Comments on: Champagne Celebration http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/ Red Hot Reads Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:46:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Isabel Sharpe http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/#comment-714 Isabel Sharpe Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:49:45 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=179#comment-714 You're welcome for the recipe and champagne tip! Here's to the day we can all buy Veuve Clicquot without blinking. Happy birthday to your dh, Joanne! Isabel You’re welcome for the recipe and champagne tip! Here’s to the day we can all buy Veuve Clicquot without blinking.

Happy birthday to your dh, Joanne!

Isabel

]]> By: Joanne Rock http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/#comment-708 Joanne Rock Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:46:20 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=179#comment-708 Thanks for the affordable tip, Isabel! My wine guy rolls his eyes when I walk in as he knows I'm perpetually armed with columns like "Top 5 affordable wines." But I consider it a personal mission to live well on a budget. Well, that and my husband would keel over if he knew the cost of my rare vino indulgences. ;-) It's his 40th birthday today, BTW. Seems like a good time to test out the recipe!! Thanks for the affordable tip, Isabel! My wine guy rolls his eyes when I walk in as he knows I’m perpetually armed with columns like “Top 5 affordable wines.” But I consider it a personal mission to live well on a budget. Well, that and my husband would keel over if he knew the cost of my rare vino indulgences. ;-) It’s his 40th birthday today, BTW. Seems like a good time to test out the recipe!!

]]> By: Candace Havens http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/#comment-700 Candace Havens Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:20:52 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=179#comment-700 Yum, that sounds good. :-) Yum, that sounds good. :-)

]]> By: Heather MacAllister http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/#comment-687 Heather MacAllister Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:45:39 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=179#comment-687 Oh, wow, what a great recipe. (D) Oh, wow, what a great recipe. (D)

]]> By: Jamie Sobrato http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/#comment-686 Jamie Sobrato Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:45:26 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=179#comment-686 Okay, I'm taking notes on what to try next! Due to budget constraints I went to the store today and bought Isabel's recommended Domaine Ste Michelle--can't wait to try it. I fondled the more expensive stuff but in the end had to buy pesky food and other necessities, so an $8 bottle of bubbly felt plenty extravagent. :-) Okay, I’m taking notes on what to try next! Due to budget constraints I went to the store today and bought Isabel’s recommended Domaine Ste Michelle–can’t wait to try it. I fondled the more expensive stuff but in the end had to buy pesky food and other necessities, so an $8 bottle of bubbly felt plenty extravagent. :-)

]]> By: Isabel Sharpe http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/#comment-685 Isabel Sharpe Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:59:10 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=179#comment-685 Hi all! We've had a great day. Visiting Mississippi and Alabama today means I've been in every one of the 48 contiguous states in the USA, which is a pretty cool thing to brag about. The space museum was amazing, Sherry! The kids loved it and so did I. Not only the sheer excitement of seeing an entire Saturn rocket, but also stuff like the quarantine chamber they used to make the moon astronauts spend time in to make sure they weren't introducing weird new germs to us earthlings. I remember those first moon landing guys having to go in there, and there it was! And we have had such good food! Fried chicken to die for in Memphis, plus awesome BBQ, fried catfish in a fabulous hole-in-the-wall today outside Huntsville. for anyone who is traveling, www.chowhound.com is the best reference for great local food. They haven't steered us wrong once. Tomorrow we start home via a Plantation tour outside Nashville, then the night in Louisville, KY. Then a long drive back to Milwaukee on Friday. No champagne on this trip I'm sad to say! I'm a very careful drinker, until it comes to the bubbly. I can't stop drinking the stuff and like you, Sarah, I like the real thing. Champagnaholic, that's me. Well thank you to Tawny and Jamie for stopping in today while I was on the road. I'll check in again in the morning, and next month I'll be back home in Wisconsin (boy is it nice to see trees already leafing here!) and online all day as usual. Cheers, ladies! Isabel Hi all! We’ve had a great day. Visiting Mississippi and Alabama today means I’ve been in every one of the 48 contiguous states in the USA, which is a pretty cool thing to brag about.

The space museum was amazing, Sherry! The kids loved it and so did I. Not only the sheer excitement of seeing an entire Saturn rocket, but also stuff like the quarantine chamber they used to make the moon astronauts spend time in to make sure they weren’t introducing weird new germs to us earthlings. I remember those first moon landing guys having to go in there, and there it was!

And we have had such good food! Fried chicken to die for in Memphis, plus awesome BBQ, fried catfish in a fabulous hole-in-the-wall today outside Huntsville. for anyone who is traveling, http://www.chowhound.com is the best reference for great local food. They haven’t steered us wrong once. Tomorrow we start home via a Plantation tour outside Nashville, then the night in Louisville, KY. Then a long drive back to Milwaukee on Friday.

No champagne on this trip I’m sad to say! I’m a very careful drinker, until it comes to the bubbly. I can’t stop drinking the stuff and like you, Sarah, I like the real thing. Champagnaholic, that’s me.

Well thank you to Tawny and Jamie for stopping in today while I was on the road. I’ll check in again in the morning, and next month I’ll be back home in Wisconsin (boy is it nice to see trees already leafing here!) and online all day as usual.

Cheers, ladies!

Isabel

]]> By: sarah mayberry http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/#comment-683 sarah mayberry Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:54:27 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=179#comment-683 Isabel, I am going to try this recipe first chance I get. Yum! And what a great idea to post a recipe once a month. I love cooking - and eating!!! Isabel, I am going to try this recipe first chance I get. Yum! And what a great idea to post a recipe once a month. I love cooking – and eating!!!

]]> By: sarah mayberry http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/#comment-682 sarah mayberry Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:52:51 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=179#comment-682 Well, sadly, ladies, I have a serious addiction to the French stuff - Moet Chandon, Bollinger, Louis Roederer - but I still get hangovers if I drink too much of it. Boy, do I get hangovers. My new grown up goal this year is to drink till I feel good and then STOP!!! It's having that extra couple when you feel great that always gets me into trouble... But don't let any of the above stop you from very important research. I highly recommend the Roederer - it's my fave! And I also love a Kir Royal, which is champagne with a shot of creme de cassis (blackcurrant liqueur). Yum. And I've also had champagne with a shot of butterscotch schnnaps in it. Also delicious. Mmmm. Is it wrong to want a champagne cocktail for breakfast? Well, sadly, ladies, I have a serious addiction to the French stuff – Moet Chandon, Bollinger, Louis Roederer – but I still get hangovers if I drink too much of it. Boy, do I get hangovers. My new grown up goal this year is to drink till I feel good and then STOP!!! It’s having that extra couple when you feel great that always gets me into trouble… But don’t let any of the above stop you from very important research. I highly recommend the Roederer – it’s my fave! And I also love a Kir Royal, which is champagne with a shot of creme de cassis (blackcurrant liqueur). Yum. And I’ve also had champagne with a shot of butterscotch schnnaps in it. Also delicious. Mmmm. Is it wrong to want a champagne cocktail for breakfast?

]]> By: chey http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/#comment-681 chey Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:13:58 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=179#comment-681 That champagne cocktail sounds great on a nice warm day in the summer! I wonder if the champagne question is a marketing strategy? That champagne cocktail sounds great on a nice warm day in the summer! I wonder if the champagne question is a marketing strategy?

]]> By: Sherry Werth http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/04/15/champagne-celebration/#comment-680 Sherry Werth Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:04:01 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=179#comment-680 I love new recipes! I'm a southern girl and although I do occasionally sit on the porch and have a frosty drink, it's usually a beer instead of a mint julep. ;-) But the champagne cocktail does sound interesting! I hope your family enjoys the Space Museum. We've lived in north Alabama for 13 years and I have never been to the museum! My kids have been on school field trips but I have not. And while you're in the area and if you have time the Huntsville Botanical Gardens is having a "Big Bugs" exhibit. No, not the creepy crawly kind...the 18 - 25 ft metal sculpture kind. They have pictures posted on their website. Ok, I'm finished with the "See Alabama" tour guide. LOL Hope you have a great vacation! :-) I love new recipes! I’m a southern girl and although I do occasionally sit on the porch and have a frosty drink, it’s usually a beer instead of a mint julep. ;-) But the champagne cocktail does sound interesting!

I hope your family enjoys the Space Museum. We’ve lived in north Alabama for 13 years and I have never been to the museum! My kids have been on school field trips but I have not. And while you’re in the area and if you have time the Huntsville Botanical Gardens is having a “Big Bugs” exhibit. No, not the creepy crawly kind…the 18 – 25 ft metal sculpture kind. They have pictures posted on their website.
Ok, I’m finished with the “See Alabama” tour guide. LOL Hope you have a great vacation! :-)

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