Probably the least exciting part of making wine. This is where I lost part of my allure to making my own wine. After 10 days, I checked the wine and measured the gravity. To ensure it’s stability it had to read the same gravity level two days in a row. To pick up all the …
Happy New Year! Since I just started this blog, I’m going to include some earlier food adventures from the month of December. But I’m hoping to make this entry a weekly event. Tasty Triumphs Creamy shrimp bites (these don’t have a real name…I stole the recipe from my mom). This is one of my favorite appetizers …
One winter day the boys and I decided we needed an adventure. So off we went to Stevens Pass to Skyline Lake. It was only a couple miles and started off relatively steep for snowshoeing, but it was a good workout. There was quite a bit of snow so the Lake just looked like a …
So after a week, we (minus Meghan because she’s too busy getting sunburned in New Zealand – plus my friend Sam, who was visiting from Texas) checked the wine to make sure it had reached the correct gravity. Opening the container was an interesting experience…it didn’t smell fantastic, but at least we knew the yeast …