Good food, good beer, good wine, good times

This past weekend was a blast. My husband, myself and a group of friends went to Wenwood Farms winery for there Harvest Home Festival. It's a contest for local brewers and wine makers. You get to taste all the homemade wine and beer then you vote on your favorite in each category. The categories are: dry wine, sweet wine, semi sweet/dry wine, whole grain beer, and extract beer. They have music as well as arts and crafts vendors. All the proceeds go to supportclass Earth's classroom. The best thing is that my husband and his friend entered a beer in the whole grain category and won first place! This was their first competition so we were reallly excited. They won a medal, a hand thrown mug and a tour of the O'Fallon brewery for 8 people.
Sunday my husband and I went to Ferrigno winery and ate a picnic lunch of cheese, sausage and fruit. We enjoyed a bottle of their Primavera, a white semi-dry wine that's perfect for a warm day. It was a great weekend!

I don't believe it!

I can't believe it I missed Iron Cupcake again! I even had my cupcake made and everything! Maybe I was naive to think that a homeschooling mom with 3 kids would have the time to do this, or maybe I'm just forgetful! Oh well, I'll tell you a little about my cupcake anyways. I made an ice cream cupcake! It had 3 layers. The first layer was a lemon cake, the second layer was a basil ice cream and the top layer was raspberry preserves. It was OK, but I actually liked the ice cream alone better.

I vow to make next months entry!!

Basil!

That's the next ingredient in the Iron Cupcake challenge! I have until September 25th to submit my original recipe. I have a few ideas swimming around in my head, but nothing to definite.
I have to say I don't use a lot of basil, and I've definitely never used it as a dessert before. I'm excited though. This is why I joined Iron Cupcake, so I could challenge myself.