Grilled Stout Brined Sirloin and Corn Salad with Tahini Pale Ale Dressing I want to tell you a story, one about myself, because it’s all I have to offer right now. Growing up, things were exactly easy. Here are the CliffsNotes: Dead dad, disjointed family, moved a lot, hardly enough money to feed us all. Because… Read More
Breakfast Beer Focaccia Do you have a favorite meal? Is it breakfast? Say it’s breakfast so that we can be the same. I like it when we agree. My love for breakfast really doesn’t have as much to do with the food as it does with the Breakfast People. These are always your favorite people,… Read More
Sourdough Beer Biscuits I know I told you that it would be DAYS before I posted this recipe, and in reality, it’s been like 30 hours, but that’s the nature of our existance right now, right? 30 quarantine hours seem like days. Quarantine days are like dog years, each one is equal to seven regular… Read More
Grilled Beer Chicken Legs with Caramelized Yakitori Glaze I served this with homemade biscuits, is that weird? Yes, the answer is yes. I suppose that you should serve it with something vegetal, or salad-adjacent, but I needed a big ‘ole plate o’carbs. Because biscuits are just better with dinner than with breakfast, there I said… Read More
Mixed Berry Beer-For-Breakfast Pastries I am here to normalize beer for breakfast. Although I’m fairly certain the pandemic has already done that. The hours, days, weeks just sort of run together like a watercolor painting. The upside is beer for breakfast so let us focus on that for now. You’re probably thinking “why did you… Read More
Sourdough Beer Doughnuts with Nutella Mousse Filling Doughnuts are my thing. My last meal thing, my birthday treat thing. Cake is great, but it’s not as good as doughnuts. It’s sort of becoming a thing on my birthday, finding nearby doughnuts wherever I happen to find myself. Even when I was here, I was able… Read More
Thai Chili Beer Chicken in Spicy Peanut Satay Sauce This is 100% because I’m clumsy. You’d think that an actual grown-up human person would be able to eat chicken off stabby things, I mean SKEWERS, without actually stabbing themselves. But you would be wrong. I have several stabby thing related injuries and I’m trying not… Read More
Spanish Beer Chicken What are you doing to feel normal? To forget that we use phrases like “the virus” and “pre-pandemic” and “social distancing” more often than ever thought possible? For some people, it’s routine that brings comfort, and for others, it’s the lack of it. I have never been a schedule keeper, so that… Read More
Brioche French Toast with Beer Caramelized Peaches Breakfast is my favorite meal. Mostly because I get to make and eat it in my pajamas without judgment, but also because most of it is basically dessert we eat as an entree. We should do this with more meals, dinner cake should be a thing. Lunch brownies,… Read More
Black Bean and Grilled Poblano Elote Enchiladas with Chipotle Stout Red Sauce Ok, so I didn’t exactly grill the enchiladas, but I did think about grilling the enchiladas. I only grilled a few ingredients in the enchiladas instead of the entire dish, but I wanted to throw the entire thing on the grates. Next time… Read More
Sourdough Fried Chicken, the best fried chicken I’ve ever made! I read the other day that sourdough starters are a problem. As in: we are wasting too much flour by feeding and discarding on a daily basis. To which my brain responded with: yeah, I’m going to go ahead and worry about that as soon… Read More
Crispy Sweet Potato and Mushroom Confit Tacos with Smoky Crema Hey, friend. How are you? It’s getting harder and harder to stay positive these days, but I think it’s rather imperative to our emotional wellbeing to at least try to hold onto the good stuff longer than the bad. Not reading the bad news, and… Read More
Overnight Sourdough Beer Waffles Do you remember parties? The kind you went to in-person and didn’t involve internet access and a Zoom account? Yeah, me too, just barely. Do you remember being in a group of strangers, standing close, and even letting them taste your beer? Now that idea is slightly horrifying but also rebelliously… Read More
Tandoori Beer Meatball Subs with Garlic Raita I forgot about meatballs. For years I failed to realize that meatballs do not necessitate a bed of pasta. I love pasta, this you know, and I love meatballs, but in my brain, the two are not a match. Meatballs and pasta are like that couple you know… Read More
Sriracha Stout Braised Beef Shanks over Gouda Polenta Slow cooking things helps in times of crisis, this is a true fact. It reminds us that everything changes and good things are ahead, we just have to be patient. We have to sit back and let the things work, even if we can’t see the things… Read More
Dulce de Leche Beer Cheesecake Bars with Brown Sugar Pretzel Crust I am currently in the “way too excited about small things” phase of this quarantine. Let’s talk examples, it’ll be fun. Finding a can of sweetened condensed milk in my pantry that I didn’t know I had is equal to the levels of excitement… Read More
Pineapple Pilsner Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Coconut Ginger Cream Cheese Frosting We have officially reached the “dozen cupcakes for dinner” portion of this pandemic. It’s good news, it means we are close to the end. Isn’t that how this works? I’m certain it is, but you should probably listen to actual health professionals about this… Read More
Grilled Harissa Sesame Beer Chicken with Lemon Cilantro Tahini Remember when I had you buy tahini to make this Beer Chicken Shwarma with Tahini Aoili? Well, that jar of tahini is about to get another workout. I COULD sit here and tell you it’s because I think you already have some and I don’t want you… Read More