#sizzlinwithSAS: Bacon Salad! BACON Salad! - Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery
April 17, 2021


Sue-Ann's Annual Holiday Sip & Savour Open House $45+HST

When: Saturday, December 13, 11 - 5 

Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery

What:  Sue-Ann's Holiday Sip & Savour is back!

We are rolling out the red carpet for a delicious day of holiday flavours! Our Holiday Sip & Savour is the ultimate holiday open house for wine lovers and foodies alike!

Enjoy deluxe wine & food tasting stations on the way -- we are opening our premium wines, pairing them with delicious foods to warm and delight your senses. Plan to spend an amazing hour touring and tasting your way through Sue-Ann's home!

Check out the menu here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0633/8109/files/Holiday_S_S_2025_menu_PDF.pdf?v=1764954524

Tickets are $45+HST per person. $5 from each ticket sale will be donated to the Howard V. Staff Memorial Fund at the Niagara Community Foundation, supporting St. Catharines Community Care. 

Buy your tickets here: https://www.sue-annstaff.com/collections/events/products/holiday-sip-savor-open-house-2025-45-hst

 

Save the date!

Shortbread Showdown: Sip & Stock Up

When: Saturday, December 20 and Sunday, December 21, 11-5

Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery

What: Stop into the winery and join the fun! Try four mini shortbread & wine pairings and then cast your vote for the best cookie and best pairing! It's a great little break from holiday fuss AND you can stock up on feast-worthy wines while you're at it!

$10 per person, with $5 going to The Howard V. Staff Memorial Fund at the Niagara Community Foundation, supporting community care.

No advance tickets or reservations required, simply show up and pay $10 to participate!

 

Reservations open! Book now!

The Holiday Board: Flight & Bites

When: December 27 & 28, January 3 & 4

Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery

What: The Holiday Board: Flight & Bites is the perfect post-Christmas treat!

You've done all the cooking. You've done all the hosting. You've assembled, you've wrapped, you've done it all. Now it's your turn to sit back and relax! 

Reserve your time now for an elevated wine tasting that will delight your senses, taking place December 27 & 28, January 3 & 4 at Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery. 

Enjoy a seated tasting of four wines, each one perfectly paired with a delectable small bite.

It's like a four-course meal...in miniature!

  • Fancy Farm Girl Flirty Bubbles sparkling rosé with Creamy Brie & Cranberry
  • The Louie Pinot Gris with Duck Rillette with Blueberry Jam & Cornichon
  • The Gritstone Cabernet with "SASsoulet", our deconstructed sausage cassoulet
  • Howard's Icewine Vidal with a White Chocolate Coconut Almond confection

$24.50 per person, reservations highly recommended! Book now: https://www.sue-annstaff.com/products/the-holiday-board-flight-bite-december-27-28-january-3-4

 

In the new year...

Icewine Festival Discovery Pass

When: January 16-18,23-25, 30-February 1, 2026

Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery and other participating Niagara wineries! 

What:  Sip, Savour & Explore Niagara This Winter! Get ready for a self-guided tasting tour through Niagara’s most scenic vineyards! The Icewine Discovery Pass pairs world-class Icewines with spicy, savoury, or sweet bites from inspired local chefs — the perfect way to warm up your winter weekends.

Our offering? Tinga, Tango, Taco! Imagine juicy, spicy Tinga de Pollo (chicken in a smoky tomato/chipotle sauce) tucked into a warm, soft corn tortilla, dressed with lime crema and a cilantro garnish. Paired with our 2018 Vidal Icewine, it’s a divine marriage of spice and ice!

Find all the information and tickets you need here: https://niagarawinefestival.com/icewine-discovery-pass

 


#sizzlinwithSAS: Bacon Salad! BACON Salad!

Sue-Ann puts the sizzle back in #sizzlinwithSAS today with a recipe for Bacon Salad!
Yeah, you read that right! BACON SALAD!

Bacon Salad Appetizer

 Ingredients:

  • 1 head of endive or radicchio (other bitter leaves of choice that make a good serving vessel!)
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic, clove crushed (not chopped)
  • 8 ounces bacon, cut into ½’ pieces
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • 5 teaspoons cider vinegar
  • Dash Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 medium apple, cut into matchstick pieces sliced on a mandolin
  • Couple of cracks of black pepper
  • salted or BBQ peanuts (chopped) or Hickory Sticks to garnish

 

Directions:
Break apart endive into individual full leaves.  Crisp them in clean, cold salted water bath for ~20 minutes.

 

Over medium flame, heat olive oil in a frying pan (ideally with tall sides just to minimize the mess).  Once warm, add garlic clove and allow to poach in olive oil for ~5 min.  Remove clove.  Continue medium heat and fry bacon until crisp, about 5 minutes (you may have to work in batches). Transfer bacon with a slotted to a bowl.

 

Add the Dijon mustard to the bacon juices in the pan and whisk to combine.  Add vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and black pepper.  Whisk again.  Tossing in bacon and apple.

 

To serve:

Using tongs, fill the endive leaves with bacon mixture.  Top with peanuts or hickory sticks.
Serve immediately.

 

Additional notes:
When we made this for Get Fresh In The Valley in ~2014(?), we used 3 different kinds of bacon: -applewood smoked bacon; Cherry Pink bacon from Bartlett Road, Beamsville; and a custom / private order of Berkshire bacon from pigs raised at our good friends Dave and Louise at Featherstone Estate Winery.

Paired with 2019 Bank Barn Baco Noir and 2018 Swing Barn Baco Noir Reserve on #sizzlinwithSAS April 17, 2021

 


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