With these current economic times, and since I am still living on my unemployment check, I have started trekking from the Upper East Side down to Trader Joes for my bi-weekly grocery shopping. So I set off this week with my reusable grocery bag on a mission to buy some goods. It had been a while, but I decided to enter their wine shop to replenish my stash. I spent $15.50 on 2 bottles of wine -- oh how I love Jose! Well, the white I selected I didn't particularly enjoy. I'll normally go for a Sauvignon Blanc or Chenin Blanc, and this time I tried a French table white. Not good, and I'm forgetting the name of it. All I know is I'll never buy the white wine with the goat label again.
However, I did get a decent bottle of red wine: Excelsior Cabernet Sauvignon (2006), which cost about $9. Since being unemployed, I almost always drink a glass of wine with my lunch. It makes me feel all warm and happy inside, and probably helps me unwind from my gym workout. I should probably be drinking more water post workout, but that's not as appetizing as pouring a glass of red. This full bodied wine has blackcurrant aromas. It also has hints of dark chocolate and smoke. It's not too overpowering and it goes down quite smoothly. Great compliment to a satisfying lunch. I worked with what was left in my fridge from my Trader Joes purchase and concocted a warm chicken salad, consisting of rocket arugula, mozzarella cheese topped with red wine vinegar and olive oil. The chicken I marinated with adobo (very Hispanic of me), ground cumin, smoked paprika and good ole salt n' pepper, and cooked it on the stove top. I'll probably be hungry in two hours, but it was better than me grabbing a slice of pizza post workout. Ahh this wine is putting a smile on my face :)
