Aunt Bea
Master Chef
I don't think the wine with which one cooks has to be as good as the one will serve with supper. It should be good enough for the chef to enjoy while cooking.
That sounds like a tip from Maggie Smith on Downton Abbey!
I don't think the wine with which one cooks has to be as good as the one will serve with supper. It should be good enough for the chef to enjoy while cooking.
Can I go off topic for just a second? Good. Thanks.
My MIL used to keep big bottles of different kinds of booze in her cabinet. When they got empty, she would buy a little bottle and pour it into the larger bottle so that guests wouldn't think she was cheap.
Good thick, chunky, tasty soup made with vegetables (onions, carrots, garlic, a bell pepper and any veg in season and therefore cheap) a tin of tomatoes, stock from a cube or can, dried or fresh herbs, salt and pepper, a tin of chick peas or cannelini beans or dried red lentils. If you have a blender or processor pulse it to a chunky puree or mash some of the veg with a fork or potato masher. Serve with good bread and cheese. (the cheese can be grated and scattered on the soup if you like) Follow up with fruit in season - apples go well with cheese - and you have more than your 5-a-day portions of furit and veg and all of your important food groups.Anything cheap for two!
Recently read consumer reports on inexpensive wines. They said Trader Joes, Chardonnay at $3.00@ bottle was a first pick in a blind study.Has anybody used Trader Joe's brand for cooking and liked it?Hard to believe it was considered a number one drinking wine in its class. We don't have a Trader Joe's in our town .I would travel a little distance if it was worth it. We have an Aldi which is Joe's parent company from Germany, but food stores are not allowed to sell wine in our state. Not that far to go out of state for a good cooking wine. Any comments appreciated.
Life's too short to drink bad wine. Save he two bucks, put it together with next week's two bucks and perhaps the following week's two bucks and buy a decent bottle with the save six bucks. Something to look forward to and worth looking forward to.Trader Joes has 'two buck chuck'.
Charles Shaw wine for two bucks. It doesn't taste great but what do you expect for two bucks.
Truer words ain't never been spoke.Life's too short to drink bad wine.