Vittles and Vino #AtoZChallenge

If you are looking for my Music Moves Me post, please click here.  But I hope you'll stay here for some refreshments.  You deserve them!

It's "V" day in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, and we A to Zers are Very tired.  We need refreshments!

No worries.  I am here to provide them.

Since my theme is "New York State" I wanted to start with a regional specialty in Central New York- stretch bread.  This is the Patisserie, in Skaneateles, New York, which (along with a couple of other places) sells stretch bread.  This is similar (but not exact) to Italian bread.

The bread was even the subject of a 2014 lawsuit, settled in 2019.

 Veggies are an important part of a balanced diet.  Let's check out one of New York's many farmers market.  This one is in Victor, New York. 

Time for some fruit.  Not much out there right now, but in Vestal, New York I saw this tree blooming recently.  I think it's an apple tree. 

Now, it's time to put the meal together.

Poughkeepsie, New York, is home to the Culinary Institute of America, where some of the best chefs in the world have been trained.  On a tour, I saw this work of art, called the Gastrotypographicalassemblage.  Here's the story behind it.

Some of the detail.

By now you must be getting hungry for some dessert.  These are for sale to the public when we visited in 2019.  I purchased a couple of cowboy cookies (don't tell my Weight Watchers coach) and boy, were they good.  Here's a recipe from former First Lady Laura Bush.  I have no idea how the CIA makes them.

I know you've been waiting for the wine course.  It's time!  This is part of the only wine tasting we went to in 2020, at the Lucas Vineyard on Cayuga Lake.  Due to COVID, it was held a little differently.

Samples in plastic, bottled wine, individual servings of crackers.  (The other item on the left is cheese curds, made, of course, in New York State.

I did promise you a couple of more pictures of the historic Pleasant Valley Wine Company and I'm here to complete that tour.  Ah, if only, we could have sat on that lovely dining room table just past the stairs.

But now, refreshments are over, and it's time to leave.  I hope you enjoyed these Views.

"V" day on the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  My theme:  New York State.