Cooking with wine

[MelCald]

I want to make some mussels tonight and saute them in white wine and garlic, but I don't have any white wine. Can I use White Zinfandel instead??

Thanks

 

[Quackmore]

I want to make some mussels tonight and saute them in white wine and garlic, but I don't have any white wine. Can I use White Zinfandel instead??

Thanks

Absolutely!!!! Just save some to drink too!!!!

 

[MelCald]

Nah..I am a red wine drinker..the only reason I have the white zin is neither dh or I will drink it!!! I don't even know where it came from.

But thanks..I have never heard of cooking with white zin.

Melissa

 

[Rowena]

You can cook with it...but the mussels won't be the same as sauted in white wine.

Save the white zin to make a nice sauce for chicken, and get a cheap bottle of sauvignon blanc for the mussels, or skip the wine altogether and add a little lemon juice to some water with garlic.

 

[QT Pooh]

It'll be sweeter than if you cooked with a dry white, but you can do it. If you have vermouth or sherry, that would probably be better.

 

[septbride2002]

I'm with Rowena - save the Zin and go purchase a $5 bottle Chardonay or Pino Grigio.

~Amanda

 

[Bichon Barb]

I like to cook with wine. Sometimes I even add some to the dish I'm making.

 

[MelCald]

Hmmm...maybe I will just skip it then. I would go to the store, but I am a daycare provider and have kids up until dh gets home for dinner. I don't think it would look too good if I brought 5 daycare kids to the store to buy a bottle of wine!!!

Melissa

 

[septbride2002]

I like to cook with wine. Sometimes I even add some to the dish I'm making.

Girl after my own heart. Now if you would just watch Buffy!

 

[CheshireVal]

I like to cook with wine. Sometimes I even add some to the dish I'm making.

I always have to drink a glass of wine (or two) while I'm standing in the kitchen cooking. It makes the job so much more enjoyable.

 

[Bichon Barb]

Girl after my own heart. Now if you would just watch Buffy!

For you! I may just try it. But first I need to go out and rent Season One of "Lost". I have to see what it is that everyone is talking about.

 

[Crankyshank]

My specialty is cooking with booze
Don't use the zin with mussels- it's way too sweet for it.