Hi there, I cook at home most days and plenty of my recipes call for wine. No Problem. All the alcohol evaporates after just a few minutes of simmering so you won't be injesting alcohol by cooking with it. I suggest getting screw-top wine bottles and just make up your mind to put the top back on the bottle, put it in the cupboard and forget about it until the next time. Call it a test of your sobriety, for be assured that worse temptations await you on the road ahead. I now drink diet tonic water with chunks of lemon out of my garden which is kinda fulfilling since I used to give the lemons away at work. I'm spending a small fortune on tonic but my liver now loves me again!