Purple Meat

Before you read anymore of this, think of all the possible purple foods. There's eggplant, grapes...purple dyed eggs, and that's pretty much about it.

So I was experimenting in the kitchen again, and I was looking up possible marinades to make. I found one with red wine for meat and such, so I took a steak and marinated it in the wine, olive oil, crushed garlic cloves, and thyme. I checked up on it an hour later or so, and the meat turned purple. It looked really weird, like this.

That's not my picture, but it looked exactly like that. Minus all the carrots, onions and green thing. Man, that just looks bizarre.

Looking back, I'm not sure why I chose to follow this marinade because I don't even like wine, much less red wine. I figure that the specific recipe I chose was probably for wine connoisseurs and those that actually appreciate and like wine. But when I took the meat out of the marinade, it was purple and reeked of wine. I probably should've read the instructions on how to cook the meat specifically, because I just pan fried it figuring that it was the easiest way to do it.

What a mistake. Turns out pan frying keeps all the juices and stuff inside the meat, so what I ate was literally wine and steak. It was really gross, it was super bitter and it made me really sad that I made so much of it in the first place. I read the instructions after I ate my terrible dinner, and turns out I was supposed to grill it in order to release all the alcohol. Good thing it wasn't vodka or something that the meat was marinated in, would've been drunk at 7PM.

Moral of the story? Read directions, or end up drinking unnecessary wine.



-Wilson