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Just been watching my favourite Food Program in the 'Tele this evening, covering the Wine regions of Northern California; the Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley regions.
Areas that I am extremely familiar with, after my many years of daily flights over them with my various Flight Simulators.

So, together with the visits to the California Grape and Olive plantations in the program, I decided to construct myself a nice heart-warming Supper before retiring to bed with a happy tummy!

Italian Style..... ...!

Here goes:

Virgin Olive Oil.
Chopped Onions.
Sliced Mushrooms.
Chopped Garlic.
Chopped Chilli.
Tomato Paste.
Garlic Paste.
Parsley.
Grated Cheese.

Egg Tagliatelle (Pasta)

...and more Virgin Olive Oil!
(I love saying that!)... ...!

All mixed together after cooking and served on a HOT plate with a glass (or three) of various alcoholic beverages... ...!



What more could one ask for, before (and after) a visit to bed... ... ... ....!

And it was FANTASTIC!

Paul...Cook Extraordinaire.... ...!

http://california-vineyards.com/wine-regions/

Looks awesome, Paul!

By the by... Happy belated Birthday!

Alan

ViperPilot wrote:Looks awesome, Paul!

By the by... Happy belated Birthday!

Alan

Many thanks, Alan!.... ...!

Paul.... ...!

Fozzer wrote:Just been watching my favourite Food Program in the 'Tele this evening, covering the Wine regions of Northern California; the Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley regions.
Areas that I am extremely familiar with, after my many years of daily flights over them with my various Flight Simulators.

Gee, the only familiarity I have with that area is living there for my first 18 years!

Looks tasty, tho!! There are a lot of little mom-n-pop retaurants up there that make some truely amazing food, I can tell ya that!

Thanx for making me hungry again!

Pat☺

PhantomTweak wrote:

Fozzer wrote:Just been watching my favourite Food Program in the 'Tele this evening, covering the Wine regions of Northern California; the Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley regions.
Areas that I am extremely familiar with, after my many years of daily flights over them with my various Flight Simulators.

Gee, the only familiarity I have with that area is living there for my first 18 years!

Looks tasty, tho!! There are a lot of little mom-n-pop retaurants up there that make some truely amazing food, I can tell ya that!

Thanx for making me hungry again!

Pat☺

Many thanks, Pat!.... ...!

The TV food program I was watching had two presenters, travelling together.
One covered the various wine regions in the areas.
The other covered the Mom-n-Pop restaurants in the areas.

They travelled by motor car, starting at Portland in Oregon (your present neck of the redwoods!), down to Napa and Sonoma Valley, presumably down Interstate highway101!

A fascinating program, touring scenic areas that I am very familiar with, with my daily Flight Sim touring of the west coast!

Today I will be hopping up Napa Valley and down Sonoma Valley, popping into various places in my little single-seat Gyrocopter, whilst watching out for the various gliders and hang gliders having fun in those areas!

Touring interesting areas with my Flight Sim that appear on my TV is loads of fun, and highly educational!

My new Super-Computer, and my FSX equipped with scenery programs, "Orbx FTX" and "Ultimate Terrain USA", etc, with everything running flat-out, shows the scenery evolving below me very accurately in comparison with my relief maps and photographs of the areas!

I can even identify the various grape varieties in the wine yards from the air! *

I do occasionally risk travelling northwards into Oregon, Pat; but I am always fearful of the the Bears and Wild Oreganos which inhabit the State....
....it is an area of much mystery and danger!

Paul....with my shopping bag ready for a few bottles of best Pinot Noir!... ....!

*...probably?... ...!

..... ... ...!

Wonderful recipe Paul...picture is worth a thousand words...dang...now I am hungry again...

Looking very good Paul

My wife has left me again....


on a holiday! (I'm beginnig to get suspicious )

My dinner today

Brought it as it is, so no preparation

Fozzer wrote:Today I will be hopping up Napa Valley and down Sonoma Valley, popping into various places in my little single-seat Gyrocopter, whilst watching out for the various gliders and hang gliders having fun in those areas!

Just so you know, fantastic soaring in the Calistoga area of the Napa valley, North end there of. It pretty much terminates as a box canyon, and usually the wind is blowing right up the canyon, so you have great ridge lift on three sides. Calistoga is closed as an active airport now, but back in the earlly '70s it had a glider school/flight tour service there, with very reasonable tow rates. The tow pilots could tell where the lift probably was and take you right into it! That's where I learned to soar originally, being the youngest to graduate the glider school in their history A week after my 14th birthday.

I do occasionally risk travelling northwards into Oregon, Pat; but I am always fearful of the the Bears and Wild Oreganos which inhabit the State....
....it is an area of much mystery and danger!

Fortunately, I'm not as far North as Portland. Klammath Falls is very near the California/Oregon border. Always welcome to come visit Crater Lake is gorgeous this time of year! We try to keep the mysteries to a bear minimum whenever we can...Altho my lovely wife, and indeed most women are a total mystery to me. Much like cats, I don't try to understand them, just enjoy their company
Notice the "bear" pun there???

Good fortune finding some good wine, and awesome flights to you today and every day

Pat☺

That certainly beat my Pot Noodle at work last night...........

And, as for your favourite fly region, my wife's aunt lives in Santa Rosa, effectively "around the corner" from Napa Valley. When ever we visit, a visit to a couple of vineyards is always planned in...........

Matt