When we had friends over the other night, I brought out a bottle of a wine I’d enjoyed at someone else’s house and I bought a bottle of my own for that evening.
We
opened it up, poured a small taste, and then collectively reeled back.
It was awful. It smelled ghastly
and our one brave taste confirmed it. Something had gone horribly wrong with
it. So, I poured it out and put the bottle in the recycling.
We were having beef stew last night and I wanted to have
something more than just a bowl plonked down on the table. Not in the mood for
another salad (yes, I know, a healthier choice) and needing to use up the
flour, I made baking powder biscuits.
Kind of.
No shortening. Since anyone knows that
butter makes everything better, I substituted that. Like so many times before,
I mixed the dry ingredients, cut in the butter, and added the milk. Next step,
a quick knead and then roll it out.
No rolling pin. When outfitting your
place in the land of sun and fun, a rolling pin is rarely top of anyone’s list.
But wait.
A quick rifling through the seltzer
cans, tonic bottles, and wine discards and eureka! There it was, only needing a
good washing.
The bottler may have screwed up the
contents somehow but they designed a perfectly
shaped container.
Lol. Just from the shape and label of the bottle, I would have expected shampoo, not wine.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness for straight sided bottles.
ReplyDeleteWell done. And yes, I have used bottles (occasionally full ones) for just that purpose.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a young wife, I used bottles for rolling pins all the time. It's been awhile, though. Sorry about that wine being bed.
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