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Grilled Teriyaki Salmon - Sweet Barbecue Kabobs - Wine Choice 4 salmon steaks, about 1" thick 1/2 cup soy sauce 1/2 cup sweet sherry 1/4 sugar In a medium saucepan, combine soy sauce, sherry & sugar and bring to a boil, stirring repeatedly. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened. This will take about 10 minutes. Line the grill with a lightly oiled piece of aluminum foil. Brush salmon with soy sauce mixture and grill about 2 minutes. Turn the salmon over and brush with more of the soy sauce mixture. Continue cooking until fish is browned, about 3-4 minutes. Brush with the remaining soy sauce mixture and serve. Serves 4 2 cups pineapple chunks 1 large green pepper, cut into chunks 1 large red pepper, cut into chunks 1/2 cup of your favorite Barbecue Sauce 4 tbsp. orange juice Thread pineapple alternately with red and green peppers onto skewers. Mix barbecue sauce and juice; brush on kabobs. Grill 8-10 minutes, brushing occasionally with remaining sauce. Makes 4 kabobs I knew just what I wanted this time: Pinot Noir. The problem was that I had none in the rack under the stairs when the time came. I ran down to the wine store, promising myself again I would not let that happen next time. There the wine salesman and I talked tastes and weights as he steered me up and down the aisle. One problem was obvious. In the wake of the Sideways movie, wine stores are stocking a lot of Pinot Noir. Probably a lot of it is very drinkable, but the sheer number of choices makes selection difficult. The wine guy had several excellent suggestions. The Archery Summit 2003 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir would have been good, I am sure, but was a little above what I wanted to spend. The Argyle Winery Willamette Valley 2003 Pinot Noir Nuthouse promised to be as good or better, but seemed just a bit too high as well. (These wines were $30-40.) Sensing my resistance, the salesman dropped to the low end. Here he had wines like Smoking Loon Pinot Noir and Blackstone Winery Pinot Noir. Both are good enough in their place, widely available, and reasonably priced: under $10 in this store. Both are mass marketed by their owners (Ironstone for Smoking Loon and Constellation for Blackstone). But I had just had the Smoking Loon at the house of the people coming for dinner and so, naturally, I wanted to serve something a bit different. That put me in the great middle. Lots of wines, running from about $12 to $25, and I saw none I had a good feeling for, none I could really remember tasting. So the salesman and I talked some more, and I came down to two: the Benton Lane 2004 Pinot Noir and the 2003 Saintsbury Pinot Noir Carneros. Both were in the $17-20 range. I bought bottles of each, and there lay my new dilemma. I decided I was only going to serve the Saintsbury, although I thought the Benton Lane would be fine as well. I had heard good things about the winery. I could say I chose the Saintsbury because it was a 2003 instead of a 2004 and that would be partially true. The real reason I chose the Saintsbury for company, though, is that the 2004 Benton Lane is a screw-cap bottle. That might be foolish. We tried one of the Benton Lane bottles, and we decided to make it our Wine of the Month for July, although a little time will not hurt it. The Saintsbury ended up fine with the meal, so I guess this trip was a winner! Grilled Teriyaki Salmon - Sweet Barbecue Kabobs - Wine Choice |
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Last modified: August 07, 2007 |
