Well I cut up my sirlion roast, onion and mushrooms added my grape
tomatoes whole and 2 cloves of garlic sliced, seasoned with chevril,
fresh ground pepper, and salt. Added 1 cup merlot, about 1/4 cup sherry
and enough beef stock to come about 1/3 to 1/2 way up the pan, put on the
lid and into the oven it went @ 300F I figure to stir and check in on it
in say 2 hours.

The pork butt was great...I gave the cook a kudos in the way of a second
helping.

I'm not a wine drinker as per say...so I truly like those 1 cup teeny
bottles you can get.

I am going out for dinner to friends on saturday. As a hostess gift I
bought some Ice Wine. I believe it is similar to the last time I bought
Ice Wine over as it has the same maker and price range...but this is to
settle a bet...she believes it was from another maker...We shall see how
wrong the man is...survey time...Will I be forgiven (even though I
believe I'm not wrong)?

There is nothing ridding on this except me being yelled at and being
called a stupid fool. Which I'll admit to being on anyday of the week.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

A man in line at the bank kept falling over...when he got to a teller he
asked for his balance.

hahabogus wrote:

> I'm not a wine drinker as per say...so I truly like those 1 cup teeny
> bottles you can get.

I too don't care to drink wine, but I like it for cooking. I also use
the four-packs of small bottles for that purpose.




Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

Default wrote on 21 Mar 2008 19:28:50 GMT:

??>> I'm not a wine drinker as per say...so I truly like those
??>> 1 cup teeny bottles you can get.

DU> I too don't care to drink wine, but I like it for cooking.
DU> I also use the four-packs of small bottles for that
DU> purpose.

The main appeal of those little bottles is probably to those
who don't really like wine. The contents are usually, at best,
mediocre. I have seen champagnes with decent names in very small
bottles so there may be exceptions.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

"James Silverton" > wrote in news:tmVEj.37
$Oj5.21@trnddc06:

> Default wrote on 21 Mar 2008 19:28:50 GMT:
>
> ??>> I'm not a wine drinker as per say...so I truly like those
> ??>> 1 cup teeny bottles you can get.
>
> DU> I too don't care to drink wine, but I like it for cooking.
> DU> I also use the four-packs of small bottles for that
> DU> purpose.
>
> The main appeal of those little bottles is probably to those
> who don't really like wine. The contents are usually, at best,
> mediocre. I have seen champagnes with decent names in very small
> bottles so there may be exceptions.
>
> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland
>
> E-mail, with obvious alterations:
> not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
>
>

The main appeal to me is I'm a cheap ******* and I really dislike buying
a whole bottle of wine when I need about a cup or so. Wine good or bad
red or white when drunk outa a glass and not used for cooking rises all
the hair on my arms. So if not used for cooking and opened it will go bad
at my house.

I drank maybe a gallon and a half of it one night as a teen on top of 26
oz of rye whiskey. And since then even the smell of wine is distasteful,
except in moderation cooked in food. So whole bottles of wine and I just
don't work and why spend serious money on stuff you can't drink. At least
once a year I have to sip from a glass of wine while some unbeliever
watches the hair on my arm.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

A man in line at the bank kept falling over...when he got to a teller he
asked for his balance.

James Silverton wrote:

> Default wrote on 21 Mar 2008 19:28:50 GMT:
>
> ??>> I'm not a wine drinker as per say...so I truly like those
> ??>> 1 cup teeny bottles you can get.
>
> DU> I too don't care to drink wine, but I like it for cooking.
> DU> I also use the four-packs of small bottles for that
> DU> purpose.
>
> The main appeal of those little bottles is probably to those who
> don't really like wine.

Kind of like me.

> The contents are usually, at best, mediocre.

Work perfectly fine for cooking.



Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

hahabogus wrote on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:45:08 GMT:

??>> Default wrote on 21 Mar 2008 19:28:50 GMT:
??>>
??>>>> I'm not a wine drinker as per say...so I truly like
??>>>> those 1 cup teeny bottles you can get.
??>>
DU>>> I too don't care to drink wine, but I like it for
DU>>> cooking. I also use the four-packs of small bottles for
DU>>> that purpose.
??>>
??>> The main appeal of those little bottles is probably to
??>> those who don't really like wine. The contents are
??>> usually, at best, mediocre. I have seen champagnes with
??>> decent names in very small bottles so there may be
??>> exceptions.
??>>
??>> James Silverton
??>> Potomac, Maryland
??>>
??>> E-mail, with obvious alterations:
??>> not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
??>>
h> The main appeal to me is I'm a cheap ******* and I really
h> dislike buying a whole bottle of wine when I need about a

I appreciate your thoughts! There have been a number of threads
on alt.food.wine concerning preserving opened bottles but I
don't think any methods are good for more than a few days.

Down the hatch!


James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

James Silverton wrote:
> Default wrote on 21 Mar 2008 19:28:50 GMT:
>
> ??>> I'm not a wine drinker as per say...so I truly like those
> ??>> 1 cup teeny bottles you can get.
>
> DU> I too don't care to drink wine, but I like it for cooking.
> DU> I also use the four-packs of small bottles for that
> DU> purpose.
>
> The main appeal of those little bottles is probably to those who don't
> really like wine. The contents are usually, at best, mediocre. I have
> seen champagnes with decent names in very small bottles so there may be
> exceptions.

Well you're not going to get a really decent wine but I'm with hahabogus
in that they can be very handy for cooking if one does not want to open
a bottle of wine. It probably depends on where you are. We have a
couple in the LCBO that are not all that bad.

--
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

In article >,
says...
> hahabogus wrote:
>
> > I'm not a wine drinker as per say...so I truly like those 1 cup teeny
> > bottles you can get.
>
> I too don't care to drink wine, but I like it for cooking. I also use
> the four-packs of small bottles for that purpose.
>
>
>
>
> Brian
>
>

Oh in my case I like wine, some more than others. But I've always got
some red or white wine in the house and use it in various recipes.

hahabogus wrote:
> Well I cut up my sirlion roast, onion and mushrooms added my grape
> tomatoes whole and 2 cloves of garlic sliced, seasoned with chevril,
> fresh ground pepper, and salt. Added 1 cup merlot,

You liked cooking beef in the merlot? i have tried it a couple of times
and gave up on merlot as a cooking wine.
I would prefer a good burgundy for a ragout de boeuf.
--
JL
about 1/4 cup sherry
> and enough beef stock to come about 1/3 to 1/2 way up the pan, put on the
> lid and into the oven it went @ 300F I figure to stir and check in on it
> in say 2 hours.
>
> The pork butt was great...I gave the cook a kudos in the way of a second
> helping.
>
> I'm not a wine drinker as per say...so I truly like those 1 cup teeny
> bottles you can get.
>
> I am going out for dinner to friends on saturday. As a hostess gift I
> bought some Ice Wine. I believe it is similar to the last time I bought
> Ice Wine over as it has the same maker and price range...but this is to
> settle a bet...she believes it was from another maker...We shall see how
> wrong the man is...survey time...Will I be forgiven (even though I
> believe I'm not wrong)?
>
> There is nothing ridding on this except me being yelled at and being
> called a stupid fool. Which I'll admit to being on anyday of the week.
>

hahabogus > wrote:

> The main appeal to me is I'm a cheap ******* and I really dislike buying
> a whole bottle of wine when I need about a cup or so.

A cup or so, yes. But if a bit more than a cup is needed, a whole
bottle of very drinkable plonk (actually of a better quality than many a
small bottle) very often costs less, at least here in Germany.

Victor

(Victor Sack) wrote in news:1ie706d.wh2xsg4y527yN%
:

> hahabogus > wrote:
>
>> The main appeal to me is I'm a cheap ******* and I really dislike
buying
>> a whole bottle of wine when I need about a cup or so.
>
> A cup or so, yes. But if a bit more than a cup is needed, a whole
> bottle of very drinkable plonk (actually of a better quality than many
a
> small bottle) very often costs less, at least here in Germany.
>
> Victor
>

Probably...but I really can not drink wine and I'm quite famillar with
the teeny bottles these days. I go with what I know...Like I said I can
not drink wine and I'm cheap. So the small bottles work for me. It isn't
just a dis-like of wine... more like a hair of the alcolhol poisioning
from my under age drinking days, that bit me. If a 3 or 4 dollar teeny
bottle turns out to be crap it doesn't concern me that 1 particular brand
or type isn't good. But if a 5 thru 8 dollar regular bottle of plonk
is... would. Plus now I have maybe 5 days to use up the rest of the
bottle and that would put undo stress on me...waste not want not. I use
sherry in soups but sherry stays good for years. I use little wine due to
my wine ignorance, due to experiences beyond my control plus no true
desire to improve my education of something I rarely use. Now if I could
drink the stuff I'd be more educated but I can't so I don't bother.

I haven't even determined if it is a mental thing or a true learned body
reaction to my misspent youthful drinking spurge. It just doesn't concern
me that much. I like the few recipes involving wine I make and I am quite
happy with my wine ignorance. Plus you can't make me like wine...neener
neener.

If I want a drink I drink Ceasars , beer, scotch, gin lime rickies but
never wine as the smell of wine alone causes my body hair to stand on
end. And uncooked wine sipped from a glass causes me to gag. I try it
about every year and theres been no apparent change in my reaction in
over 35 years. The truly sad part is that what poisoned me was buck a
gallon wine the nastiest wine around, it should have been at least
something memmorable.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

A man in line at the bank kept falling over...when he got to a teller he
asked for his balance.