Snaffling the ingredients

I am in trouble, after drinking all the wine which Maiyuu uses for cooking.

A few weeks ago, he bought a bottle of champagne. I can't believe he was proposing to tip this in his next cooking mix (it cost almost B1000), but Maiyuu is not used to buying wine, and has trouble telling drinking wine from the cheap stuff we throw in the pot.

'Where's the bottle of champagne?' he asked the other day. He had opened it a few days before, but we didn't finish it. I polished it off one morning while he was not looking.

'I drank it,' I said sheepishly.

'I wanted to use that for cooking!' he claimed. In that case, you can pay me B1000,' he said.

I talked him out of that, but then he insisted that I also settle accounts for a bottle of red and white, which he had bought a few weeks earlier, once again for cooking. Once again, this was quaffing wine, not the cheap stuff we use for cooking.

The red is gone, the white almost empty. He has used both a little for his cooking, but my needs have been greater.

The wine just looked too inviting, squeezed in among bags of cooking flour, eggs and cooking paraphernalia on the dining room table. I drank most of the them, I am afraid to say.

I agreed that I would help him with the cost of the red, so yesterday paid over B300, after negotiating him down from his initial demand of B500.