I have a hand cramp. My right pinky is all uncomfortable after spending about 20 hours this weekend holding a mouse and working on the computer. I need a serious break from that computer. For sure.
While I was holed up in the study all weekend, Jose was playing his new video game. It’s called God of War III and it came out last week. Your character is mad and wants to kill Zeus, along with all the other gods along the way to Mt. Olympus. (Yes, that is my entire summary of the game.) Anyway, it is horribly, HORRIBLY bloody. I’m talking FOUNTAINS of blood. Jose was laughing at a lot of it because it was so over the top, but at one point he stopped (it was probably right after he ripped the horns off a minotaur and stabbed the thing with them, or something like that) and said quite seriously: “I’m not sure I would ever want to play this game in front of a kid.” Um, ya think?? And they say video games are too violent…
Last night I made a delicious dinner of pasta with shrimp and tomato cream sauce. It was the only thing I did on Saturday and Sunday that didn’t involve sitting in front of a computer, and it was yummy. The recipe called for white wine, so I opened a bottle that’s been in our fridge since last summer, when someone gave it to us as a housewarming present. (Neither one of us is a huge white wine fan, which is why it had sat so long.) Much to my surprise, it was absolutely delicious — sweet and fruity, almost like a dessert wine but not quite. I did use a small amount in the pasta sauce, and then we drank almost all of the rest of the bottle! It was the muscat canelli from Fall Creek Vineyard, which is a winery in the Texas hill country. I’m betting they have it around here somewhere, and I fully intend to buy more.
chances are it was more fruity due to the length of time in your fridge. most will get that way over time due to the sugar. most wines, when bought, should be opened and consumed in a relatively short period of time or the ‘taste’ changes, sometimes dramatically. just a thought.
If you were supposed to always drink wine right away, there’d be no point to people having wine cellars. I know the taste changes with time, but I’ve always thought that you’ve got a good 1-2 years at a minimum to drink it and with some varieties, a lot more years than that. I just found an “aging potential” chart online that lists anywhere from 1-5 years for a muscat.
In any case, I’d “age” this one the same way again, because it was YUM.
Most games have an option to tune down the gore. Generally I chose to.