I discovered the taste of wine in cooking!

ok ok, stop asking me....
I am explaining the idea of my blog background!!

First, I should tell you I lack an oven. I have a microwave, but not a real oven for backing stuff!!
Then I have to add that lately I have been doing masterpieces, given the fact that I use only the small grill I have! I am not saying it to shop for compliments, in any way!! I don't like cooking as a whole!! I consider it as a waste of time, time that can be spent with friends, reading good stuff or just napping, or anything else rather than stirring eggs, peeling potatoes or crying over onion! I just believe there is a better way to spend a day! But this skill comes to me somehow hereditary - my grandmother and my mother are GREAT cooks! It is not only me who says that, believe me! So I have never tried to pay attention to my mom cooking and do not know how things are made, but now when I try to prepare something for myself it turns out to be delicious without much effort! Maybe part because I am the one to try it, part because I bring this skill! who knows.... but one thing is true - I want my husband either to be a good cook, or to be rich enough to bring me to restaurants! Actually, both of these is the best....

Last night, however, at around 10 p.m it struck me to start my adventure! A day ago I had prepared rice with sour (pickled) cabbage (hm I doubt this could be found in the US) and meat, so I was not running out of food. The more interesting part was that I did it on the grill - just putting the baking tin over the grid of heating elements to let it boil for around 40 min and then when meal is almost ready I put it under this grid for several more minutes. Things happen to be delicious!! I had done like that some potatoes with kashkaval (yellow cheese) and another dish of broccoli.

So last night, I cooked the livers I had bought. The livers were unfrozen in my so called fridge, and they would have gone right into the bin in case I had not cooked them. Here, I should say I do not have a real fridge, but rather a cooler that can not freeze anything in and moreover, things could easily go wrong, if left for several days (but this is another story!).
So I sliced 5 medium-sized onions and slightly fried them, then added the half a kilo liver (in my case chicken liver, but as a kid I remember me eating only out of pork), already got into pieces and fried them together for 7 - 10 more min. After that added 2 smashed pickled tomatoes and around two mugs of water. Then I left it to boil on the grid of heating elements, rather than on the hot-plate where I prepared the fried onions, for a couple of more minutes to have the water evaporate and added half a mug of red wine and left it for some more minutes. Having poured alcohol in my baking tin, I presumed it required more time to make meat crispy and juicy, so, bearing this in mind, I used the grill in this case. It is not as powerful as the hot-plate and things can get gradually there. Adding wine to meat makes it really tasty. At the end, I poured a homogeneous mixture of 1/3 of the cup oil and 2 spoons of butter to make the whole thing more saucy!

Do not get me wrong - this is not a food blog! I just wanted to give a try to this alcohol trick and now knows that I am going to use this hint every time I cook any kind of meal!