I can't possibly be related to these people.

[progmom]

They have no red wine in their house.

How am I supposed to make spaghetti sauce with no wine?? :shrug:

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. That's wrong

And sad. :(

[progmom]

2. thank you for understanding

:hug:

[sundog]

3. oh. my. god.

run. just run.

:P

[progmom]

5. will you rescue me??

pleeeeeeease?

[sundog]

8. yes

:) you know what i'll be driving

a friend just gave me a wonderful bottle of 2002 trinchero cab from santa barbara... i'm aching to drink it :7

[Taverner]

4. But Alkihawl is work of the debil :)

I have no idea honestly

My dad used to make spaghetti without onions or garlic, but he's from Iowa - sooooooooo.....

[Harley Quinn]

9. never ask a midwesterner

our idea of cuisine is whatever we can club and put in a cassarole...

HQ-has been weaned off prego for sometime now

[lukasahero]

Well, that's better than when we visited my brother and SIL

and when we asked for a bottle of red, they gave us a '95 bottle of Beaujolais Noveau. (It was 2002. :-()

[Xithras]

10. It could have been FAR worse.

We did Christmas at my cousins last year, and while I was cooking I asked for a white wine. He handed me a bottle of 2001 Charles Shaw...two buck chuck :puke: It turned out that he had CASES of the stuff in his basement, and he SWORE that it was one of the best wines he'd ever had.

IMO, Trader Joes should be forced out of business for that atrocity.

[tjwmason]

15. Yikes

Beaujolais Nouveau tastes bad enough in the year of production :scared:

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Prego=bad?

:shrug: You'd die here. ;)

[jonnyblitz]

7. how elitist.

:P

[Kali]

11. sounds like its time

to run to the store for a few bottles! :beer: <<< not guiness, maybe a burgundy?

[jpgray]

12. Good gift for next time

Even if they don't care for it, people like receiving wine.

[BikeWriter]

13. You reminded me of my Beef Burgundy. Heavy on the Burgundy.

Yummy!

[MissB]

14. You need to buy a hostess gift next time.

I'd suggest starting with Two Buck Chuck.

[progmom]

17. good point

i will never arrive here empty handed again. :)

[tjwmason]

16. Allow me to soothe your troubled brow.

It really is an horrendous state of affairs, nigh on unbearable. :hug:

I had pasta this evening, and I got through a fair amount between the pan and the glass (not to make you jealous). But I also had some Italian salami (as in bought in Italy) to throw in there too (may that was).

[yellowdogintexas]

18. you just can't make a decent spaghetti sauce w/o red wine

anymore.

damn shame

[Dave Reynolds]

19. Ragu is also bad?

:hide:

[u4ic]

20. I do

:yoiks:

No garlic....now that's another story. :scared: :scared: :scared:

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. If it were my place, you'd have a good six or seven different ones

from which to choose - merlot, pinot noir, syrah, bordeaux, and I'm not sure what else, probably another merlot and pinot noir.

Not that I'm saying anything specific, I'm just, you know, sayin'.

[progmom]

25. i'm not the world's biggest merlot fan

but the rest are great.

do you have something against cabernets?

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. I'm not the biggest cabernet fan

I usually go for the merlot or the pinot noirs or Cotes du Rhones or syrahs.

Way back in the way back time, I drank mostly cabernets, until I discovered the other wines. Not that the cabernets aren't worth drinking, but I found some stuff I like, so I stuck with it.

For you, however, I will keep a case of cabernet handy. And, if you don't mind, it won't be any of that cheap shitty shit, either.

[progmom]

33. sounds good to me, rabrrrrrr

:)

[Not_Giving_Up]

22. My son will only eat Hamburger Helper spaghetti

It tastes like the box to me, but he scarfs it down.

[yvr girl]

23. I'm having sapghetti too

You are me. I am you.

[progmom]

24. this scares me

:scared:

:P

[PittPoliSci]

26. i've never had sauce made with red wine.

Then again, I'm Irish, and my family doesn't know how to cook at all.

[tigereye]

27. hey stranger!

I know how to cook. But my family doesn't. And the Italians are much better than the Irish at it. My advice, marry an Italian.

You can make a good sauce without red wine, IMO, but it is better with.

[PittPoliSci]

28. Yo!

So how was San Fran? I just got back from Dublin, Ohio's Irish Festival. Lots of weird Irish food, I don't really remember much of the food because I was double-fistin' Killian's all afternoon!

To think, a goddamned Irish Festival without Guinness! It was unheard of. Flogging Molly rocked, despite their singer having the flu. I had a great time though!

By the way, Christobel asked me to go to Kennywood with her tonight, but my car blew up. Put in a good word and an apology from me if you see her this week. :-)

[tigereye]

29. SF was wonderful

when G puts up the pix, I will send you a link. It was so beautiful, I find it hard to put it into words. Wish we could move there. Kid had fun running from plane to plane on the people mover and riding every kind of conveyance known to man.

I saw a lot of Christobel et al when we went to the sleepover Sat night. Slept in the tent with teens screaming and chasing each other all night and then Christobel and N and their friends in the pool, and then the teens in the pool til 3 am. It was fun and pretty wild. I did manage to get some sleep, somehow. B had fun too.

I like some of Flogging Molly's stuff. Were they good? Who else was there?

[PittPoliSci]

30. Bad Haggis or something...

The Prodigals...I don't remember much...

Flogging Molly put on a great show. Christobel tried to get me to come to the campout if for no other reason for the free beer. I opted out because I felt I would need a decent night's sleep before i left early the next morning for the festival. but i had really wanted to go.

Oh well, send her my apologies for that too! ;)

[tigereye]

31. damn, you will be apologizing for weeks to come!

;)

Yeah, I probably got more sleep than most people there, but that's not saying much. And I only had one Guinness.

It was pretty funny. Man, I am really out of practice with staying up late, shreiking teens all night, and B kept me playing endless rounds of Uno when he wasn't hiding in the tent. ( he hadn't slept in one before and it was quite the novelty.) Those folks are a riot, but very sweet. I met several women who live right near me!