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Coconut Shrimp Recipe

with Apricot Pineapple Dipping Sauce – Spinach Salad – Rice Pilaf with Pine Nuts

Pair with Covey Run Pinot Grigio 2006 (review)

Coconut Shrimp Ingredients

1 – 25 to 30 count bag of frozen peed and deveined Jumbo Shrimp thawed
2 cups – Panko Japanese Bread Crumbs
¼ cup – Pineapple/Apricot Horseradish Sauce
½ cup – Pineapple Preserves
1 cup – Shredded Sweet Coconut
¼ cup – Flour
¼ cup – Canola Oil
¼ teaspoon – Allspice
¼ teaspoon Kosher Salt
2 – Large Eggs

Rice Pilaf Ingredients

1 bag Uncle Ben’s 90sec microwaveable Rice Pilaf
2 tablespoons – Pine Nuts

Deluxe Spinach Salad Ingredients

10oz Bag Washed & Rinsed Baby Spinach
3 – Boiled Eggs
2 – Plum Tomatoes
3 – tablespoons real crumbled/shredded bacon bits (on salad dressing aisle).
½ cup – Kraft Caesar Vinaigrette with Parmesan dressing & marinade
1 cup – Herb Seasoned Salad Croutons

Prepare Salad

Thinly slice 2 tomatoes
Coarsely chop 2 boiled eggs
(set above aside)
Finely chop one boiled egg
Put finely chopped egg into bottom of salad bowl
Add spinach (pinch off stems if you want)
When Ready to Serve… add dressing and toss. Add bacon crumbles layered over top followed by coarse chopped eggs and sliced tomatoes. Top with salad croutons.
Serve

Prepare Coconut Shrimp

Add two large eggs to bowl and whisk
Add Panko Bread Crumbs, Coconut, Allspice & Kosher Salt to shallow bowl & mix well
Add Flour to medium bowl.
Coat shrimp one or two at a time in flour – dip in egg – dredge in bread crumb mixture coating evenly and put in shallow bowl.
Warm skillet or deep frying pan for 2 minutes. Add ¼ cup Canola oil.
Set to medium or medium high heat and add shrimp.
Cook 4 minutes per side until golden brown & done.
Place shrimp on plate covered with a layer of paper towels.

Prepare Rice Pilaf

Follow direction on package to make Uncle Bens rice pilaf. Put in serving bowl add pine nuts, mix well.

Horseradish Sauce

Add ¼ cup horseradish sauce to microwaveable bowl.
Add ½ cup pineapple preserves mix well.
When ready to serve place in microwave & heat 11/2 to 2 minutes. Stir well and serve over shrimp or on the side as a dipping sauce.

Finished Dish

Enjoy,

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Finally finished watching “Sideways” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideways perfect flick for a nice bottle of wine (or two) and black truffle cheese – http://www.bothwellcheese.com/cheese_and_wine_pairings.php

Sterling’s Vintner’s Collection Pinot Noir Central Coast 2006 is a perfect match and won’t break the bank (review coming soon). Good film, great cheese & great wine!

You gotta love this pairing! Pinot Noir, Black Truffle Cheese and Sideways The full meal deal lol

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Ahhh the joys of wine blogging…

Waking up and thinking of what wine to review today? What dinner would pair nicely with your selection?

Going to the market to gather everything and finally sitting down at the table with the family, maybe some friends to taste and evaluate the days selection along with a nice meal.

Later basking in the warm glow of a few glasses, taking some pictures for the post and settling in with your last glass of wine to review it.
That is the fun part and likely the most rewarding part.  Turning on some friends and a few (very few for now) readers to a nice inexpensive wine and meal to go with it.

This blog is for the average wine drinker that picks up a bottle at the supermarket not really knowing if it’s going to be good or go well with dinner. They do know that they do not want to spend more than $10 for the bottle.

This blogs for you! As is the main site Frugal Wine Review that is still getting fleshed out.

Starting out you have aspirations of getting noticed by the influencer’s in the wine blogosphere. Maybe due to your unique style or view point. You begin with a hastily designed website and blog, a matching twitter account, facebook page, spattering of reviews at snooth & corkd. Join wine blogging groups and the Open Wine Consortium.

Don’t fool yourself though. It will take a lot more than these meager beginnings to get “noticed”. Being a web designer and involved in other areas, I’m used to lots of traffic, high page ranks, first page of Google spots and money from sites.

Put all that behind you if you have that type of background. Unless you are a professional writer for the wine niche and extremely knowledgeable, it will be a long road to any sort of profit.

So…

Do it for the love of wine and your particular passion. That is what I will be doing here. Bringing basic knowledge, cheap good wines and killer wine tours to everyday folks from a Frugal Point of View.

If your interested in your own blog I recommend the Thesis theme (if you know your way around wordpress). If not I will be designing a free wine blogger wordpress theme for those that want to blog just for fun. Stay tuned it will be available soon.

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
- Galileo Galilei

Cheers,

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