To give DS (11 months) beef stifado made with wine

[QueenNefertitty]

Possibly the most outrageously "overheard in Waitrose" style dilemma ever. I expect a flaming.

But I've just made beef stifado for a family dinner with red wine (obviously). DS is doing well with BLW, and at almost a year old is fine to eat almost anything... but I'm a bit about the wine... it's slow cooked for HOURS, rapid bubble to reduce at the end... all the booze is burnt off... right??

I'm short- AIBU to give my baby a "boozy" dinner!?!?

if he doesn't want it I'll have it, I bloody love stifado

can you post the recipe?

Help greatly appreciated as well-meaning (slightly bonkers) DM bound to have something to say about it....

We dont use red wine in stifado.

We use red wine vinegar.

But i think if you cook wine, you cook the alcohol off.

he'll be fine and sleep like a log

@gorgosparta

There is red wine vinegar- also small glass of red wine- is this not traditional?! Now I'm REALLY overheard in Waitrose.... cultural appropriation .... wrongly undertaken!

Wasted on a baby I should think. ;)

@ssd

• will post (inauthentic) recipe for you.

Bound to be leftovers. fussy bastard family

All fine - assuming you didn't add any salt.

It's totally fine. Mine have had plenty of boozy dinners and puddings, and seem to be fine. Well, 15 month old DS is going through a rather vicious stage, but I'm sure it's not down to Jamie's Simple Baked Lasagna or the tipsy tiramisu we all seem to like

Totally fine. Sounds yum. What time are you dishing up?

@soggy I assure you, DS mostly lives on de-crumbed fish fingers, organic biscuits, bananas broccoli and pasta with cream cheese. Sometimes all in one dish

@lozenge - ha! DS going through phase of not sleeping. May spike his dinner now I come to think of it...

@used - no salt. He's allowed a crumb of feta.

It's fine. I did it loads of times! Only possibility is that it might be rich for his stomach, I wouldn't give him loads think of the nappies

Tomorrows nappy will be a joy 😀.
It won't kill him and no doubt thousands of Greek babies have enjoyed stifado at some point.

Oh no! I'd forgotten what goes in, must come out!

Where are those bloody fishfingers....

You can put what you want in. Doesnt matter really. I was just saying that we dont.

Dh is Cypriot, doesnt mean everything has to be how we do it.

His mum probably would disgree with my opinion on that

tipsy tiramisu you can't give that to a baby, surely!

I make lasagne with red wine and none of my DCs ever seemed to be affected by it .

No, i wouldnt give a baby something with uncooked alchol in though.

@gorgosparta
Sorry I wasn't being narky - your MIL would be appalled at me... I use jarred grilled aubergines to make moussaka

No, i wouldnt give a baby something with uncooked alchol in though.

I think it would be a criminal offence

I've seen a chart before about how much alcohol is really boiled away - you need to cook something uncovered for a few hours to burn most off.

Anything cooked for less than an hour or covered keeps most of the booze, so you just have to make a judgement about how much alcohol would actually be present in a baby/child sized portion.

What the fuck is a de-crumbed fish finger by the way?

Woah, hold off calling the Social Services - mine only have a little bit of cream from the top.
Then again, perhaps this is why he's so vicious, an angry drunk perhaps?