Saturday, November 30, 2013

Month 10 day 20: Coq au Vin

Today I made:
Easy Coq au Vin, Cooking Light November 2010
Served with a mix of jasmine and wild rice

This recipe took a whole bottle of wine! It is too bad because there was leftover red wine from a department event that no one wanted, but I forgot that this recipe was coming up, so I didn't take it either. We used cooking red wine, so I was worried that it might end up too salty, but it was fine. To my (happy) surprise, it didn't really end up tasting like wine, somehow. It just tasted really moist and tender.
This is pretty easy I guess, although it still took a long time (about 1.5 hours). We wanted to know what "hard" coq au vin is like, but the recipe in one of my other cookbooks seemed pretty similar. Julia Child might beg to differ. I'd never eaten this dish before, and G tasted some of his brother's when he was in Paris recently but couldn't recall what it was supposed to taste like. So, who knows! Naively though, it was good. I wondered though why the mushrooms and onions had to be sautéed separately though, if they're going to be added in later. And, why does the wine have to get reduced by half on two separate occasions? There were many mysteries with this recipe.
I forgot to make the squash along side, so that will have to be made tomorrow even though this is the LAST DAY IN NOVEMBER! Crazy! Without further ado, here are this month's top recipes:
My pick: Almost-Famous Cinnabuns
G's pick: Coq Au Vin

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