Monday, December 13, 2010
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Retire to Mexico: Tortillas
Retire to Mexico: Tortillas: "Tortillas, there isn't much more Mexican at the table than the tortillas. The tortillas have been around for thousands of Years. I have no i..."
Retire to Mexico: How to remove wine stains.
Retire to Mexico: How to remove wine stains.: "Imagine that you are hosting a party for some of your best friends. The atmosphere is bubbling with the excitement of everyone chatting and ..."
Retire to Mexico: How to Have a Wine & Cheese Party
Retire to Mexico: How to Have a Wine & Cheese Party: "Anytime is the right time for Wine Lovers to host a Wine and Cheese paring. There are no Wine Lovers Secrets, once you have selected the win..."
How to Have a Wine & Cheese Party
Anytime is the right time for Wine Lovers to host a Wine and Cheese paring. There are no Wine Lovers Secrets, once you have selected the wines and the cheeses that you plan to serve.
Perhaps the first choice would be to select your wines. The actual amount should be figured at one bottle per guest. This is the total, not each, therefore you want a half bottle of white and a half bottle of red per guest.
Once you have selected the wines to fit the budget, you can make a trip to the local cheese shop to pick up some cheese. Here it is suggested you purchase a quarter pound (4 oz.) per guest, total.
A nice paring could included some, if not all of the following.
Port goes well with walnuts and Stilton Cheese
Sauvignon Blanc or Pouilly Fume with a mild goat cheese
Amcore with Gorgonzola cheese
Cabernet Savigon with chedder
Brunello di Montcleins with chunks of fresh Parmesan cheese,
Sauternes with a nice Roqueford,
Young Merlot with Brie
We do not recommend crackers being served with the cheese as most crackers have their own flavors that can distract from both the cheese and the wine. We recommend that you purchase some fresh baked breads, such as country white, wheat and a nice country style sour dough. Slice these and cut them into small squares. Place these on a small plate next to each wine, with perhaps some grapes or fresh figs. These breads can be used to "clear the pallet" before trying the next wine.
Arrange the table according to the following guide;
White before red
Light before heavy
Dry before sweet, and
simple before complex, richly flavored wines.
The above is a general guide and not hard and fast rules. If you have crackers that you enjoy, by all means use them. Wine can be much more enjoyable when it is an adventure. There are 1000's of different wines and 100's of different cheeses, so made it a "discovery party" and maybe hold them monthly, trying something different each time.
Perhaps the first choice would be to select your wines. The actual amount should be figured at one bottle per guest. This is the total, not each, therefore you want a half bottle of white and a half bottle of red per guest.
Once you have selected the wines to fit the budget, you can make a trip to the local cheese shop to pick up some cheese. Here it is suggested you purchase a quarter pound (4 oz.) per guest, total.
A nice paring could included some, if not all of the following.
Port goes well with walnuts and Stilton Cheese
Sauvignon Blanc or Pouilly Fume with a mild goat cheese
Amcore with Gorgonzola cheese
Cabernet Savigon with chedder
Brunello di Montcleins with chunks of fresh Parmesan cheese,
Sauternes with a nice Roqueford,
Young Merlot with Brie
We do not recommend crackers being served with the cheese as most crackers have their own flavors that can distract from both the cheese and the wine. We recommend that you purchase some fresh baked breads, such as country white, wheat and a nice country style sour dough. Slice these and cut them into small squares. Place these on a small plate next to each wine, with perhaps some grapes or fresh figs. These breads can be used to "clear the pallet" before trying the next wine.
Arrange the table according to the following guide;
White before red
Light before heavy
Dry before sweet, and
simple before complex, richly flavored wines.
The above is a general guide and not hard and fast rules. If you have crackers that you enjoy, by all means use them. Wine can be much more enjoyable when it is an adventure. There are 1000's of different wines and 100's of different cheeses, so made it a "discovery party" and maybe hold them monthly, trying something different each time.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
How to remove wine stains.
Imagine that you are hosting a party for some of your best friends. The atmosphere is bubbling with the excitement of everyone chatting and mingling, when all of a sudden you hear a crashing sound and see the sight that every host prays will never happen.
A glass of red wine has taken a swan dive and landed not on your tile floor where it is easy to clean up but on to your very embarrassed guest and all over your furniture. It would appear that Murphy’s Law has struck again, but don’t panic, it is possible to get red wine stains out!
The first thing to do (aside from not panicking) when cleaning red wine spills is to remove the excess spillage. If the wine has been spilled on a couch or carpet take an absorbent cloth (something you don’t mind being stained) or paper towel and blot the excess wine, do not rub in any way! The point of blotting it to remove the wine without working it further into the fabric. If it was a piece of clothing that has been spilled on, remove the article and blot in the same manner.
Once the excess wine has been removed it is very important to rinse the carpet, furniture or clothing to dilute the wine before it has a chance to set in. The best method for this is going to vary on what exactly where the spill is. For clothing or other items that are easily removed, pour cold water from the backside. For items such as carpets and sofas pouring water directly onto the stain and blotting with an absorbent cloth immediately works best.
There is a good chance that this will not take the stain out completely. Carpet and furniture cleaner very well may need to be used. In the past I have had much success with Resolve cleaners for carpets, and for laundry there are many stain removers that should be helpful. A little trick my mother taught me which works wonders is Lestoil. I know some of you may be thinking to yourself that you always thought Lestoil was a floor cleaner, but when diluted with water and used as a soaking agent it works wonders on lots of stains including grease (when mixed with hot water) and wine (when mixed with cold water).
Of course even with all your best efforts there is always the chance that the red wine is going to be so stubborn that you need to call in the professionals. Carpets and furniture sometimes are dry clean only but it is still best to remove as much of the stain as possible while it is still wet because this will make it easier for the professionals to remove the remnants.
The key to ensuring effective stain removal is time. Do not let a stain sit for days or weeks before deciding to try to remove it and don’t wait a week before calling a carpet cleaner because by then it might just be too late and the stain is now a permanent fixture. The same goes for clothing, don’t wait to wash your shirt or pants. I once watched a friend take a shirt out of the washing machine become horrified at the fact that the red wine didn’t come out of her top. When I asked her when she spilled on herself, she told me that it was from a week before. No wonder the stain didn’t come out!
The of course, you can always do what I have done. Leather furniture and wine red carpets.
In the end there is always going to be the possibility that the stain has decided that it never wants to come out or it will not come out completely. Taking the proper steps the moment a spill occurs can greatly reduce the chance of a permanent stain. There is no easy way to prevent spills and stains, aside from slipcovers or not serving red wine at social events, so when a spill does happen remember to stay calm, work quickly and to blot.
If this information was helpful, please share with your friends on facebook and twitter, and let them know about my other blog: www.wineloverssecrets.com.
Thanks for visiting and please return often.
A glass of red wine has taken a swan dive and landed not on your tile floor where it is easy to clean up but on to your very embarrassed guest and all over your furniture. It would appear that Murphy’s Law has struck again, but don’t panic, it is possible to get red wine stains out!
The first thing to do (aside from not panicking) when cleaning red wine spills is to remove the excess spillage. If the wine has been spilled on a couch or carpet take an absorbent cloth (something you don’t mind being stained) or paper towel and blot the excess wine, do not rub in any way! The point of blotting it to remove the wine without working it further into the fabric. If it was a piece of clothing that has been spilled on, remove the article and blot in the same manner.
Once the excess wine has been removed it is very important to rinse the carpet, furniture or clothing to dilute the wine before it has a chance to set in. The best method for this is going to vary on what exactly where the spill is. For clothing or other items that are easily removed, pour cold water from the backside. For items such as carpets and sofas pouring water directly onto the stain and blotting with an absorbent cloth immediately works best.
There is a good chance that this will not take the stain out completely. Carpet and furniture cleaner very well may need to be used. In the past I have had much success with Resolve cleaners for carpets, and for laundry there are many stain removers that should be helpful. A little trick my mother taught me which works wonders is Lestoil. I know some of you may be thinking to yourself that you always thought Lestoil was a floor cleaner, but when diluted with water and used as a soaking agent it works wonders on lots of stains including grease (when mixed with hot water) and wine (when mixed with cold water).
Of course even with all your best efforts there is always the chance that the red wine is going to be so stubborn that you need to call in the professionals. Carpets and furniture sometimes are dry clean only but it is still best to remove as much of the stain as possible while it is still wet because this will make it easier for the professionals to remove the remnants.
The key to ensuring effective stain removal is time. Do not let a stain sit for days or weeks before deciding to try to remove it and don’t wait a week before calling a carpet cleaner because by then it might just be too late and the stain is now a permanent fixture. The same goes for clothing, don’t wait to wash your shirt or pants. I once watched a friend take a shirt out of the washing machine become horrified at the fact that the red wine didn’t come out of her top. When I asked her when she spilled on herself, she told me that it was from a week before. No wonder the stain didn’t come out!
The of course, you can always do what I have done. Leather furniture and wine red carpets.
In the end there is always going to be the possibility that the stain has decided that it never wants to come out or it will not come out completely. Taking the proper steps the moment a spill occurs can greatly reduce the chance of a permanent stain. There is no easy way to prevent spills and stains, aside from slipcovers or not serving red wine at social events, so when a spill does happen remember to stay calm, work quickly and to blot.
If this information was helpful, please share with your friends on facebook and twitter, and let them know about my other blog: www.wineloverssecrets.com.
Thanks for visiting and please return often.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Retire to Mexico: New Wine Blog
Retire to Mexico: New Wine Blog: "Well, it has happened, I have launched http://WineLoversSecrets.com, so please take a little time an visit it.There are 18 posts so far and ..."
New Wine Blog
Well, it has happened, I have launched http://WineLoversSecrets.com, so please take a little time an visit it.
There are 18 posts so far and a lot of vidio, you can get all kinds of information about wine.
Share the site with your friends and help me build the largest wine blog in the area. where ever you live is part of the area.
Email me and let me know what you think, and thanks for visiting my blog
There are 18 posts so far and a lot of vidio, you can get all kinds of information about wine.
Share the site with your friends and help me build the largest wine blog in the area. where ever you live is part of the area.
Email me and let me know what you think, and thanks for visiting my blog
Sunday, September 5, 2010
WineLovers Secrets
It is only three days until the launch of my new website/blog www,wineloverssecrets. be sure to watch for it. There will be all kinds of information about wines and all that goes with wines.
pairing wines with foods, Great recipes, wines with a manageable price
I will be adding a monthly newsletter shortly and want all wine lovers to sign up for it.
see you there, Bill.
pairing wines with foods, Great recipes, wines with a manageable price
I will be adding a monthly newsletter shortly and want all wine lovers to sign up for it.
see you there, Bill.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Mexixan Sweet Bread or Pan
Mexian Pan or Mexican Bread is made up of Conchas, Empenadas, Bolilos, puerquitos and many other types. We will be talking about the sweet type in this blog.
Mexican Pan is served throughout the day. It can be a breakfast bread, a dessert after a meal, or my favorite, an evening snack.
Where we live when we are in Mexico, there are bread trucks, (Pickups with covers over the beds) In the back are large, baskets with tablecloths covering freshly baked sweet Mexican breads. We usually visit with friends and/or family in the evening. When the pan truck comes by, we all go out and get the type we like. We then enjoy it with a drink of choice. Coffee and hot coco on the cooler evenings, Guava juice or some other fruit drink on the warmer days.
The empanada is a pastry that has filling in it. Usually sweet potato, pumpkin or cheese, however they also make them with apples and with sweet jams such as strawberry or cherry.
The little pig shaped breads, called puerquitos, are very much like the gingerbread men that we eat around thanksgiving, in the states.
Mexican women also make a bread pudding called Capirotada during the Lenten and the Christmas seasons. Beside the bread it usually contains raisins, cinnamon, roasted peanuts, and perhaps cheese. Colored jimmies are sprinkled over the top. Of course, every Mexican cook has his/her own recipe for this pudding. They will never taste exactly the same as the one next door.
Mexican Pan, or sweet breads are not covered with frosting and they are somewhat less sweet than those found north of the boarder. This is good, but it takes a couple of tries to find the ones you will enjoy.
There is a lot more that can be written about this wonder bread, but if I write everything, it will take away from your adventure. Try some as soon as you can, you’ll find it is best served with friends.
if your friends would like to read this, please share it with them on facce book or twitter.
To learn more about Mexico and the foods and recipes of Mexico, visit me at: http://william-chaney.com
Thanks for visiting my blog, please return soon
Mexican Pan is served throughout the day. It can be a breakfast bread, a dessert after a meal, or my favorite, an evening snack.
Where we live when we are in Mexico, there are bread trucks, (Pickups with covers over the beds) In the back are large, baskets with tablecloths covering freshly baked sweet Mexican breads. We usually visit with friends and/or family in the evening. When the pan truck comes by, we all go out and get the type we like. We then enjoy it with a drink of choice. Coffee and hot coco on the cooler evenings, Guava juice or some other fruit drink on the warmer days.
The empanada is a pastry that has filling in it. Usually sweet potato, pumpkin or cheese, however they also make them with apples and with sweet jams such as strawberry or cherry.
The little pig shaped breads, called puerquitos, are very much like the gingerbread men that we eat around thanksgiving, in the states.
Mexican women also make a bread pudding called Capirotada during the Lenten and the Christmas seasons. Beside the bread it usually contains raisins, cinnamon, roasted peanuts, and perhaps cheese. Colored jimmies are sprinkled over the top. Of course, every Mexican cook has his/her own recipe for this pudding. They will never taste exactly the same as the one next door.
Mexican Pan, or sweet breads are not covered with frosting and they are somewhat less sweet than those found north of the boarder. This is good, but it takes a couple of tries to find the ones you will enjoy.
There is a lot more that can be written about this wonder bread, but if I write everything, it will take away from your adventure. Try some as soon as you can, you’ll find it is best served with friends.
if your friends would like to read this, please share it with them on facce book or twitter.
To learn more about Mexico and the foods and recipes of Mexico, visit me at: http://william-chaney.com
Thanks for visiting my blog, please return soon
Tortillas
Tortillas, there isn't much more Mexican at the table than the tortillas. The tortillas have been around for thousands of Years. I have no idea where they first started using tortillas, but in Mexico, they are the most important item on the table. Tortillas are round and flat, they can be made of corn or wheat flour. They can be small, only a couple of inches, to very large, but the average size is about 5 inches across.
Corn tortillas are best made by hand, which is a laborious task. There is a rhythmic movement that is interesting to watch. The traditional way to make tortillas involves soaking the kernels of corn in lime water. This is then ground on a stone metate into dough, which is called masa. The masa is shaped into small round balls, which are patted out by hand into tortillas. Fresh tortillas, that have been cooked on a comal, served fresh and hot, have a flavor you will never find in a packaged, reheated tortilla. Corn tortillas come in two colors, white and yellow. I find the yellow tortillas to be a slight bit tougher that the white ones, but that is a personal observation and perhaps only in my immigration,
Flour tortillas, usually white but sometimes made of whole wheat flour are perhaps my favorite tortilla. I really enjoy the whole wheat tortillas for roll-up sandwiches. Don't expect to find them on the average Mexican table, as they are not nearly as popular as the corn variety.
In Mexico, if you do not want to make them yourself, you can buy them fresh daily, at most of the little food stores dotting the countryside. Walk down the streets of any town in Mexico, in the early morning and you will soon find an open window with a lady making tortillas for sale. You can purchase them by the dozen or by the kilo. My advise is to buy no more than what you will use with in a day to a day and a half. Tortillas will sour if mishandled. Store your flour tortillas, in a plastic bag in the refrigerator, but keep your corn tortillas wrapped in the paper they came in and then wrapped in a cloth. This will help keep them from drying out.
Tortillas can be used in place of a spoon when eating. If you watch, you will soon catch on as to how to use them this way. Almost all foods can be eaten inside or with tortillas, so enjoy them daily.
If your not in Mexico, do yourself a favor and seek out the Mexican Restaurants that make their own tortillas, fresh, daily. You will thank yourself that you did.
For more about Life and recipes of Mexico, please visit me at William-Chaney.com
Thanks for reading my blog. If you have friends that might like this, please share it with them on face book or twitter.
visit again soon,
Bill
Corn tortillas are best made by hand, which is a laborious task. There is a rhythmic movement that is interesting to watch. The traditional way to make tortillas involves soaking the kernels of corn in lime water. This is then ground on a stone metate into dough, which is called masa. The masa is shaped into small round balls, which are patted out by hand into tortillas. Fresh tortillas, that have been cooked on a comal, served fresh and hot, have a flavor you will never find in a packaged, reheated tortilla. Corn tortillas come in two colors, white and yellow. I find the yellow tortillas to be a slight bit tougher that the white ones, but that is a personal observation and perhaps only in my immigration,
Flour tortillas, usually white but sometimes made of whole wheat flour are perhaps my favorite tortilla. I really enjoy the whole wheat tortillas for roll-up sandwiches. Don't expect to find them on the average Mexican table, as they are not nearly as popular as the corn variety.
In Mexico, if you do not want to make them yourself, you can buy them fresh daily, at most of the little food stores dotting the countryside. Walk down the streets of any town in Mexico, in the early morning and you will soon find an open window with a lady making tortillas for sale. You can purchase them by the dozen or by the kilo. My advise is to buy no more than what you will use with in a day to a day and a half. Tortillas will sour if mishandled. Store your flour tortillas, in a plastic bag in the refrigerator, but keep your corn tortillas wrapped in the paper they came in and then wrapped in a cloth. This will help keep them from drying out.
Tortillas can be used in place of a spoon when eating. If you watch, you will soon catch on as to how to use them this way. Almost all foods can be eaten inside or with tortillas, so enjoy them daily.
If your not in Mexico, do yourself a favor and seek out the Mexican Restaurants that make their own tortillas, fresh, daily. You will thank yourself that you did.
For more about Life and recipes of Mexico, please visit me at William-Chaney.com
Thanks for reading my blog. If you have friends that might like this, please share it with them on face book or twitter.
visit again soon,
Bill
Monday, August 23, 2010
Make Money with clickbank
I've just finished reading an amazing free
report from Soren Jordansen & Cindy Battye.
It's called "Your Clickbank Treasure Map".
Stay tuned until the end of this short
video to download your free copy.
=> http://cbpirate.com/s/cbp/wchaney
In this free report Soren & Cindy reveal:
* How the "gurus" have been lying to you!
* Why most Clickbank affiliates fail to
make any money at all.
But more importantly...
* Their shockingly simple formula for easily
making tons of Clickbank sales.
* And how their new "Clickbank Pirate"
will automate this for you, so you can
have Soren & Cindy do all the hard work,
while you sit back and watch the
commissions roll in!
Watch the video right now and grab your
free Clickbank Treasure Map!
=> http://cbpirate.com/s/cbp/wchaney
To your Clickbank success,
Bill
report from Soren Jordansen & Cindy Battye.
It's called "Your Clickbank Treasure Map".
Stay tuned until the end of this short
video to download your free copy.
=> http://cbpirate.com/s/cbp/wchaney
In this free report Soren & Cindy reveal:
* How the "gurus" have been lying to you!
* Why most Clickbank affiliates fail to
make any money at all.
But more importantly...
* Their shockingly simple formula for easily
making tons of Clickbank sales.
* And how their new "Clickbank Pirate"
will automate this for you, so you can
have Soren & Cindy do all the hard work,
while you sit back and watch the
commissions roll in!
Watch the video right now and grab your
free Clickbank Treasure Map!
=> http://cbpirate.com/s/cbp/wchaney
To your Clickbank success,
Bill
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Affiliate Marketing Made Simple
I just finished a blog on another of my web sites that is all about Affiliate Marketing. It is very easy to get started earning money on line this way. Affiliate marketing takes the work out of finding a product or products to sell.
In fact, you don't need to handle any product at all. You earn between 50 and 70 percent of the sales price of the item, and the seller, does all the work including sipping.
Visit http://wchaney.cbpirateblog.com and see what I am talking about. If you want to get started selling on
line but not sure how to do it, this could be the answer that you are looking for.
good luck, and keep on blogging,
Thanks for visiting my blog
In fact, you don't need to handle any product at all. You earn between 50 and 70 percent of the sales price of the item, and the seller, does all the work including sipping.
Visit http://wchaney.cbpirateblog.com and see what I am talking about. If you want to get started selling on
line but not sure how to do it, this could be the answer that you are looking for.
good luck, and keep on blogging,
Thanks for visiting my blog
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
AARP and Puerto Vallarta
AARP, the magazine for the over 50 crowd, has named Puerto Vallarta as the Number One place in the whole World for Americans to retire.
In their September/October issue, due out any day, AARP picked the 5 Best Places to Retire Abroad.
#5, is in Italy, #4 in Portugal, #3 in Panama, #2 in France, and #1 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
If you just can't wait to get your hands on a copy, so you can find out what is so great about Puerto Vallarta, stroll over to William-Chaney.com or BoomersExtraIncome.com and check out the article about Vallarta there.
Thanks for visiting my blog,
In their September/October issue, due out any day, AARP picked the 5 Best Places to Retire Abroad.
#5, is in Italy, #4 in Portugal, #3 in Panama, #2 in France, and #1 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
If you just can't wait to get your hands on a copy, so you can find out what is so great about Puerto Vallarta, stroll over to William-Chaney.com or BoomersExtraIncome.com and check out the article about Vallarta there.
Thanks for visiting my blog,
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Aztec Mexican Recipes
I have just added a blog to one of my web-sites, William-Chaney.com which is about a cookbook produced by some friends of mine.It has some awesome recipes that you won't find just anywhere It also has tips on travel in.
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