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[Osmosis Jones]

They don't, but they also have to put pretty clear disclaimers on the packaging. If you want to rage, rage about homeopathics.

I have so much rage for that. So much. However, this is not the place for that.

Has anyone here made a sweet and sour sauce from scratch before? I have a pineapple that I need to use, and I'm kinda tempted...

[Bauglir]

Sugar and vinegar with fruit tends to work out pretty well. Not sure if I've ever made a proper sweet and sour, but that'd probably work. Probably throw in some ginger too?

[palsch]

Has anyone here made a sweet and sour sauce from scratch before? I have a pineapple that I need to use, and I'm kinda tempted...

I've done a sweet and sour soup before. I actually though it needed a stronger flavour than that particular recipe gave, so would probably increase the sugar/lime/pineapple content. For an actual sauce I've been meaning to try this version.

[penguinofhonor]

Pinot noir is the most disgusting wine I have ever tasted. Hands down. Dry as heck, bitter as heck, no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

[G-Flex]

You probably just got an awful brand... or maybe a bad bottle. It happens.

[Scelly9]

Ok, I got a weird one for you guys. The recipe is as follows:

Get 1 gallon jar of whole pickles, drain juice, slice into fourths.
Put 1/4 of the pickles into the jar at the bottom, no juice.
Add 1 cup of sugar on top of the pickles.
Add 6 cloves of garlic
Repeat four times.
Once sugar has dissolved, add one cup of hot sauce. Age two weeks.

Surprisingly, it tastes really good.

[penguinofhonor]

You probably just got an awful brand... or maybe a bad bottle. It happens.

I'm picky about my wine. And by that I mean "it needs to be really sweet and not bitter or dry at all" because I really just want alcoholic fruit juice.

The brand was Yellow Tail, though. I've got no clue how good or bad they are, I wasn't the one who bought it.

[G-Flex]

Wanting wine that tastes like alcoholic fruit juice... sounds like a problem, since it's, well, wine. It's never going to be very sweet, and it'll always have that weird astringency/dryness/whatever-you-call-it to it. Yellow Tail merlot is probably better for that than their pinot noir is.

The best alcoholic fruit juice I've had was some coconut rum in this really really good organic pineapple juice I found at the grocery store.

[penguinofhonor]

White zinfandel disagrees with you. Maybe not exactly like alcoholic fruit juice, but it's still sweet.

[Osmosis Jones]

Or maybe try a sweet cider? Some of them taste pretty much like apple juice...

[penguinofhonor]

Ciders are delicious, yeah, but I can't complain about wines if I'm drinking them.

[Osmosis Jones]

If the reason you're drinking something is to be able to complain about it, you're drinking for the wrong reason

[penguinofhonor]

Isn't that why most people drink wine, though?

[Osmosis Jones]

I drink it because nothing complements a $70 dry aged, grass fed 300 day old beef sirloin like a $65 bottle of Argentinian Malbec.


I don't drink wines often, but when I do, I make them count

(My one friend and I racked up a $270 bill at that restaurant; sooo worth it)

[abculatter_2]

I drink it because nothing complements a $70 dry aged, grass fed 300 day old beef sirloin like a $65 bottle of Argentinian Malbec.

...

(My one friend and I racked up a $270 bill at that restaurant; sooo worth it)

Jesus christ... 0.o


Also, this site is immensely fascinating, and the recipes are very useful:
http://www.wildfermentation.com/vegetable-fermentation-further-simplified-2/
http://www.wildfermentation.com/making-sauerkraut-2/
http://www.wildfermentation.com/making-sour-pickles-2/

I wish I could also advocate for the book, but I haven't been able to get it yet...

EDIT: Now this is pretty damn awesome, I gotta say...