Of Wine and Chocolate

I was making THIS dish from Carnival of the Recipes last night for dinner, it was superb, and it calls for red wine. Now I don’t drink wine, but all of my family and most of my friends do. The taste is completely lost on me… I evidently have an immature palette. Everyone tells me what a great wine something is, I have a glass and I taste bitter. However, I LOVE to cook with alcohol. I think it adds a wonderful flavor.

That said, most of my friends when cooking, whether with or without wine, will have a glass while doing so. I know my husband’s older sister has a glass every single night she cooks. For the longest time, I thought it was an Italian thing… glass of red wine while cooking, but I am realizing the more I speak to people that it is not, it is in fact very common. I personally think it is a good thing. Red wine is good for the heart and having a glass at the end of the day can really take the edge off things. It’s just unfortunate I think it tastes so God awful.

So I was thinking (I know, scary thing) and I saw that a glass of wine has about 110 calories. I think that is the equivalent of 4 or 5 Hershey’s kisses. I think that for now on, I’m going to eat a handful of Hershey’s kisses while I cook. It might take the edge off, I am hearing great things about chocolate and how it’s really not bad for you in moderation, but the key will just keeping it to 4 or 5…