We're eating more beets!

[kiya]

I've had that damn Doonesbury line stuck in my head for a couple of weeks.

keshwyn, I have your turnip.

teinedreugan and I went to the grocery to get supplies for making dinner this weekend, 'cause I need to start the marinating tomorrow. I wanted to get the supplies for everything, but the only beet in the grocery was a poor tiny wee thing that was hiding in the lettuce, and that's not enough for beets.

No celeriac. Though teinedreugan thinks the current assortment of vegetables may be the largest variety we've ever had in the house.

Today's irony: I'm looking for cooking wine for making a roast in cream sauce, traditionally prepared with bacon fat. (Which tradition I shall be modifying.) The only cooking wine in the store that I can find . . . is kosher.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I was going to give you some advice, but I realised as I was waiting for this to load that I have no idea whether it would apply where you are.

In Britain, if you go into a wine shop, not a grocery or a liquor store but somewhere that sells wine, a wine merchant, and ask for cooking wine, they will sell you bin-ends, odd extra bottles they had shipped so they could sell wine in units of 12 even if they lost the odd one, and then didn't need.

Usually these are cheaper than buying something marked "cooking wine". They don't have labels, generally, or the labels are scuffed.

I used to do this, and then be annoyed with carandol for drinking the rest of it, as it'll keep as wine vinegar.

Once, I got a red wine and used an ounce of it for my mushroom hazelnut and red wine pate, and then he drank a glass and insisted I try it. It was so spectacularly good that it probably cost twenty pounds, a complex unfolding red wine, like a very very good claret. We sat down in the middle of the afternoon and finished off the bottle. The pate was pretty good as well.

[leanne-opaskar.livejournal.com]

Just use red or white wine, whatever the recipe calls for (presumably red, given that it's a roast). You don't need to use cooking wine specifically. You can use something inexpensive if you don't have a bottle already lying around your house. (: