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From a reader:

So we went nuts and had breakfast for dinner. Poached eggs for the wife, fried eggs for me. Hash browns, turkey bacon. A little tomatillo salsa for me, on the eggs.

Let’s rule out champagne or mimosas. What wine do you have with breakfast, when you’re not eating it in the a.m.?

It’s an interesting question. But I find this pairing to be driven more by what’s on the plate than by the time of day. So why rule out Champagne? It might just make this…possible! Hit the comments with your thoughts!

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Conventional wisdom: artichokes and wine are an impossible food-wine pairing!

Tim Hanni sez: add salt and lemon juice to the water while cooking them to mitigate a strong sweet taste or a strong bitter taste that people get while tasting wine (or water!) with them.

What say you? Hit the comments with your thoughts, on this, our most impossible-ist pairing ever!!

For details on Tim Hanni, check out the WSJ story on him from Saturday’s paper.

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It’s really more of an autumnal dish but, hey, a reader just sent in this query: which wine would you pair with butternut squash soup? Post your thoughts in the comments below!

I like the soup to have the zip of ginger but yours can be as you like it. Michael Ruhlman would now doubt tell us it’s all about the stock used anyway.

OK, it’s not a seasonal dish. But it’s a popular one!

Help us in the latest food challenge — which wine would you pair with: shrimp pad thai!

I don’t think it needs any explaining. But in case you haven’t picked up a take-out menu in recent years (or been to one of the many Thai BYOB restos), the main wine challenges are the sweet-ish spicy sauce, a little egg, rich shrimp, and the chopped nuts. Go crazy!

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It’s Thanksgiving time. And you know what that means: crazy side dishes!

One of the craziest of them all is candied yams–sweet potatoes imbued with maple syrup and butter, topped with marshmallows.

What’s your suggested wine pairing for this oddball food that goes with Butterball? Comments are open!

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OK people. It’s Saturday morning. If you’re thinking about wine at all, it’s probably for tonight’s blowout dinner with friends. But before that, there’s brunch to consider.

And what better than the new breakfast burrito bomb from Hardee’s! Let’s cut to the AP for the description:

…two egg omelets filled with bacon, sausage, diced ham, cheddar cheese, hash browns and sausage gravy, all wrapped inside a flour tortilla. The burrito contains 920 calories and 60 grams of fat.

Now is that an IMPOSSIBLE wine pairing or what?!? Talk about a power breakfast. Don’t get faked out by the sheer quantity–just keep your eye on the components. Comments are open for your suggestions.

Hardee’s item via The Consumerist.

We’re back with our “impossible” pairings of food we eat here in America with wines we drink! The latest installment is…

chili con carne

Comments are open!

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Our “impossible food-wine pairings” continues! In this series, we look at foods we enjoy in America that present an impossible wine challenge! We have previously digested chips and salsa, nori, and the falafel sandwich. And now, for all the meat-a-tarians who were getting cranky, we present our first meat dish…

Chicken tikka masala!

Comments are open.

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