When all else fails.....Get a little rednecked!

I bought a bottle of white wine for a recipe. I imagine, if you know me at all, you can guess where the recipe came from! (I'll give you a hint: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/06/chicken-with-olives/ She had me at "olives"!!!) So anyways, i've never actually bought wine to cook with before, i always substituted with broth. Heck, i've never bought wine PERIOD! But i discovered three things:

1. Wine ain't all that bad....and i'm definitely a lightweight now-a-days,

2. I love love love the result of cooking with wine and i plan on doing it more often,

and 3. If you're going to buy wine...keep in mind you've got to get that bottle open somehow.







Preferably with a corkscrew.







I dont own one of those.




I've learned it's against the law, so i will remedy that as soon as possible.


This is where that fine line i have between city chick/country girl comes in to play here. I have a bottle of wine, but no civilized tool to get it open. So i let a little redneck out!

A drill, a screw.......



And a pair of pliers! Who needs a corkscrew?

This is what it went into

My friends, if you like wine and you like green olives, it is absolutely necessary that you try this recipe!

I'll give ya the link to P Dubs site, just in case you missed it before. It is that important.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/06/chicken-with-olives/