Affordable Wine Suggestions from Experts & Wine Lovers

A good party generally calls for good wine, but those bottles can really add up. I've surveyed friends, bartenders, and wine merchants about their favorite affordable wine choices...

Affordable Wine Suggestions
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Four Basic Challenges in Cooking for One: And Four Simple Solutions Cooking for One

Cooking for one has a number of unique challenges, from not being able to finish a bottle of wine to passing up great super-sized deals. We've already discussed how to deal with a whole loaf of bread, strategies for using onions and keeping sweets in the house. We've even covered what to do when you get bored, as a solo cook. Now let's take a look at four common challenges for the solo cook and their simple solutions.

1. Want to drink a glass of wine with your dinner?
But not the whole bottle? Consider some of the (pretty darn good) boxed wines now readily available. The wine is held in a plastic bag which deflates as its being used, thus preventing oxygen from reaching the wine. I like Big House Red for my everyday wine.

2. Do you jealously eye super-sized items and their subsequent savings? Try splitting that extra large bag of flour or case of fresh peaches with a few friends and share in the savings. Or shop the bulk bins of your local co-op where prices can be cheaper but you can get the quantity you need. Sometimes the office or your church is a good place to share a well-priced two-fer that will net you more than you need.

3. Do your fresh vegetables start to go bad before you can eat them all?
Take the advice of Tamar Alder and do a little light prepping of everything right when you get home from the market. That way you'll be more apt to use it or to improv with some of the ingredients. It also will help a number of things last a little longer.

4. Is keeping dairy fresh also a challenge?
Try learning a few farmhouse wife skills. Turn a surplus of milk into ricotta or yogurt, use soured milk instead of buttermilk in baking, make your butter into ghee. (Of course butter freezes wonderfully, too.) For eggs, make them into a quiche, cut into individual wedges, and freeze.

What are the challenges for you in your solo kitchen and how do you deal with them?

Related: The Toaster Oven in the Solo Kitchen

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The Wine and Cheese Challenge: Some Sure-Fire Pairings on the Fly The Cheesemonger

Next weekend, one of my closest friends is getting married. A few days ago, the couple asked me and another friend who's a wine professional to organize a wine and cheese pairing for the welcome dinner. Last minute? Yep. Will I be able to taste the pairings beforehand? Nope. Even so, I'm not too worried. I've got some solid standbys that I've used in the past. Pairing anxiety? Not a chance.

I've never tasted the wines that my wine friend chose. There are three. And she's never tasted my cheeses. Another challenge: I'm picking the cheese when I arrive in California, where the wedding is. Go with the flow I most certainly will. So how'd we go about choosing our matchups?

Luckily, we've done this before. We're going with a few surefire, super safe, and unabashedly delicious pairings. Each one is based loosely on a different principe of wine and cheese pairing, but they're the standby pairings I always go to.

1. Like With Like: Sauvignon Blanc & Goat Cheese
The first pairing falls under the Like With Like category. Easy: Sauvignon Blanc and goat cheese.

All I had to go on was what my wine friend gave me about the wine. She wrote: "It's high acid, tropical undertones, lemons and limes, mineral, light to medium, long finish, zesty, mouthwatering, bracing." Perfect with goat cheese, definitely a safe pick. I'll probably pick a goat cheese that isn't too aged, because I don't want the spiciness that can develop with age to compete with the lightness of the wine. Younger goat cheeses though not entirely fresh tend to have a milky, creamy quality, but with a high-acid finish. They taste grassy, bright, and citric. Like with like, indeed.

I'll look for ashed rinded goat cheeses like St. Maure or Valencay, or Andante Dairy goat cheeses, Haystack Farm's Haystack Peak, or Humboldt Fog.

2. Opposites Attract: Riesling & Stinky Cheese
The second pairing illustrates the concept that sometimes, Opposites Attract. My wine bud chose a Riesling, which she says is "off dry, with peachy flavors, very aromatic, perfume-y, high acid, finishes dry, limey, lots of "stony" qualities." Based on the fact that it's a bit sweet (or "off-dry," in wine speak), I'm going for something that will offset the sweetness. In other words, "stinky," in cheese-speak. We'll see what I find, but I'll try to source something only mildly on the smelly side. Maybe something like a Taleggio, Meadowcreek Dairy's Grayson, or Les Freres by Crave Brothers. Riesling plus some stinkiness meld blissfully together, despite their contrasting flavor profiles. It's like they cancel each other out and become an altogether new entity.

3. Tried and True: Rioja & Cheddar Cheese
Lastly, we're going with a Tried And True pairing. This combination works so well simply because each element is so great on its own. And paired together each one elevates the other. Everyone has a Tried and True go-to: Triple Creme cheeses and Champagne, or Stilton and Port, or a rich, fatty sheep milk cheese with a rich, fruit-forward red.

Ours that we consistently fall back on has yet to let us down: Rioja which on its own is a nice category because you can find something a bit more aged without having to spend and farmhouse cheddar. Adjective-wise, I was given: "cherry, leather, spice, medium body, great acid, traditional producer." Huh? My safe, surefire, continually crowd-pleasing English-style cheddar always works. This is my go-to, for reds and whites of all styles, my back pocket ammunition. And with a Rioja, it's pretty perfect.

Stay tuned for next week, when I'll give the report on which cheeses I chose, what turned out to be the best, and if some unexpected pairings emerged from any mixing and matching.

Nora Singley used to be a cheesemonger and the Director of Education at Murray's Cheese Shop. Until recently she was a TV Chef on The Martha Stewart Show. She is currently a freelance food stylist and private chef in New York City.

Related: The Cheesemonger Meets the Winemonger

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