A Match Made in Heaven: Columbian Beef Stew Meets Nickel & Nickel

(Heaven on earth that is!) More from the 25th Annual Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine Festival.

Chef Extreme, Chris Krotke created a sensational dish that was a heavenly match for the luscious Nickel & Nickel Winery’s-Sullenger Cabernet at our Standards of Excellence Tasting Booth at last weekend’s Tahoe Autumn Food & Wine Festival. I am excited to share his recipe as well as two quick videos highlighting the making of the dish and excellent wine pairing details. I will also post details about how to sign up for a free cooking class with Chef Chris featuring this recipe!

Chef Chris and Rachelle demonstrating Columbian Beef Stew:


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Excellent tips! Note that Chris explains that he removed the sweet potatoes and mashed them separately for this presentation. Also, some guests commented on the light color of the “mash”. Many people understandably confuse yams (dark orange) with sweet potatoes (yellow). The “snip chip” video is in the last post. This is a very kid friendly dish as you can see here, Chef Chris is giving a second helping to a young fan! Columbian Beef Stew Recipe.

More KitchenAid Excitement

Dan Dargan of Nickel & Nickel Winery guaranteed the popularity of our booth by offering John C. Sullenger 2007 Nickel & Nickel Cabernet. Nickel & Nickel Winery is famous for extraordinary single vineyard wines.

This video details the food and wine paring notes that made this such a successful match:

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Nickel & Nickel Wines

Kitchen Aid supplied the top notch chef stage and beautiful appliances in our booth. Here are the two young winners of both our “auctioned” and our “raffled” Kitchen Aid mixers. They were so excited. You must watch the video I posted last time documenting Chef de Cuisine Keven Bouchard’s joyous winning moment! He was so much fun; I am going to feature him and his restaurant, Chocolate Bar in a post next week.

Chef de Cuisine Keven Bouchard

So, with all of this culinary excitement, how about adding a free Cooking Class and Dinner Event to the mix? Standards of Excellence Appliances hosts monthly Food for Thought Cooking Events with Chef Chris every third Wednesday of the month from 6:30-8:30 at our gorgeous showroom at 7525 Colbert Drive in Reno, Nevada.



Note: YOU MUST pre-register by calling 1-775-852-5600 or e-mailing Deana at dchambers@soesupply.com, an R.S.V.P. is required. We have to put your name on our guest list to reserve a place as seating is limited!


Wow! Food, wine, cooking events, expert staff, top notch appliances and private cooking classes… this is why we are called Standards of Excellence!