Shed Horn Cellars this Saturday!

Hi!  Heidi here!

Monique thinks this isn't appropriate blog fodder, but while she's off doing her scrapbooking (I think THAT'S a silly hobby!), I thought I'd hop on here and let you know that La Petite Rive is hosting a Winemaker's dinner for the Wine & Mushroom Festival this Saturday night, November 13th, at 6:30 p.m. with Shed Horn Cellars wines and Michael, the winemaker and owner of the winery.

Michael's Dad was a bronco rider, which makes him horse people by blood, which is the next best thing to being miniature donkey people.

His wines have been winning lots of awards lately, but they wouldn't be paired with Troy and Mel's fantastic food unless they were deliciously drinkable and good with food. We don't hold with wine snobbery up here. We are all about enjoyment.

Shed Horn Cellars is in lovely Lake County -- just look at this lake!

And La Petite Rive has planned an amazing dinner to show off the generous pourings. Nobody should miss it because who knows if it will ever happen again?

Gotta run! Hope to see you up here Saturday.

--Heidi

It's officially Mushroom Season in Mendocino...

This giant grew in our meadow

 
November is the beginning of mushroom season. We LOVE mushroom season! The mushroom festival is only one part of the fun.

La Petite Rive is having a winemaker's dinner with Shed Horn Cellars here on November 13th in honor of the festival.

Not that we would know. I'm not going to take up any more room here on the blog complaining about the lack of donkey seatings at our on-site restaurant, a fabulous spot that features French homestyle cooking (which means delicious), married to local Northern California ingredients and techniques (which means wholesome and mostly organic).

I'm simply going to enjoy the mushrooms popping up in the meadows all around us and bask in the reflected glory of their savory little wonderfulness. Here in Mendocino we have mushrooms that won't grow anywhere else on earth, including the sweet candy cap which tastes like maple sugar. They are so sweet and fragrant, people up here make ice cream with them!