Food and wine, wine and food. We all know how sublimely well this combination can work. It's a fun but challenging process, learning how to fine-tune our palates to detect, appreciate and suggest good pairings of our own. But sometimes, there's no reason to reinvent the wheel, especially when you have bloggers like Wine Country Cook within a click's distance.

Lori Lyn Narlock is the Napa-based writer, cook and collector behind Wine Country Cook and we lean on her expertise to bring elegant, manageable dishes to our tables - with various beverages to match. After all, as a wife and mom herself, she admits the recipes are "all pretty easy because I know we're all strapped for time."