Wine on the Radio - April 2, 2003

Cooking with Wine 

Cooking with wine doesn't mean you should use "cooking wine."

You've seen it at the grocery store.  

Cooking wine is loaded with salt and preservatives and really not a good way to enhance a recipe!

But cooking with wine is a basic part of many recipes.  

Adding wine is a way to enhance flavor and tie ingredients together.

You wouldn't use stale, spoiled or bad food ingredients so you should think the same way about the wine you use.

Don't think you have to cook with the wine you're going to serve . . . that gets too expensive.     But you should use a wine you would drink . . . just don't pay a lot.  

Five dollars a bottle is a reasonable limit and there are many decent wines at that price to cook with.

Want another tip?  

Tomorrow's dinner is a great way to use that four or five ounces left from tonight's dinner wine.

In the meal and with the meal . . . wine adds another dimension to good food.

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