Stop Wasting That Wine
I had a reader/friend ask me what she should do with leftover white wine: something she used for cooking (that previously-mentioned divine wine cake) and wouldn’t normally drink.
My first thought was that she has a brief window to continue cooking with it. Perhaps with butter and shallots to make a sauce for seafood, such as scallops or mussels. Or any one of these recipes, though I think I’d personally try the Southwestern Chicken Chardonnay.
You can also make vinegar from wine remnants, for which I’ll go into more details in my next post.
However, I did a little searching and found this Uncorked gem. Teri Hatcher makes use of leftover wine to bathe in, claiming it softens her skin. Heck, we put salt in our bath and herbs and milk. So why not a little vino?
I’ll try it out and let you know.
leftover wine, bathing in wine
March 29th, 2007 at 9:50 am
A wine bath, that sounds like way less work than cooking tonight. I had my heart set on a Greek burrito anyway. But I’ll try one of those recipes in the future, a girl can never make enough wine cake - thanks!
March 29th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
That just brings back all those memories of telling the kids (when they were little) NOT to drink the bathwater…
March 29th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Can’t wait to try it!! Now all we need is to find a way to pump sparkling wine into the tub to make it a champagne bubble bath!
March 29th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
mmmmm, bubbles… but wait - I’m confused. I’ve had my hands in wine quite a bit and it never, ever, softens my skin. Does she just put a splash of it? Does she only use white wine?
March 30th, 2007 at 9:12 am
next weeks action shots of the wine bath should get your blog hit numbers way up!
haha!
April 1st, 2007 at 3:43 pm
MMMMMMM Teri Hatcher… god I used to have the biggest crush on her during the days of Lois and Clark.
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“next weeks action shots of the wine bath should get your blog hit numbers way up!” Yeah, it might go over better than my “Toy Collecting In the Nude” series.