Author: Robin Bogue

Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify 2024 Dine Out Santa Maria Style and Craft Cocktail Contest was a month long in the Santa Maria Valley. Follow along as my friends and I visited the establishments participating in this year’s festivities. We tasted amazing food, visited new businesses and enjoyed laughter and camaraderie all in the name of provisions and libations. To find out our favorite meal, listen until the end of the show. We share our favorite meals along the way and we share a few insights from the night’s adventure. I am looking forward to next year already. What a great idea…

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Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify A recount of all the choices you can choose from for Valentine’s Day, in regards to Chocolate.  I spent a week experimenting with all the types of chocolates, mint, milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate along with nuts, caramels, and cream filling. To learn more, visit:https://eatdrinkandbemerry.online/provisions-libation-podcast/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/robin-bogue

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Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify What is your favorite Super Bowl menu item? BBQ chicken wings or a bowl of chili? And a quick conversation with Dennis from the Barrel Room at the Santa Maria Inn as he was on shift serving up cocktails. To learn more, visit:https://eatdrinkandbemerry.online/provisions-libation-podcast/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/robin-bogue

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Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify A Sunday morning brainstorming session and breakfast are good when you enjoy diner-style food with a cup of coffee or a tall glass of orange juice. My co-host, Victoria, and I ate at Pappy’s Diner in Santa Maria off the 101 freeway while creating content for this podcast. We both enjoyed omelets but chose two very different styles than the other. She had a Ranchero, and I ordered a California-style Omelet. She also ordered Rye bread while I ordered an English Muffin. Both meals are considered healthy but hers was healthier than mine. Listen along as we…

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Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify A trip to wine country in January means one thing, no lines, and a chance for excellent service due to dry January followers. In this case, I am not a follower. Dry January means no alcohol, to dry out from partaking too much during the holidays. I don’t agree with the concept as it is detrimental to the wine industry in which I love and have been part of for years. It’s a stress and burden on the economy in wine country. This last weekend during a short drive to Ballard Canyon we spent an afternoon tasting…

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Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify Feast of Seven Fishes is an American Italian tradition served on Christmas Eve. Each course is especially prepared by family members crossing over multiple generations. Each course has a fish presence and at least seven different fishes are served during this festive meal. To learn more, visit:https://eatdrinkandbemerry.online/provisions-libation-podcast/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/robin-bogue

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Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify Live from España. A conversation between two friends as one travels the Mediterranean Coast and the other at home. Victoria takes us down the lane of Alicante Spain through his visits to a museum full of Picasso paintings, old world architecture, seafood, olives, old vines and wines and Sangria from Rioja. To learn more, visit:https://eatdrinkandbemerry.online/provisions-libation-podcast/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/robin-bogue

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Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify An afternoon baking cookies is a pure joy. With the addition of children, it becomes an immense joy. I spent an afternoon with Michelle as she baked cookies with her friends’ children as their pretend grandma and pretend grandchildren. As they, the children, measured ingredients and counted out chocolate chips, Michelle lovingly taught the children math and English in her baking routine. By the end of the day, the children sat around the dinner table, dunked their cookies into milk, and talked about how good they were and wanted to go for round 2 with oatmeal raisin…

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Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify BBQ competitions are so much more than hanging out by the pit. Skills involve: Choosing the right products. Lighting the pit adequately to maintain a proper temperature. Finding the correct seasoning for the meat, and so much more. Listen as I take you through the journey of our all-girl team, The Barbie Q’rs, and our practice schedule through game day and the awards we won. To learn more, visit:https://eatdrinkandbemerry.online/provisions-libation-podcast/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/robin-bogue

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Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify A day on the farm is a day well spent. Attending Santa Barbara County’s Farm Day in the Santa Maria Valley is full of fun interactive activities for the community to engage their senses. Join a tour by a tractor ride with a trailer full of hay, hop on a tractor and pretend to drive the rows of a crop, or take a bite of a crisp raw vegetable hand-picked that morning to taste its freshness. No matter where you go, you learn a little bit about where our food comes from. Regenerative farming is a holistic…

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Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify Natalie, a writer, podcaster, and wine critic tells us about her new book; Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much, a tell-all memoir about her life post divorce. She bravely recounts her life and what she went through as a single mother and the challenges she faced when her work world collided as well. Natalie rose above all and stood her ground. When asked if she was a wine what wine would she be; she replied Pinot Noir. I on the other hand replied for myself, Chardonnay! Natalie MacLean,…

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/5FVe38A34nzn12dx6WKxHY?si=5dr1BovVSAmB_OMU2NERhg Subscribe: iTunes / Spotify Meet two exceptional winemakers from Santa Barbara County, Chuck and Ricki. Between the two of them they make everything from Chardonnay to Petite Sirah. This year’s harvest will prove to be fruitful but not without consequence due to the amount of rain we experienced this year. The benefits from all the rain will be more prominent with next year’s harvest. From watching the wave sets to timing the fog burn off, wine making begins in the spring in the vineyard and is governed by Mother Nature herself. Listen along as we explore making wine with this…

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