Stout Beer Barbeque Sauce She told me what it takes to be really lucky. To live a life that helps you slip quietly into content satisfaction when you’ve finished it. I was alone on a train and she down next to me, assigned seats that are little more than a formality but beg us to behave… Read More

Beer Cheese Burger with Onion Rings and Beer Pickled Jalapenos Don’t make this. I’m warning you. But here you are, still reading, contemplating making this. So let me tell you how this will go down. First, it’ll seem like a lot of steps, you’ll hesitate. Then you’ll realize that the jalapeños can be made weeks… Read More

IPA Pickled Jalapeños, quick and easy pickled jalapeños made with beer I’m in a shitty dive bar in what can nicely be referred to as an “up and coming” area of town, and the guy I’ve just met asks me the question I’m asked far too often. Maybe for lack of a better conversation starter… Read More

Grilled Beer Brined Filet Tips with Hoisin Glaze, just 4  ingredients and SO good. I was once the host of a TV show. For a brief shining moment (6 days to be exact), before it was all canceled and the show was scrapped, I was able to travel from brewery to brewery, interviewing interesting people and… Read More

Summer IPA Panzanella Salad. It’s a salad with bread! It’s the best. SO good! This is my way of forcing the situation. Seattle hasn’t been kind to me this winter, the rain has been abundant, as has the power outages and the snow fall. Luckily, I’ve been able to escape to Panama and Kona, but… Read More

Breakfast Empanadas and 24 Hours in Grand Rapids Beer City USA   I stood, unprepared, in what was rapidly becoming a snowstorm outside the gates of an outdoor beer festival in Grand Rapids, Michigan. On a day that locals swore would be met with “spring like weather,” only to have the weather Gods laugh in… Read More

Awesome Chocolate Stout Loaf Cake that Happens to Be Vegan For a very meat eating, dairy lover I have an odd obsession with vegan food. But I have a few hard and fast rules. First and foremost, it can’t be “good for vegan,” it has to be so good people actually say “wait…this is vegan?”… Read More

  I’m in Panama right now, but I already told you that. I’m mid-menu-consultation for a brewpub in Panama City, and I made them all stop (yes, they are waiting on me) so that I could share this recipe with you. And the book it came out of. When I find a great cooking with beer recipe,… Read More

Hopsta: The Hop Pasta Experiment,  what happens when The Beeroness and Salty Seattle decide to make pasta together   It’s hard to say when we started to suspect that something had gone wrong. It might have been when we were pouring handfuls of dried hop cones into the Vitamix, or when the aroma wafting out… Read More

Blood Orange IPA Bars with Saffron Cream Good morning, my friends. I’m in the midst of prepping for a few weeks away. Back to back trips to Grand Rapids, Michigan; Panama City, Panama; Kona, Maui, and someday finding my way back to the drizzly Pacific Northwest. I’ll never get numb to these trips. I’ll never… Read More