I normally buy a cheap red wine for roast or stew...I don't even know what the actual name is. I think the one I usually get is a locally made red wine? It's only about $7. I use rum to make a pineapple-rum syrup for ice cream. Jeff uses Jack Daniels and bourbon in barbecue sauce sometimes, and we make beer bread.
I don't avoid the cooking wine for health reasons--just for taste. I don't want to start out with the food salted from the wine. Let the sauce cook down and then season to taste.
As for alcohol content, you're pretty safe with something that's cooked for awhile (like stew, roast, soups, or spaghetti sauce). Most of the alcohol really will evaporate out over time. It's those desserts or quick-cooking meals you have to look out for.
Thanks MissB! ... I've always simmered my sauces awhile, and of course I use only cooking wine anyway, so there is not much alcohol going on in my cooking, lol!
Now, beer bread? I've had it at different restaurants as a free appetizer, but have never made it myself. Care to share your recipe?
Well, Paul said "bodily exercise profiteth little" and the Pentecostals have taken that scripture literally too....
Seriously though, we have visited other denomination and churches since we left the UPC. People like to eat wherever you go. I mean, everyone is just waiting on the preacher to wind up his message on Sunday morning so they can all sprint to their favorite restaurant, and we witnessed this in many different denominations.... I think going to church and fellowshipping/eating with other believers seems to fit like a hand in a glove. It is not limited to the Pentecostals, not at all.
I normally buy a cheap red wine for roast or stew...I don't even know what the actual name is. I think the one I usually get is a locally made red wine? It's only about $7. I use rum to make a pineapple-rum syrup for ice cream. Jeff uses Jack Daniels and bourbon in barbecue sauce sometimes, and we make beer bread.
I don't avoid the cooking wine for health reasons--just for taste. I don't want to start out with the food salted from the wine. Let the sauce cook down and then season to taste.
As for alcohol content, you're pretty safe with something that's cooked for awhile (like stew, roast, soups, or spaghetti sauce). Most of the alcohol really will evaporate out over time. It's those desserts or quick-cooking meals you have to look out for.
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Why, I thought I'd try a new recipe tonight, Chicken Stroganoff.
It was a real hit with my family! I've shared a picture of the recipe as it appears in the cookbook, and then my version.
I switched a few things around on my version. I kind of used this recipe as a starting point, and then added a few things to taste from there.
I baked approximately 1 lb of chicken breasts in my Pampered Chef stoneware roaster for about 1.5 hours in a 350 oven. I rubbed the chicken breasts with salt, pepper, and used herbs that I had dried from my garden including parsley, rosemary, thyme, and garlic with about a cup of water to keep meat moist.
After chicken had finished cooking, I cut it up in bite size pieces, and added:
1 cup sour cream
4 pkgs Laughing Cow cheese (about 1/4 cup cream cheese could be substituted)
1 Tbsp chicken bouillon
1 Tbsp cornstarch
After stirring that all up, I covered the meat mixture with Pepperjack Cheese and put it back in 350 oven to thicken up, and for cheeses to melt, about 10 minutes.
Served with baked potatoes, and cheesy broccoli... yummy! My family was very enthusiastic about this dish, and thought the Pepperjack cheese was a good choice to spice it up a bit.
Thanks MissB! ... I've always simmered my sauces awhile, and of course I use only cooking wine anyway, so there is not much alcohol going on in my cooking, lol!
Now, beer bread? I've had it at different restaurants as a free appetizer, but have never made it myself. Care to share your recipe?
Beer bread is super easy!
3 cups of self-rising flour, sifted
1/2 c. sugar
1 can beer (12 oz)
1/4 c. melted butter
Mix dry ingredients and beer. Pour into a greased loaf pan and bake at 375 for 55 minutes. Remove from the oven and brush with the melted butter; bake for 5 more minutes.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
3 cups of self-rising flour, sifted
1/2 c. sugar
1 can beer (12 oz)
1/4 c. melted butter
Mix dry ingredients and beer. Pour into a greased loaf pan and bake at 375 for 55 minutes. Remove from the oven and brush with the melted butter; bake for 5 more minutes.
MissB... do you ever run into someone you know from church in the grocery store when you're buying beer or wine? Inquiring minds just have to know....
MissB... do you ever run into someone you know from church in the grocery store when you're buying beer or wine? Inquiring minds just have to know....
I'm gonna make this, I think. Sounds easy enough!
YES, unfortunately! The last time I bought beer for beer bread, it was nearly all I was at the grocery store to buy. I had placed it on the bottom of my cart, and somehow the carton fell over and beer bottles went rolling everywhere in the meat section. When I finally got them all picked up (or when I got another carton of beer--I can't remember which one it was)--I put them in the TOP portion of the grocery cart so there was no danger of them rolling out.
I rounded the corner into the frozen section with my carton of beer and just a few more items (and by few, I mean really--2-3 other items!), and who should I run into? Mr. Evangelist and his wife. *sigh* They were preaching a revival at a local church, but they knew me and I knew them. TO MY CREDIT, I carried on a conversation while looking them straight in the eyes. I never blinked and they didn't mention the obvious. However, I'm sure the red was flooding up from my neck to my forehead while I stood there pretending there was nothing awry in my grocery cart. There's no telling what they thought or said after they left, but hopefully it was something along the lines of, "I'll bet she's baking up some beer bread!!!"
Btw, in Oklahoma, you have to go to an actual liquor store to buy anything other than beer or wine coolers.
Moral of the story: Now JEFF goes to the store and buys whatever liquor we require. I refuse to buy it anymore. This is probably a selfish choice, I admit it.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
When I finally got them all picked up (or when I got another carton of beer--I can't remember which one it was)--I put them in the TOP portion of the grocery cart so there was no danger of them rolling out. 
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