A Modified Recipe

Dinner was good tonight, but I had to modify the recipe because it called for white wine and I couldn't open the wine bottle. It was a bottle of wine which I happened to win at a retiree luncheon. I got the cork screw into the cork, but the cork wouldn't rise out of the neck of the bottle. The cork screw came out of the cork as if it had never even gone inside the cork at all. After about 4 attempts to open the bottle I decided that we'd have to do without the flavor of a dry white wine. So, our spinach fettucine with shrimp, small white beans and a number of spices was just cooked with chicken broth. Actually, the dish had a good flavor, but I guess it could have been better with the white wine. Another disappointment for the cook in the kitchen.