wine

While a slew of birthdays bunched together can be tough on the wallet, they can also be a great excuse for a backyard BBQ. We used it to try out some of our favourite recipes

There was a great blog post on drinking by Sarah Treleaven last week — I’ve got admire a gal with the courage to admit she enjoys a good drink, and often! My husband and I fall into the same camp — we love wine. At night, after the kids are in bed, we both enjoy a glass while we cook together. It’s a time to relax, bond and talk over the events of the day.

On Mother’s Day, I decided to host my first lunch party at my house. This is because I felt like being a “good” daughter, my mother deserves it, and my brothers weren’t stepping up to the plate. I was scared out of my mind.

The Cheater coq au vin recipe caught my eye as a great dish to prepare for Mother’s Day. The picture looked lovely and any recipe with a French name has to be good. Think about it, you know I’m right. Plus, the word ‘Cheater’ in the title meant two things to me: 1) that there was something about the original non-cheater recipe that increased its level of preparation difficulty and that 2) this level of difficulty had been removed in the ‘cheater’ version and, likely, the consumer of the dish would be none the wiser.

Ms. Chatelaine for the month of May, Alejandra de Miguel, owner of Vintage One Wines, a bespoke winery in Toronto, talks about her family legacy and Argentinian wine pedigree.