For this month's Five Star Makeover challenge - hosted as ever by the lovely and talented
Natasha of 5 Star Foodie and
Lazaro of Lazaro Cooks! - we were tasked with creating a gourmet dish incorporating wine. I don't know about you, but wine is an essential component of
all of my cooking ... if you catch my drift. But the difference here is that the vino had to actually go
into the dish, and not just down the hatch.
My initial stumbling block was this: Dishes and recipes that have wine as an ingredient tend to already be on the fancy side, so how was I to do a gourmet makeover on something that's already gourmet? But then, as Poppa Trix and I were tucking into a humble dinner of roast beef and discussing my dilemma, I (or rather we) had the "a ha!" moment.
