~uGoGirl~

  Drinking wine with your friends, your clients or your colleagues is a good way to socialize. Not only does this taste and smell good, but this also helps you make friends or strengthen your bond between your old friends.

  I’ve searched wine clubs and I can say that ones with a wine of the month are pretty interesting indeed. You get to familiarize yourself with other kinds of wine and not stick to your old favorites. This way, you can share to others your opinion on what wine tastes better, and they can also share with you their favorites. Useful, don’t you think?

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I love wine. It can sometimes be pretty expensive, but nevertheless, the expensive ones are definitely worth saving for. Especially if you know which food goes best with a particular type of wine… it can be utterly delightful.

I know a lot of people are into wines. But I was amazed to find out that there’s a wine club existing – The Gold Medal Wine Club. Interesting huh? What’s unique about this wine of the month club is that they pick wines based from the high ratings of renowned wine publications and the awards in wine competitions, not just based from the usual what the club thinks is great.

So, if you’re looking for good quality wine, I suggest you check out their recommendations. I’m sure you will not be disappointed especially with their featured wines. You might also want to consider joining that club to avail of the 45% off of winery-direct prices. I am.

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I love food and two of my favorites are pizza and pasta. Consequently, I am also a fan of Italian restaurants.

My friend Dof, who lives in San Diego, knows how fond I am of pizza and pasta. Dof boasted that he tasted the best Italian pizza and pasta in Trattoria Acqua, one of the restaurants in La Jolla. They actually have a website and I found out that it is included in the “Top 10 Italian Dining destinations in America” by USA Today magazine, and received the “Italian Gold Award” by Southern California’s Restaurant Writers Association consistently from 2001-2006. Definitely a must not miss Italian restaurant.

Since I live far, he promised me that if I do visit them, he’ll buy me dinner at that restaurant. For now, I am content in just sharing my friend’s new discovery to my blog readers. In case you’re near there and would like to have a taste of authentic home style Italian food in a Mediterranean setting, Trattoria Acqua is located at 1298 Prospect Street in La Jolla, California.

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Last July 2, on our monthly general assembly, my boss insisted that we each cook a dish and bring it for our first-ever pot luck lunch. This was initiated by our endless, but more than de rigueur, grievances with our everyday catered lunches (as one of my officemates described our lunches, “You’d envy those that are starving because at least they aren’t FORCED to eat these.”).

Anyhow, the pot luck lunch is actually a contest on who can cook better than our caterer, and who can bring the most appetizing dish. At the end of the almost-two-buffet-rounds-per-person lunch, my boss asked us to vote for the best dish (excluding the ones we prepared). Guess which dish got 5 out of 12 votes? My Chicken Curry! ^_^

Considering that it’s the only decent dish I can cook (minus all the fried ones), and I just learned it this year for my sister’s birthday, I think I may have a future in cooking. I ought to start trying out new dishes. Perhaps even enroll in a cooking school such as http://www.baychef.com/ and try to make a living out of it afterwards. Hmmmm…

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