BLOGS
Ginger Peach Cobbler
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!
Sweet and Spicy Noodles
These sweet and spicy noodles are inspired by Thai cuisine. The dish is light, fresh, and pairs nicely with the Frey Organic Pinot Grigio. We hope you’ll enjoy these sweet and spicy noodles as much as we did! We always try to use organic ingredients whenever possible. Enjoy!
Chicken and Butternut Squash Tagine
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.
Our Sense of Smell and Taste
Let us explore our sense of smell and taste with Eva-Marie Lind of our Sensory Lab. We each have our own genetic encoded odor print. None of us, outside of identical twins, experience the sense of smell and taste in the same manner. Scents and flavors elicit psychosomatic (mind and spirit) as well as physiologic (body) responses, which, beyond our awareness, imprint themselves onto our memory. In addition, our perceptions are influenced biologically, by age, sex chemistry and environment.
What is No Sulfites Winemaking?
What is no sulfites winemaking you may wonder? Organic Wine is wine without added sulfites. Under the USDA National Organic Program, sulfites are a synthetic food additive. They are not allowed in organic wine or any other certified organic food products, such as dried fruits, jams, salad dressings or juices. At Frey, all of our wines are made without the addition of any chemicals, including sulfites during the winemaking process. Uncork the organic!
Wild Edible Greens
Wild edible greens are easy to find in Northern California’s late winter and spring. Use this wonderful guide from Eliza Frey to help you dine on the tastiest salad mix that you can forage!
Asparagus Filo Basket with Tarragon Hollandaise
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.
BioFiltro Water Filtration System
Enter the BioFiltro water filtration system with a patented BioFiltro water filtration system that naturally regenerates process water in four hours. This chemical-free system removes grape skins, grape seeds, sugars, and other organic compounds from the water and regenerates millions of gallons of water per year to be used for irrigation and frost protection in our vineyards.
Katrina’s Perennial Flower Garden
The vision for Katrina’s perennial flower garden on the Frey Ranch started long before Katrina arrived in California. She grew up in Michigan, enjoying the blooms of her mother’s flower gardens. She spent summers working with her grandfather at his perennial flower nursery in Vermont, and came to appreciate her family’s floral heritage. When Katrina first came to California in the 1970s, her impetus for the adventure West was to learn organic gardening with the eccentric green thumb, Alan Chadwick. Her love of flowers blossomed there in the cultivating of perennial borders, as well as her love for her future husband, Jonathan Frey, who was also working in the nascent organics movement.
