Another short video that I recently published on my YouTube channel : cooking chicken with orzo pasta. The recipe comes once again from the excellent blog « View from the back » and can be found here :
This is an easy and excellent meal, gourmet with the little add on at the end : some truffle oil, that takes the recipe to the next level. One of our favorite recipes. I cook it on a regular basis now and even made it in our AirBnB while traveling in Brittany recently — without the truffle oil though as I didn’t have any in my rental. This was still excellent but the truffle oil is the little twist that takes the recipe from excellent to above and beyond.
When I travel to France I usually bring back truffle oil (made in Italy actually) from a local French gourmet shop. In the US I can now also find truffle oil at Trader’s Joe.
This wine review was published previously on my blog and can be found here :
I had read good things about this Allan Scott Sauvignon Blanc on LifesVoyager’s blog, and it was available at my usual wine store, Stirling Fine Wines in New Jersey for $16. LifesVoyager’s post can be read here : https://lifesvoyagercom.wordpress.com/2023/07/11/two-summertime-whites/
Allan Scott Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough New Zealand 2022
Very pale yellow with pale translucent rim. No legs.
Nose : apple, citrus, herbal like angelica or artemisia (armoise / wormwood), a tad of anise-like scent. Very herbal but in the angelica/artemisia type of flavored herbs.
In mouth : crisp and fresh, very clean taste, green apple, citrus like lemon and also ruby grapefruit. A bit fizzy at first. Very light and pleasant to drink. A good summer wine or any season as far as I’m concerned.
Then after the green apple taste, some herbs (not the ones from the nose though). Very pleasant dry crisp and fresh wine for a very decent price here in the US ($16 and it’s imported). Some lime zest in the end of mouth, ruby grapefruit comes back at the end.
I enjoyed it a lot, a nice change from the other white wines even Sauvignon Blanc from elsewhere because it’s so light and fresh to drink.
After tasting we paired it with chicken orzo, another excellent recipe from Sheree from the blog View from the back, another of her recipes that has become one of our favorites. The recipe can be found here on her blog : https://viewfromtheback.com/2023/08/19/the-musette-chicken-orzo/
This chicken orzo is sprinkled with truffle oil as per Sheree’s recommendations and my ! does it get the recipe to another level !
Allan Scott Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough New Zealand 2022
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