So when I made the dish listed in the previous post, my wife blurted out that mushrooms would have made it even better. I then said to her,
to bad you're not into Marsala wine sauce, to which she informed me that it was one of her favorite things to order in Italian restaurants. Which is funny, because I can't really recall her ordering anything with that sauce in the twenty plus years I've been with her. But that being said, it infused me with such fervor that the next day I went to a liquor store and purchased a bottle of Florio Sweet Marsala wine.
So tonight we had Chicken with Mushroom Marsala sauce and the same vegetable as listed above. But what also made this meal fantastic was a bottle of wine, that twenty years ago in my wine snob days, I'd have never touched. About 10 years ago, my wife came home with this
New York varietal, which I looked upon with scorn. But after tasting it, I was hooked. It's a table wine with Riesling sweetness, but also the crispness of a Sauvignon blanc. My old wine snob friends would look upon me with derision for drinking such a pedestrian wine, but screw them, it tastes great! If you can find it, I highly recommend it, and what puts the cherry on top is that it sells for about $9 a bottle. They also make a wonderful, fruit forward
table red that it it not only fantastic to drink, but cooks well too.