This Pene Pasta with a Leek and Jalapeno Cream Sauce dish was inspired by a trip Chef Tamara Frey recently took to Baja California where she had a wonderful plate of tequila jalapeno cream sauce with shrimp and scallops. Here, she’s created a vegetarian version using leeks instead of seafood and Frey Organic Chardonnay in place of tequila.  It turned out very tasty!

Try chef Tamara Frey’s Winter Squash delight! This recipe was inspired by her mother, Beba’s, old-fashioned baked yams that she enjoyed every Thanksgiving while growing up. But instead of yams, she used winter squash for this easy-to-make recipe, and almost any variety of winter squash will work.

Try Chef Tamara Frey’s Roasted Cauliflower Steaks with a Malbec Mushroom Cream Sauce using the Frey Organic Malbec! This vegetarian meal is delicious, filling, and pairs well with a glass of Frey wine! YUM!

Tamara Frey’s Lemon Meringue Pie on a Graham Cracker Crust
With Strawberries and Cream. Lemon meringue pie is a tasty and refreshing dessert classic.  She prefers using Meyer lemons and fresh farm eggs, and she’s always loved lemon meringue on graham cracker crust, paired with a Frey organic white wine!

Maple Apple Crumble inspired by a recent trip to the East Coast by Chef Tamara Frey

This Ginger Peach cobbler is a mouth-watering favorite for every summer table! Peach season is upon us!  A family member dropped off a box of them last week, fresh from our vineyard peach trees.  This led me to think of how the aromas of peaches are often detected in wines.  So I set out to include a wine reduction in this recipe, a Pinot Grigio syrup, to bring out even more complex and wonderful flavors in wine and bring them into this peach dish.  If you make this, we’d love to hear about it!

I love this chicken and butternut squash tagine! A tagine is a delicious Moroccan-style stew that is slow-cooked in a ceramic pot of the same name, but you can also cook the dish in a regular baking pan as I did for this recipe.  I used a tagine pot for presentation.  Leave out the chicken for vegetarian version.  I hadn’t made a tagine for years until a client recently requested a dish.  It turned out so good I had to share!  It paired wonderfully with Frey Organic Pinot Grigio.

Enjoy this Asparagus Filo Basket with Tarragon Hollandaise Sauce Recipe from chef Tamara Frey. Hollandaise can be tricky as we all know.  People are afraid to attempt it.  Years ago when I had a little cafe and labored over the classic water-bath hollandaise method, one of the other cooks gave me this fabulous recipe.  I have never gone back to the classic French method I learned in culinary school.  I love that the consistency of this recipe holds its own every time.