I have one of the best jobs in the world!  As "Dave the Wine Merchant" I taste thousands of wine every year. Eliminating the vast majority, I introduce the lucky few to members of my online wine sampling club.  Of the thousands I taste, only about sixty will make it to that year's "Wine Discoveries"

But how can one love wine without loving food, and vice versa?  I simply don't think it's possible.  So as an avid home chef for over 30 years, I enjoy home-testing recipes to share with our club members.  Each recipe must not only be good and easily prepared at home in an average kitchen (well, a foodie's kitchen) they must showcase the specific wines going out to members in their next shipment.

For more recipes or wine information, go to www.sidewayswineclub.com 

Soooo many!!  But here are a few that come to mind:

• Mariner's Mussels
• Slow-cooked pulled pork
• Lamb burgers with balsamic onions and crumbled goat cheese
• A perfect omelette 
• Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes! (my Celtic roots?)
• Braised anything
• Ribolita
• Home-made Agnolotti
• Duck confit in or on just about anything
• A perfectly roasted chicken, hot or cold

Now I'm hungry... see you later.