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Veritas Wine Room (so much more than wine!)

July 18, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner

Bradley Anderson, Veritas Wine Room, Dallas, Texas

Veritas Wine Room is so much more than wine. It’s a cozy place to hang out “where everyone knows your name”… Owners Bradley and Brooks Anderson, East Dallas boys, are knowledgeable and passionate and can assist with wine selection all night long. It’s what they do. They also know how to host a Sunday night lobster boil on the third Sunday of each month. Next one = this Sunday, July 20th!

TJ’s Fresh Seafood Market + Veritas Wine Room

Once a month, feast on a huge lobster with all the fixins’. That means corn, potatoes, mussels and clams from TJ’s Fresh Seafood Market. Oh my. All for only $35. It’s a deal.

Subscribe to Veritas’ email newsletter to keep up with weekly happenings such as half-price glasses from open to close every Monday, special dinners, wine tastings and wood-fired pizza night (via Il Cane Rosso). Sometimes they have wine and chocolate tastings…

Yes. Veritas is much more than wine.

Wine, wine, everywhere wine.

Grace Grits and Gardening

Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Musical Pairing:

Under the Sea – The Little Mermaid

How to eat a lobster…

Cotton and Okra. Kissing Cousins.

July 16, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner

Did you know cotton and okra are cousins? The plants are botanically related from the same scientific family Malvaceae.

The veined leaf shapes are very similar with a reddish purple spot at the base of each petal.

The blooms are similar too.

The final product!

One fills our bellies, the other covers our bellies. I love both!

Grace Grits and Gardening

Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Musical Pairing:

Alabama – Song of the South

Annabelle and the Dinner Bell

July 15, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner

When Lucy had only been with us three or four days, I taught her to ring these bells when she wanted to go outside to do her business. She figured it out very quickly. As we tried to watch football, she rang the bells. As we tried to eat dinner, she rang the bells. Each time we grinned thinking boy, Lucy is a quick learner. And she was. In no time she trained us to jump up and run to the back door each time she rang those bells. For the most part, the bells were brilliant, Lucy became potty trained and all was well.

And then Annabelle came along.

Annabelle thinks this is the dinner bell.

Annabelle is always hungry.

She rings the bells, I open the door, she runs out, runs immediately back in then expects a treat.

Sometimes she is hungry in the middle of the night.

The bells may have to go.