Lettuce Cups With Beef and Horseradish Cream

Lettuce Cups With Beef and Horseradish Cream

by | Apr 13, 2021 | EAT

A great recipe from Cooking with Karen Crouse Springtime in  the  Napa  Valley is marked by bud break. This is when the grapevines wake up and the first leaves emerge from the dormant buds. It is the beginning of the growing season. It’s ...
Napa Valley’s Best Fried Chicken And Wings

Napa Valley’s Best Fried Chicken And Wings

by | Apr 13, 2021 | EAT

The earliest mention of frying chicken can be traced to a fourth-century Roman cookbook of Apicius. The Scottish were the first Europeans to make an unseasoned chicken dish fried in fat. On  the  continent of Africa, West African cultures fried seasoned...
A Day At The Oxbow

A Day At The Oxbow

by | Apr 9, 2021 | EAT, Things to do

Napa’s Oxbow Public Market has served as one of Napa Valley’s revered local gathering places for great food, wine, and local purveyors since its opening in 2007. The 40,000 square-foot space is replete with vendors offering locally produced farm provisions, food,...
Let’s Do Brunch

Let’s Do Brunch

by | Feb 22, 2021 | EAT

Best of Napa Valley Brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch, usually served Sundays from morning to afternoon. According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the origin of the word dates to 1895 in an article titled “Brunch: A Plea” by British author Guy Beringer,...
Cooking with Karen Crouse

Cooking with Karen Crouse

by | Feb 22, 2021 | EAT

As a Napa Valley grape grower and vintner/proprietor of Mount Veeder Magic Vineyards, I have come to appreciate how much this valley caters to my passions, which are centered around wine & food, entertaining, cooking, and nature. I especially enjoy exploring new...