Shared an amazing picnic in San Francisco with ten friends to celebrate the fourth. The group is comprised of friends from my business school class who started getting together four years ago to share amazing food and wine. A potluck on steroids. The group is called WAG (wine and gourmet) and it's been a great way to spend time with close friends.
Yesterday's feast was impressive -
Perhaps most exciting for me was REALLY enjoying a white wine, which I so rarely appreciate. Easy to understand why this one would be enjoyable as it was an Araujo Sauvignon Blanc.
Along with incredible wine (also featured were a 1996 Viader and a Turley Dogtown Zin and a N. Feuillette rose champagne) were some remarkable and innovative picnic choices including Malaysian top hats (which were S's childhood snack - quite a bit more impressive than the pb&j's that most of us were offered), prisciutto, melon and fresh mozzarella and my personal favorite - a cheese and onion tart from Balthazar recipe, only with the improvement of substituting Cowgirl Creamery mascarpone and fresh ricotta for the recipe's cream cheese.
The peach and blueberry pies were inspired.
All in all, a glorious celebration of independence.
Including independence from the idiotic South Beach diet I've been slavishly following to minimal effect....
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