Learning to cook without wine!!

[Panno]

I think my love of cooking is what really got my tastes buds going with wine. I would love nothing more than studying recipes, matching them with wines and entertaining people. I would get all my ingredients ready pour myself a glass and off I would go for hours sometimes creating the perfect dinner, but as you can imagine as the years went on that glass turned out to be a bottle before I put the dinner on the plate!! So its hard sometimes to think of cooking nice dinners without wine. I am not worried about wine being in the recipe I'm just worried it won't make it in it :H:H:H - these are my thoughts as I sit here ready to do the Sunday Dinner for this evening - fortunately I have chosen a Moroccan Lamb Tagine which does not require any alcohol, but would go nice with a glass of red BUT NOT FOR ME :H:H

[Miss October]

Learning to cook without wine!!

Panno, that's how it all started for me. Drinking wine while cooking dinnner.....they go hand and hand. Today I'm not cooking so I am so happy about that. It's just that my sister, brother, b-inlaw, nieces, nephews, will ALL be drinking. My mom will have her "one" glass So my husband and I (and my two boys) will be the only ones not drinking.....sweet !

Good luck on your wineless dinner tonight ! Happy Mother's Day !

[daybyday]

Learning to cook without wine!!

Tonight, same for me. I will be going to my sister's with a mixed bag of drinkers and non-drinkers. Luckily with this group it is not really even an issue, some do, some don't....we all seem to laugh a lot and have a good time. When I was drinking, not so much as my drinking was to such excess it usually got embarrassing or sloppy on my part....Best part is, now I remember everything that happened and what I actually ate too!! lol

[KatieB]

Learning to cook without wine!!

Panno,
What you speak of is something that is VERY common for women (and some men!!) - there is nothing more relaxing and fun with drinking a glass or 2 of wine when making dinner.. however the problem like you mention, is when you drink more and more.. I used to love doing the same, but now I cannot trust myself to keep AL in the house as it is on my mind the whole time and i end up drinking it all!
So, I have now learnt to cook without drinking.. which actually feels better with a clear head! and I can enjoy my son more, as the AL would make me so tired and demotivated! you know you are doing the right thing.. a glass of water when cooking is much healthier too!
Katie xxx

[Rags]

Learning to cook without wine!!

Hear hear Katie! Sounds just like I used to be.
I still have alcohol in the house but use it only for cooking... I have a bottle of sherry that's about 4 years old! Only use it for some asian recipes. Fortunately for me, alcohol no longer has any great importance for me. i am indeed a lucky person.

[JACQRABBIT]

Learning to cook without wine!!

DITTO!!

The dinner prep time was my witching hour too.

I'll just have a nice glass while I'm preparing the dinner...... damn it there's just a dribble left,
oh well I might as well finish it then I can throw the bottle away and no-one u'll know.

Then by the time I went to bed I would not know what we had for dinner having been lousy company all nite cos I was too loaded to keep my eyes open.

Can't say as I miss that really.

[hadit]

Learning to cook without wine!!

Aaah Panno, How true.Sat we cooked a Lamb Leg for over 10 hrs slowly in a slow cooker with a bottle of red wine thrown in for good measure........the only regret is I can barely remember what it tasted like! Would have been much more pleasant if I wasn't so sloshed! :upset: