Semillon Food Pairing
Here is a list of food items that make an ideal pairing
with your Semillon wine provided by
EatDrinkDine.com
and a few ideas of my own:


•        Antipasto, baked goat cheese, caviar, deviled eggs,
escargots, smoked fish or shellfish, chicken, goose or
vegetable pate’s, prosciutto

•        Gorgonzola or Maytag blue cheeses, cottage, cream or
fromage blanc cream style cheeses, goat cheese, mozzarella,
mild cheddar, Fontina, Gouda, Jarlsberg, Swiss and Brie or
Camembert

•        Bouillabaisse, chicken or turkey soup, New England
Clam Chowder, oyster stew, vegetable soup, seafood bisque
or chowder and vichyssoise

•        Chef’s salad, chicken salad, Chinese chicken salad,
crab or shrimp louis, endive salad, green salad with smoked
chicken or trout, lobster salad, pasta or potato salad,
Waldorf salad

•        BLT sandwich, fish and chips, quesadillas, salami or
cold cut sandwiches and vegetarian wraps

•        Fried or saute’ed calamari, halibut grilled, saute’ed or
in butter/cream sauce, grilled or roasted monkfish, saute’ed
red snapper, rock cod baked, deep fried or saute’ed, salmon
carpaccio, baked or saute’ed sea bass, seafood brochette or
paella, sole almandine, sole in butter/cream/lemon sauce,
swordfish baked or saute’ed, tilapia saute’ed, trout grilled,
saute’ed or smoked, tuna carpaccio, tuna pan-seared, raw or
sashimi

•        Saute’ed abalone, clams in cream or white sauce, clams
or crab steamed/boiled, lobster Newberg, grilled or
steamed/boiled lobster, mussels steamed or in wine sauce,
poached oysters, oysters Rockefeller, scallops in garlic and
olive oil or wine sauce, shrimp saute’ed with garlic, soft shell
crab

•        Chicken in butter/cream/white wine sauce, lemon
chicken, chicken baked, broiled, roasted or fried, chicken pot
pie, roasted cornish hen or turkey

•        Roasted game hen, pheasant or quail, rabbit

•        Baked ham, suate’ed pork chops, pork roast, pork
tenderloin, sweetbreads saute’ed with cream sauce, saute’ed
veal chops, veal scallopine, veal roast

•        Paella, polenta with butter and cheese, steamed white
rice, risotto with vegetables or seafood

•        Avocado, carrots glazed or saute’ed, corn on the cob,
roasted garlic, saute’ed mushrooms, potatoes baked, mashed
or saute’ed, creamed spinach, acorn or butternut squash,
mashed or pureed sweet potatoes, tofu

•        Ricotta cannelloni, savory crepes, flat bread focaccia,
gnocchi with butter, sage, cheese, cream, pesto or seafood
sauce, vegetable lasagna, macaroni and cheese, pasta with
cheese, cream, alfredo, clam, basil pesto, or seafood sauce,
vegetable pizza

•        Biryani, ceviche, curry chicken or seafood, chicken or
shrimp Chow Fun/Mein, Donburi, egg rolls, fried rice, garlic
chicken, gumbo, moussaka, orange chicken, pad thai, pan-
blackened fish, salsa, seafood with coconut milk, spring roll,
chicken or fish Sukiyaki, Sweet and Sour Pork, chicken
tajines or tandoori tempura

•        Almond tart, angel food cake, baked, poached or fresh
apples/pears, bread pudding, cheesecake, cre’me brule’e, cre’
me caramel, dessert cre’pes, baked figs, vanilla ice cream,
baked or fresh peaches/apricots, apple, pear, berry, peach,
apricot and especially lemon pies, pound cake, rice pudding,
lemon, lime, orange, caramel or vanilla souffle’, tropical
fruits
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