Dancing Spoon

Two Skewer Kebabs

Tips Grilling

by J. Michael Wheeler
Wrestling Skewers
Grilling shrimp, veggies, and other small tasty kebab items on skewers is a great technique: until you’re ready to flip the skewer. Then, often the skewer will turn but some, or all, of the those kebab-ers won’t budge. They just spin on the skewer or try to escape entirely. Here’s the secret: thread each piece of food with two parallel skewers. Then when it’s time to turn the food, you can use tongs to turn the skewers. The food stays put, cooks more evenly, and the kebabs are easy to handle.

Grilling Recipes
We've got some very tasty summer recipes at Dancing Spoon Magazine. Try Kate Gooding's Grilled Shitake Encrusted Buffalo Rib Steaks & Warm Black Fly Vinaigrette Salad, Smoked Duck in a Raspberry Sauce is from her new Dancing Spoon column Out of the Ordinary. Gloria Bakst brings us Black Cod or Sable Grilled in Miso Marinade and Nori Topped Summer Salad an inventive, refreshing salad using a world of ingredients.
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EZ Smoke BBQ 3-pack (1 each: Hickory, Mesquite, Apple).

EZ Smoke BBQ 3-pack (1 each: Hickory, Mesquite, Apple)
Peel off the seal and put the flavor into your meal with EZ Smoke BBQ! Four varieties of natural wood chips flavors your meats, poultry, fish or vegetables with a unique smoky taste with no mess or fuss. Re-usable up to 3 times. Quick and easy! No soaking, no mess, no flying ash. Produces natural wood smoke in about 2 minutes. Use on gas or charcoal grills. Ready to use in seconds, and can be used throughout the year. Compact and easy to transport, great for boat and RV owners, capers, tailgaters, hunters and fishermen. Easy to use! Simply remove the label, place can on coals or lava rocks, and within minutes it begins to smoke. Grill as you normally would. Easy to store! One can of EZ smoke produces the same amount of smoking time as a 180 cubic inch bag of chips. EZ Smoke BBQ chips adds flavor to foods when gas grilling.

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Grilled Shitake Buffalo Steaks

Ordinary Out of the

OOO by Kate Krukowski Gooding
Grilled Shitake Encrusted Buffalo Rib Steaks & Warm Black Fly Vinaigrette Salad
It has been a very wet spring and summer so far, up here on Mount Desert Island in Maine. It seems like a record year for black flies and now the multitude of several variety mushrooms are exploding; even in my house plants! I do like the earthy flavor of the shitake and take great pleasure in layering it, when powdered, in this recipe. 

This edible mushroom, native to East Asia, is cultivated and consumed around the world. It’s most widely known by its Japanese name, shiitake, from the dead logs of the Japanese tree on which it is cultivated. One of the Chinese names refers to it as haugu "flower mushroom," which has a flower-like cracking pattern on the mushroom's upper surface (pictured here).

Château d'Yquem Video Part 2

Wine About

by J. Michael Wheeler
Sandrine Garbay, Château d'Yquem's cellar master and winemaker, talks about how Chateau d Yquem changes in taste as it ages. Interviewed by Dancing Spoon Community member Per Karlsson, this is the second of two video interviews. She has been in charge of wine making since at Château d'Yquem 1998. More of the Sandrine Garbay interview.

Garbay begins with young vintages just after bottling and talks about how the taste evolves to more complex flavors with age, all while we are tasting the 1998 vintage! The young the wine is very much about the fruit and exotic aromas. With age it evolves more to dried fruit and marmalade tones. As it ages even further, it turns towards coffee and caramel notes, toast, and roasted aromas... Enjoy!



We take a peek at the vintages 1989, 1982, 1967, 1945, 1937, 1929, 1921, 1893. . . One can always dream!



Chateau d'Yquem is located in Sauternes in Bordeaux and is one of the worlds most expensive sweet white wines. It is in fact simply one of the worlds most exclusive wines. Yquem is the biggest property in all of Sauternes having 100 hectares. The size adds complexity and depth to the wine.



In part one of our video interview, Sandrine Garbay talks about the chateau, her own background, the estate and about how to match and pair sauternes, and Yquem in particular, with food. Château d'Yquem Video Interview, Part 1.

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Aerates your wine while you pour it!

Soiree Bottle-top Wine Decanter
The Soiree is a wine accessory that fits into any standard corked wine bottle, and comes with an extra gasket that will work with any screw cap bottle; allowing you to pour, without dripping, directly through the Soiree. Once you place the Soiree in the wine bottle, the Soiree aerates your wine as you pour it. The Soiree allows you to decant just the portion of wine you want - a glass or a carafe. The Soiree can also be used to pour the wine into a decanter, further expediting the "opening" of your wine. Soiree fits securely into any wine bottle allowing you to pour, without dripping directly through the Soiree. In using the Soiree to aerate your wine, you will notice the subtleties and character of the wine emerge immediately upon entering your glass. Soiree delivers a truly open wine just by pouring through it!

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Château d'Yquem Video Interview

Wine About

by J. Michael Wheeler
They pick each individual grape by hand. They pick the ripest fruit; they pick the most rotten. If they are not ripe enough and not rotten enough they leave it for the next wave of picking. They are, of course, picking grapes for the legendary Château d'Yquem, the very best Sauternes, one of the most remarkable wines in the world. Château d'Yquem is located in Sauternes in Bordeaux and is one of the worlds most expensive sweet white wines. In fact, it's simply one of the world's most exclusive wines all categories.

Sandrine Garbay, Château d'Yquem's the chief winemaker and cellar master (maitre de chai) is interviewed by Dancing Spoon Community member Per Karlsson . She has been in charge of wine making since at Château d'Yquem 1998. More interview information.

Andre Simon, a wine writer, merchant, and gourmet, described Château d'Yquem as “distilled dew and honey with the fragrance of all of the fresh wild flowers of the field greeting the dawn.”

Those weren’t the words that flowed from my lips after tasting Château d'Yquem for the first time, but only because I lack the poetry. The 2001 vintage was rated 100 by both Robert Parker and the Wine Spectator.

Young Yquem is a beautiful brilliant golden color and the wine darkens to a deep tawny with age. And age it can do. The Antique Wine Company has a listing for an 1811 bottle priced at £41,000.00!   

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Aerates your wine while you pour it!

Soiree Bottle-top Wine Decanter
The Soiree is a wine accessory that fits into any standard corked wine bottle, and comes with an extra gasket that will work with any screw cap bottle; allowing you to pour, without dripping, directly through the Soiree. Once you place the Soiree in the wine bottle, the Soiree aerates your wine as you pour it. The Soiree allows you to decant just the portion of wine you want - a glass or a carafe. The Soiree can also be used to pour the wine into a decanter, further expediting the "opening" of your wine. Soiree fits securely into any wine bottle allowing you to pour, without dripping directly through the Soiree. In using the Soiree to aerate your wine, you will notice the subtleties and character of the wine emerge immediately upon entering your glass. Soiree delivers a truly open wine just by pouring through it!

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