Recipes with alcohol / wine as an ingredient ...

[Flaxbee]

A niece of mine is turning 21 next week (can't believe it) and I want to send her some recipes that include wine or alcohol as part of the cooking ingredients. She loves to cook!

Do you have any recipes you like that require wine, or sherry, or beer, bourbon, etc.?

And do you recommend any particular brands of the alcohol required for those recipes?

I'd be grateful for any suggestions you have...

[Moondog]

1. Coq au vin. Nearly any full bodied red wine will do.

Google it. Pick one.

[chknltl]

17. adding an economic version to your suggestion:

Substitute cornish game hens for chicken and also substitute May wine for any red wine. The costs are less expensive and this alternate version of coq au van is dang yummy too. I used to take things a step further by creating a game hen and giblet gravy from the reduced wine/juice that the hens cooked in. Then I would shred the meat of the hens add this to the gravy, add the cooked giblets too. This makes a great and somewhat exotic tasting S.O.S. to pour over mashed potatoes or wild rice or whatever. Personally I liked it over boiled (till they were soft) and quartered red spuds.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. you would know!

[warrior1]

2. Pork Chops with Cherry Port Sauce

This recipe is from Chef Jesse Cool's book, Your Organic Kitchen (Rodale, 2000). Jesse has been an advocate of organic foods and has used organic ingredients for 26 years in her restaurants.

Serves 4

4 Niman Ranch pork rib chops or Center Cut chops
3 whole cloves or ½ tsp ground cloves
3 whole black peppercorns
1 bay leaf
1 cinnamon stick
1½ cup dried cherries
1 cup ruby port
1 cup water
3 Tbsp brown sugar
1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
2 Tbsp butter

Place the cloves, peppercorns, bay leaf and cinnamon stick in a cheesecloth or small gauze bag. Tie with kitchen twine to seal. Place in a medium saucepan along with the cherries, port, water, brown sugar, and mustard. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 1 hour, or until the liquid is reduced by half and thickened slightly. Remove and discard the spice bag.

Melt the butter in large skillet over medium heat. Add the chops and cook for 8 minutes, turning once, or until a thermometer inserted in the center of a chop registers 150°F and the juices run clear. Serve with the sauce.

[applegrove]

3. I poached some cod in whiskey sour a while back. Butter, lemon juice, sugar & whiskey. Tasted

great.

[OriginalGeek]

4. allrecipes.com

is where I got my recipe for chicken marsala that I posted about the other day.

It must be good because even I managed to not screw it up and I didn't even have any marsala wine. But I'll use marsala next time - i just didn't have any when I decided I wanted to try it last weekend.

There are several recipes there but the one I used was the one with like 2500 ratings...the rest were much lower...

[Major Nikon]

5. Lots of suggestions

Cherries and strawberries are great macerated in red wine. Lots of other fruits are great macerated with bourbon.

I will often pan fry steaks (especially filet mignon) then deglaze the pan with a bit of bourbon or cognac. You can stir in either pads of butter or heavy cream to make a pan sauce, add salt/pepper, then slice up the steak and drizzle the pan sauce over, or in the case of filet mignon you just make a little pool of pan sauce on the plate, and place the steak on top, with a bit more drizzled over the top.

Coq au vin is quite nice. You can't get stewing hens anymore, so just use chicken thighs for best results.

Beef Burgundy is one of my family's favorites.

White wine is great in clam sauce. Vodka is great in red sauce.

[IcyPeas]

6. just savory things or sweet?

I once had kahlua pie. I've never made it though.

[Throd]

7. Tequila shots!

[Flaxbee]

8. thanks! keep 'em coming!

Sweet or savory, either are appreciated.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

9. I use wine to sautee mushrooms with spices, then add butter to brown after its boiled off . n/t

[Chan790]

10. The secret ingredient in the kitchens of most French restaurants is Grand Marnier.

I swear when I used to watch the chef in the restaurant I used to work in, everything had a splash of GM in it. Well, anything that needed a floral citrusy note. The desserts, sure. The pork loin? That was surprising. A common use is as the base of a glaze for duck-breast. Most often, it's used to bake with. You can add a tsp to almost any brownie recipe to fancy it up, for example.

Grand Marnier even has a pamphlet-cookbook they put out from time to time on their website. Not currently though. Other common cooking-with liquors are Chambord and most anisette (Pernod, for one.)

[Xipe Totec]

12. Here is an awesome combination

Mango kulfee (frozen mango yogurt) with crushed pistachios, drizzled with Grand Marnier.

Still my favorite dessert of all time.

[Xipe Totec]

11. Oysters in white wine with tarragon

It helps if you can drive to Wellfleet MA, and buy them freshly harvested from the oystermen...

http://southernfood.about.com/cs/oysters/a/bl30102q.htm

[kentauros]

13. Alcohol Balls!

Just the recipe for The Lounge!

Very simple and easy recipe
I use my Cuisinart to blend everything, but you can do it any other way, including by hand.

Alcohol Balls
(Bourbon or Rum)

3 1/2 Cups vanilla wafer crumbs (crushed) (about one 12oz box)
1 1/2 Cups confectioner's sugar (reserve 1/2 C for rolling on balls)
1 Cups chopped pecans
1/4 Cups unsweetened cocoa
1/3 Cups rum or bourbon
1/3 Cups light Kayo syrup

Mix crumbs, sugar and cocoa.
Add nuts and mix.
Mix in alcohol and syrup.
Form into one-inch (1&quot balls.
Roll in reserved confectioner's sugar.

Often it's best to make these a day or more ahead of time so the rum/bourbon has more time to infuse the cookie crumbs

[deucemagnet]

14. Risotto!

If your niece learns the technique for a basic risotto, she's only limited by available ingredients and her own creativity!

I like Alton Brown's method because it saves 10 minutes of standing over the stove stirring.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/wild-mushroom-and-asparagus-risotto-recipe/index.html

[Justice wanted]

15. My friend has a Great Tequila Rose Milkshake

I think I have it right:


1 1/2 OZ Tequila Rose

1/2 oz Godiva choc Liquid

1/2 cup of vanilla ice cream

1 cup crush ice.

blend it all together.


sometimes she'll place more ice cream in and sometimes she'll add some milk depends on how think or water like mixture is

[LynneSin]

16. Here's my favorite recipe with tequila!

Buy a bottle of good tequila. Herradura Anejo if available but Don Patron is good too.

Get yourself a nice 4oz rocks glass.

Open bottle of tequila

Pour in glass

Put cap back on bottle of tequila.

Enjoy drinking it!

YUMMMY!!!

[jakeXT]

18. Wine cooler

2 mangos
1 pineapple
4 kiwi
3 ripe peaches
7 oz sugar
1 cup of Malibu rum http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malibu_Rum&useformat=desktop

1 bottle dry white wine
1 bottle of dry Sparkling wine
fresh mint for decoration



Peel the mangos, pineapple and kiwis and cut them together with the peaches into cubes.

Mix the fruits with sugar and Malibu, put it covered for 2h into a fridge.

Take it out, mix again put it into bowls and fill it with wine and sparkling wine.

I usually take one big bowl and fill everything into it.

Throw in some mint leaves and serve it.