The web postings from a radio wine show broadcast in our area includes various recipes. At first I thought the focus was on how to stock wine racks ready for pairing with their ideas for curry, turkey, pizza etc. While this is true, I noticed something else: there is a lot of wine in the recipes themselves, and not just teaspoons. Whole glasses of the stuff. Maybe I wasn’t looking for wine in food before, but now I see it everywhere. There’s something trendy about pouring two glasses of wine: one for yourself, the other for your pan of mushroom curry. The children think it is just plain funny:
‘We’re drinking wine, mum! We’re going to get all silly!’
‘No, you most definitely are not.’
‘But we saw you pour it into the pan, and we’re eating it right now!’
‘Let me explain a little bit of chemistry to you…’
Actually, if I were to let them believe what they wanted to, the girls would be even more willing to try new things, but I just can’t go along with it. They have their own kind of silly, and that’s plenty.
This gets me thinking that all newly built larders should have space saver wine racks, just where the tins of soup once would have gone. Who needs those? With all of that wine, we’ll be making our own soup. My sister confessed that, after years of cooking beef stew, she only just started adding a glass of chardonnay and it’s the best stew she’s ever tasted. She’s a pretty good cook, so I believe her.
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