningful to me [...]

Wilmington NC Top Ten Chef Competion 2010

Kimberly Houston | May 10, 2010

A quick shout-out to my buddy and co-worker, Michael, who landed (again) among Wilmington’s Top Ten Chefs this year, this year making it into the Top Three . . . .Way to go, Michael!
He’s not only very, very good at what he does, he’s hands down the nicest chef I’ve ever worked with.  No drama, no bad behavior, no weirdness, no treating [...]

Rosé To Drink on a Hot Summer Night: West Cape Howe Zeepaard Rosé 2009, Western Australia

Kimberly Houston | May 7, 2010

I walked into work last Wednesday morning and spied a glass of this pretty RosĂ© sitting on the table in front of my boss (Weds is wine tasting day around the office. Ha ha, the restaurant, I mean. I would never work in an office again!!).Â
Lucky for me, she asked if I wanted to try [...]