Lifeline Cafe's "T.O.S.A." Wine Dinner! October 13, 2009

Join us for this culinary adventure with a five course full service "Taste of South America"!!

Bring your own wine selection from one of the Argentinian or Chilean wine regions.
Just choose one wine per person or per couple. Below you will find some suggestions on a course you could choose to bring a wine for.

This fantastic menu will feature the following selections:

Appetizer: Argentina - Pumpkin Empanada with Chimichurri Muy Perfecto
Roasted pumpkin is combined with spiced meat, scallions, green onions & olives with a parsley garlic plate sauce.
Wine Suggestion: Argentina-Malbec or Tempranillo / Chile Carmenere, Cabernet Sauvignon

Soup: Venezuela - Jack Daniels Crab & Corn Chowder
Roasted corn, celery, onions, & potatoes combined with spiced crabmeat, a splash of Jack Daniels and finished with fresh parsley and thyme.
Wine Suggestion: Argentina-Torrontes or Pedro Gimenez / Chile Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc

Salad: Brazil - Pan Sauteed Kale
Pan Sauteed garlic, onion and spices combined with pan sauteed Kale and finished with White Truffle Oil.
Wine Suggestion: Argentina: Chenin / Chile Carmenere or Sauvignon Blanc

Main Course: Chilean - Seafood, Dumplings & Cornbread
Seafood hot pot with skillet sweet potato plantain dumplings & Side Dish Jalapeno Taco Spice Cornbread with Chile Lime Tarragon Tequila butter.
Wine Suggestion: Argentina: Malbec or Cabernet Sauvignon / Chile Pinot Noir or Cabernet Suavignon. Also if someone or sometwo snuck a Spanish Albarino in I wouldn't tell.

Dessert: Columbia - Arrequipe & Guava Quesadilla
Fresh mozzarella, cream cheese and guava with cinnamon, nutmeg powdered sugar & ice cream.
Wine Suggestion Argentina: Semillon / Chile- Muscat or Viognier. These selections can be tough to find at times, but if you do. Enjoy we will.

As we begin our new adventures in food & wine appreciation together. I would appreciate you forwarding this menu to your friends. Chefs love to cook and friends love to eat. We'd love to not only wine and dine you, but we'd love to wine and dine your friends to.

We will also start better portion control, as most past event attendees have expressed we serve to much food. A good thing, but I would rather the evening have a feeling of complete food & wine nirvana, and not guiltiness you can't consume the portions we've served in the past.

We are going to also make a concerted effort to make the perfect pairings for each course. So if you choose to use our wine suggestions on one of the courses please pick one of the numbers and mark your wine label with the number. This will help me organize wines into course wine groups faster at the start of each event.

Appetizer (1)
Soup (2)
Salad (3)
Main Course(4)
Dessert (5)

You may also tip concluding each meal. With this we will start a Slow Food Fund. In other words tips will be used to purchase one of the world's finest food selections to treat the beggining of each event with something special to toast the evening!

This week it will be a surprise as I will supply the first round.

Sincerely,
Gary Irvin
[email protected]
Founder
The Lifeline

P.S. Keep in mind the charity you would like to support. We will add your selection to a raffle and draw a charitable organization to donate a portion of the evenings dinner proceeds to. The object of the dinner is not to try and save the day for a charity, but to give what we can by having a fun evening together.