Decided today to go through a few of the wine and food ideas that come to me living in this area, where i am minutes away from a bustling main road with wine and food from all over the world.

With wines; i often dont know what i'm looking for ... i tend to judge by price; label; name; and 'feel'.  Also i am older and wiser and more importantly aware of my body's falibilities; so between the lines i dont indulge.  My drinking is moderate; i enjoy red and white wine, and champagne - so i have just been to the wine store and bought a bottle of each of the wines; and a pack of small champagne bottles - i think they're called piccolo.

Today's wine i choose because his Dad perfected it in the year i was born; it also got Green Award and is Spanish.  I'm sure the plastic bull that hangs off the label didnt influence me choosing it!  They are the Torres Family.  I'm hoping this half-glass puts me into a small sleep :-)

In the food category, i've recently started buying frozen berries.  They are quite cheap and i put a handful from each pack - at the moment blackberries, raspberries and mixed; in a bowl and cover it with a plate or something (dont like plastic wrap) and then add something like maple syrup (a natural sugar) and by dinner time add yoghurt and voila dessert!   It makes sense as often the 'fresh' ones have mouldy ones cos they have been on the display for a few days.  

What i found surprising is that the berries are imported yet it is such a simple process; pick, pack, freeze!

For tomorrow's dessert I am going to make the ends of my home-made bread into a bread-and-butter pudding.... so instead of photographing the ends of this particular loaf i'll wait until it's in the pudding.