Probably the best chicken white wine sauce, ever.........
One of my friends is a high up something or other in a packaging firm (huge international contracts). On a visit to New Zealand he was given a rather good bottle of Cloudy Bay. He brought it home and put it away, saving it for Christmas Day to impress the guests.

At this point his good lady joins the fray. She is a lovely woman and a really good cook. Unfortunately she is teetotal and as such has no interest in wine. "Why learn about something you can't enjoy?" is her rationalisation.This led to her using the said bottle of Cloudy Bay to make the sauce. My mate swears he ate the meal through a veil of tears and mopped up every drop of sauce.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 22 Sep 2008, 16:38, 7 replies)

She doesnt drink it but she eats it?
Thats a bit of a cop out I rekon. If I was him Id have fought my corner and he should have spiked her drink as revenge
(i should have joined myspace, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 16:50, closed)

how's that a cop out?
the alcohol burns off when you cook it.
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 17:23, closed)

Heh.
I hope it doesn't burn off!


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Boil maybe...
( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 18:05, closed)

It
doesn't boil off completely - a quite significant proportion will remain.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 19:06, closed)

um
alcohol boils at 86 degrees, water at 100, so if you allow your food to boil (which leads to it actually cooking) you really do boil off all the alcohol.

This is a good thing, this allows me to drive after eating.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 6:17, closed)

I assume Cloudy Bay is an expensive and valuable wine.

Never heard of it.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 21:28, closed)

cloudy bay
you can pick it up easily pretty much anywhere here and its reasonbly priced . quite a nice drop . Im surprised that its unavalibe in the uk
(welgar, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 7:28, closed)