This recipe first crossed my eyes as "purple pasta." Once I read the ingredients, I was definitely skeptical. Who soaks pasta in wine? I quickly dismissed the recipe as a joke. But as the days passed I thought, "You've never tried something like this [and no one I spoke to had either]. Who knows?" Curiosity started to do its thing. The tipping point finally occurred when one of my roommates proclaimed "This Thursday is Thirsty Thursday. We should eat and drink lots of wine!" Little did she know that we really were going to "eat" lots of wine.