Before you cook: Nicholas' wine library

• Chateaux of the Medoc by Ken Kincaid
• Vintage Wine: Fifty Years of Tasting Three Centuries of Wine by Michael Broadbent
• Wine for Dummies by Ed McCarthy and Mary Ewing-Mulligan
• The Encyclopedic Atlas of Wine, Catherine Fallis, editor
• Jancis Robinson's Wine Course by Jancis Robinson
• Grapes and Wines by Oz Clarke
• Champagne by Serena Sutcliffe
• Romanee-Conti by Richard Olney
• German Wine Guide by Armin Diel and Joel Payne
• Napa by James Conaway
• The Sommelier's Guide to Wine by Brian H. Smith
• Through Europe with a Jug of Wine by Morrison Wood
• Michael Broadbent's Pocket Guide to Wine Tasting
• Fear of Wine by Leslie Brenner
• Oz Clarke's New Encyclopedia of French Wines by Oz Clarke
• Windows on The World: Complete Wine Course by Kevin Zraly
• The Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil
• The New Wine Lover's Companion by Ron Herbst and Sharon Tyler Herbst
• The Wine Avenger by Willie Gluckstern (Start here;D)
• Frank Schoonmaker's Encyclopedia of Wine
• How to Enjoy Your Wine by Hugh Johnson
• Vintage: The Story of Wine by Hugh Johnson
• How to Taste by Jancis Robinson
• Wine, ed. by Andre Domine
• American Bar by Charles Schumann
  

Now you can cook.

Beef
Rouladins
Pepper steak
Pot roast
Salisbury steak
Greek beef and potato stew
Southern French meatballs ("boules de picolat")
Porcupine meatballs
Brisket Arcadia
Excellent chili
Oxtails with grapes
Boeuf Bouilli
Inside-out hamburgers
Moroccan meat loaf

Breads and sandwiches
Poached egg and spinach
Grilled cheese sandwich
Pizza
Cheese and mushroom casserole (a bread pudding)
Challah

Vegetables
Frenched green beans
Etuveed shredded carrots
Mastering fried potatoes
Creamed onions
Irish potatoes, or Colcannon

Rice, Pasta, and Side dishes
Risotto
Fettucine Alfredo
Chestnuts
"Giulia's dry rice and fresh tomato sauce"
Latkes (fried potato pancakes)
Apple stuffing
Wisconsin cheddar spoon bread

Chicken and turkey
Grilled chicken, dry rice and tomato sauce
Roast chicken with olive sauce
Sweet Italian turkey sausage with peppers and garlic
Mulligatawny
Chicken "oysters" (sot-l'y-laisse)
Chicken fricassee
Coq au vin (at your own risk)
"Suburban duck breasts"
Chicken breasts in cream sauce a la Julia Child

Soups
Vegetable soup with spinach quiche
Grape-harvesters' soup
Cauliflower soup with cinnamon
Cream of tomato soup
Occitanian soup (bean and vegetable)

Fish
Salmon delight
Salmon and cucumber salad (and Kerner)

Desserts
Poached pears
Chocolate cake with creamy chocolate frosting
Charoset pie
French breakfast puffs
Toffee coffee chocolate chip bars
Brown sugar brownies
Norma Shearer's apple shortbread meringue, with Pama
Chocolate glazed rum fudge brownies
Pecan torte with mocha filling and sauce Jose

Snacky-wackies
Potato chips and dip

Miscellaneous
A classic movie meal
Wine with dinner, circa 1896
Cherry zinfandel barbecue sauce
Strawberries in port
Pickled raccoon