Cooking With Wine

Most cook books tip that herbs and wine
Will enhance cooking all the time,
MY best tip's not in a book,
'The wine must first be in the cook,'
And so wine's cheery, rosy glint
Stands handy near our kitchen sink
With a wine glass on the shelf
(To measure with of course), what else!

Now as I peel and scrape and chop
I sample well the red grape crop,
For naturally, one must be sure
'Tis suited for an epicure.
Then as I totter to and fro
I curse my age that makes it so,
For I could not have you think
My tottering is due to drink.

By the way, this typsy bard
Always finds it vexing hard,
To cook a sausage on a grill,
Because the top side always will,
Curl (as I would), when it's browned
And thus the thing won't roll around,
And this old fellow, cupped or sober,
Likes his sausage browned all over.

To hold it straight with thumb and finger
Does not encourage one to linger,
Beneath a top grills searing heat
That turns his fingers into meat,
And fingers grilled to medium rare
Might not make appetising fare,
And I feel sure that no one would
Define them 'finger-licking good.

So dear friends, successful cooking
And failing that, then happy supping.