Cooking Wine?

This was a great post. I love to cook, but have always feared cookign with wine b/c 1) I don't drink wine and 2) I had it in a dish once and I didn't care for the taste of it.

This post makes me want to try and cook with it.

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Posted by Kimbalina

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Posted by Mici n KC

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Posted by Kimbalina

Ok thanks Dana... can you tell me what a good dry white wine would be?

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I like to use pinot grigio.

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I have a bottle of this at home from a christmas gift.. and I haven't opened it yet!

Thanks!

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Just remember to drink some while you're cooking

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Posted by Jenn04

Hey I forgot to respond to your other questions....for the Chicken Franchaise...any white is fine! Or I think you can buy 'cooking wine' in salad dressing aisle.

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No worries!! Thanks for letting me know!

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Posted by Mici n KC

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Posted by Kimbalina

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Posted by Mici n KC

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Posted by Kimbalina

Ok thanks Dana... can you tell me what a good dry white wine would be?

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I like to use pinot grigio.

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I have a bottle of this at home from a christmas gift.. and I haven't opened it yet!

Thanks!

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Just remember to drink some while you're cooking

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Ha!! I can do that! Thanks again!

I cook w/ one that u can drink b/c A) I WANT to drink it and B) the flavor intensifys when it cooks. Those 'cooking wines' in the supermarket are mostly sodium anyway. Yucky!

It doesnt have to be an expensive one..like a Beringers would be fine. I buy the 4 pack of the Beringers Pino Grigio 7 oz bottles to keep on hand for cooking.

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Posted by ChristineAaron08

I cook w/ one that u can drink b/c A) I WANT to drink it and B) the flavor intensifys when it cooks. Those 'cooking wines' in the supermarket are mostly sodium anyway. Yucky!

It doesnt have to be an expensive one..like a Beringers would be fine. I buy the 4 pack of the Beringers Pino Grigio 7 oz bottles to keep on hand for cooking.

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Great idea!! Thank you Christine!

Definately use a drinking wine for your recipes the taste will be better. If you are a non-drinker you can freeze the remaining wine in ice cube trays and then put the cubes in a freezer bag to keep for future use. I do that with reds b/c I only drink white wine.
You can buy a good Marsala wine in a liquor store that will taste better than the supermarket sells.

I cook with wine all the time. It's so simple to brown chicken, or veal or beef and then remove the meat .. add wine and broth to the pan, scrape the bits up, and add a pat of butter and some cornstarch to thicken and you have a delicious gravy.

Happy Cooking!

You want to cook with something that you like because when you cook it reduces and tastes stronger.

For a white cooking wine, I usually do pinot grigio because it's crisp but not as sharp as chardonnay. For red, I usually use cabernet sauvignon. I like Barefoot wines-$6 a bottle and they taste pretty good. FM me if you want recipes.

For white wine recipes i use Pinot grigio.

for red wine recipes i use Merlot

otherwise i use a cooking wine from the supermarket, i.e. marsala.

White wines I use a pinot or a sauvignon blanc
For Red Wine I used a cabernet sauvignon

I stock up on Trader Joe's Two Buck Chuck for cooking wine!