Today I am starting a new blog series – Wino Wednesday.
Wino Wednesday is important because if ever a day of the week requires a glass of wine such as QKAWine – wine & spirits, it’s right smack dab in the middle of the week – Wednesday!
Today I’m drinking Castle Rock 2008 Sauvignon Blanc. I am a white wine girl so I am thinking the first few Wino Wednesdays will showcase whites and I will gradually build up the courage to get into the reds!
How do I display my wine in a wine cabinet? I found a helpful guide at enofaber.com.
This bottle only set me back around $8.00, so I wasn’t expecting much. It smells peachy, but wasn’t very sweet. I actually prefer wine on the sweet side, but it wasn’t bad. 
Since we still don’t have a dining room table and the kitchen is in shambles, Ben and I went out to dinner. We were about to go to Rubios when I spotted Souplantion! I love that place and my mind was made up immediately.
The bad thing about buffets such at SP is they end up being 5 course meals for me 🙁 I need to learn how to bring moderation to a buffet or I’m going to have to either 1.) swear off of them or 2.) resign myself to a future of obesity.
Course 1: Salad – you know what’s better than hard boiled egg on salad? Nothing.
Course 2: Pasta – these were just okay and I probably only ate half
Course 3: Cornbread! The pizza was for Ben
Course 4: Soup – they had a Pinto Bean and Brown Rice soup that was right up my alley! Hello, those are two of my 10 fave foods!! Unfortunately, this soup didn’t like up to my expectations. You win some, you lose some.
Course 5: Dessert. As much as I would love to have the willpower to walk away from Chocolate Molten Lava Cake, I am weak and do not. At least Ben shared it with me. 
Sana asked me to dish on how I met Ben. I actually answered this when I did the “Ask Me Anything” series. Here is the story of how I met Ben, and the other Ask Me Anything questions are in the FAQs.
I’ve had the Castle Rock — pretty decent and I love the price. Can’t wait to check out some of your recipes. I just found your blog by Googling “Wino Wednesday” because I have a Wino Wednesday as well. Nice to meet you.
Cheers!
Yeah! Nice to meet you too 🙂
You and Ben are awesomeeee! Hahahha best date story everrr :)!
I wish I loked wine more..I would totally get on board with that if I did!!
I am TOTALLY on board for Wino Wednesday. And Lush Thursday. And Vodka Friday. 😉
Souplantation/Fresh Choice = death. But oh so good. Their corn bread is SO good. As are their blueberry muffins. And froyo bar. Man. I want to go!
I started reading your post not too long after you wrote about how you and Ben met, but I enjoyed hearing that story! You are very brave for going to a remote place with a “stranger”! You are so blessed to have found such an amazing person! And Ben looks so much different with a shaved head and no facial hair! Weird!!! He looks much more grown up now 🙂 Oh and I definitely am going to be joining wino wednesday! love it!
in college we definitely celebrated “white wine wednesday” which morphed into “wine wednesday” which morphed into “drinking whatever wednesday” haha! so i fully support wino wednesday from you 🙂
Wino Wednesday is brilliant. I’m a white wine girl, too – especially in the summer heat. Have to agree with you about the hard-boiled egg. And my favorite salads have a big spoonful of hummus to mix throughout. Pinto + brown rice sounded so promising – I bet you could make a tastier version at home. 🙂
This is totally unrelated and I’m sooo late (I’ve been out of town) but I just wanted to tell you how rocking your new blonde hair looks! You look GORGEOUS! I adore my long brown hair but everytime I look at one of your pictures I want to run to a saloon and beg for bleach!
I am new to your blog and absolutely LOVE IT!
I used to work at Applebee’s and they had a similar chocolate cake. Try staying away from those bad boys on the daily. It is not easy my friend…
I love a sweeter wine too… try “Seven Daughters” if you can find it. It’s a perfect blend of 7 different kinds of wine.
Hooray for wino wednesday! I LOVE this new holiday! 😉 Now I just have to try to keep it to one day because I could probably celebrate wino days every day of the week! 😉
Who could possibly walk away from that chocolate lava cake? I would like to meet them and tell them they are crazy if they did! 😉
I love Sweet Tomatoes!!!! …Except I used to work there in high school. 🙁 Worst. Job. Ever. But you know a place is good when an employee will eat there for lunch out of choice. Yum!
I have never been there! But anywhere that brings me lots of food in “courses” makes me feel sophisticated… strange. but it looks good and saying no to lava cake isn´t in my vocabulary either.
Oh man, I totally get what you are saying about soupplantation. I always go there and get a heaping pile of salad with a bunch of veggies and other stuff (it still fills me up). I have (HAVE) to have the mac n cheese there, I don’t know why but I just like it alot! It must be all the butter and cheese they put in it to make it supperr creammyy!! I’m pretty much always stuffed when I go there but I manage to decline dessert on occasions if I’m full (that’s rare though). Oh well, it’s only once in awhile!
Do I spy Sweet Tomatoes?! Ugh, I love that place so so much.
We have Sweet Tomatoes near me and I LOVE it there. The pastas leave something to be desired, but the pizza and baked potato bar is worth every bite for me!
Challis Lane is a pretty good label to try wine on the cheap. They are usually part of BevMo’s 5 cent wine sale. 🙂 You know, buy one wine, and get the other for 5 cents!