I saw Curtis on Take Home Chef make an interesting sounding steak marinated in red wine and crushed Juniper berries which sounded quite interesting. Cooking with wine sounded pretty good so I decided to give it a try even though I am not a wine drinker.
I had to hit three markets before I found Juniper berries (in the spice section) and I stopped at the liquor store for a bottle of cheap wine on my way home (in New York you can only purchase wine in liquor stores). Experienced cooks reading this are probably laughing by now, but I didn’t know any better at the time.
So I smashed some Juniper berries with a pot, poured some wine into a bowl with the berries, and poured it to cover some nicely marbled steaks to marinate. The balance was used to make a sauce by reducing in a heated pan. After covering and refrigerating for about 20 hours I slapped those steaks on the grill and proceeded to cook the most vile tasting steak I have ever tried to eat.
I learned a valuable lesson - don’t cook with wine that you would not want to drink! Cooking will actually concentrate the flavor of the wine. That’s a good thing if using a good tasting wine, but if using a bad tasting wine it concentrates the bad flavor.
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