I talked to one of the cooks at work about cooking with wine. He said to talk to the other cook, the scary one who yells at everyone. So I did and he yelled at me for being a stupid girl who wants to be a cook when she's just a pretty face. At least I think that's what he said - sometimes Spanglish is hard to follow.
Who needs that shit? I told him never mind and left the kitchen. Then it got busy and I forgot about the whole thing. Then there was a shift change and I kept working. Half hour later the mean cook is sitting at the counter furiously writing. I keep seating people and working the register and refilling coffees.
The mean cook is leaving - I see him while I'm holding a full pot of decaf and trying not to spill as I pour. When I go back to the register later there's a brown paper bag next to my backpack. With two bottles of wine and a recipe for making chicken simmered in wine. Across the top of the recipe he wrote to never buy cooking wine. "Es bull-sheet."
I will tell Danielle it's cooking wine and that it tastes as bad as baking chocolate so she won't drink it while I'm out. She had a very unfortunate experience with baking chocolate once.
3 comments:
That was pretty damn cool of him.
My favorite is to poach chicken breasts in white wine, simmer til almost done, add some tarragon and heavy cream and serve over mashed potatoes. Simple, but heavenly.
Cooking wine DOES suck ass. I have also had the chocolate incident. Heh.
never buy cooking wine
Well that's true. If you wouldn't drink it, you don't cook with it. So you don't want wine that is not suitable for drinking, and that's really what "cooking wine" is.
How very nice of the cook.
What a great story. It's cool he gave you the wine with the recipe. Was it good?
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