Sriracha Lime Beer Corn Fritters. Perfect appetizer in just 15 minutes. It’s been a year. One year since I packed a moving truck full of my Los Angeles life, threw my bulldog in my car, and headed north. 12 months since I drove the length of Highway 1 through Big Sur, up into Oregon and… Read More
Glazed Doughnut Beer Cake. A cake that tastes like a big doughnut. I made you a cake. It tastes like a doughnut. I knew you’d like that, which is why I made it for you before I sit here and ask you for a favor. I’m much more comfortable when things are the other way… Read More
Beer Velvet Cake. No food dye, all win. Let’s talk about red velvet for a second. It’s a cultural phenomenon with inspired spin offs that include vodka, candles, coffee, and a myriad of other head tilt inducing concoctions that lead me to wonder why exactly this dessert deserving of all this hype. Sure, I’ve had… Read More
Pale Ale and Baby Kale Creamy Pesto, this five minute sauce is a game changer. If you’ve ever waited tables, you’ve had this nightmare. You’re slammed. Every table in your section has been sat all at once, plus the section you’re covering for the guy who was cut early. You have 17 four tops. The… Read More
Garlic Parmesan Hefeweizen Pull Apart Bread I worked for a money laundered in college. I was a waitress in a small cafe right on the Rose Parade route through Pasadena. it wasn’t until later that I was able to dissect how complicit I was in his illegal dealings. He’d call me once a day and… Read More
Baked Rigatoni Pasta in Beer Tomato Cream Sauce. One pot, five minute prep, even the pasta gets cooked in the pan. Let’s say that we changed the way we categorize food. You’d flip open a cookbook, your finger gliding down the index, and in place of familiar section titles like “breakfast,” and “appetizers,”… Read More
Coconut Curry Beer Chicken Soup. 20 minutes, one pot, so good. The best chicken curry I’ve ever had was in a seedy part of Van Nuys, just north of Los Angles. This was also the setting of the most awkward conversation I’ve ever had with a stranger. The restaurant resembles a by-the-hour hotel with… Read More
Drunk French Toast Sticks with Beer Blood Orange Syrup. Win at breakfast. Breakfast being the most important meal has nothing to do with nurtition. It’s not about blood sugar, or enriched whole grains or jumpstarting your metabolism. It’s emotional. Breakfast is important because of who we eat it with. The people who live in… Read More
Drunken Winter Farro Blood Orange Salad with Stout Balsamic Glaze Winter citrus is like a promise. A reminder that spring is almost here. It’s not the standard beige winter produce, it’s bright and bold and completely unlike anything else that grows this time of year. For the few weeks that blood oranges gift us with… Read More
Chocolate Stout Peanut Butter Cups. Three Ingredients, crazy good. Let’s agree to make stuff this year. Because you and I, we like that. We like getting our hands and our kitchens dirty, ignoring the dishes that are starting to pile up as the vision we have for our edible creation taking shape. We like that… Read More
How to Make The Creamiest Baked Mac N Cheese: Gouda Cheddar Beer Mac. Perfectly cheesy and creamy every time! For something so seemingly simple, it’s easy to get this wrong. It’s easy to end up with dried up pan of overcooked noodles in a curdled sauce. It’s easy to spend too much time and… Read More
Beer Braised Pulled Pork Sliders with Chipotle Beer Cheese Sauce. Perfect football food! I get to do things. Fun things, cool things. This still feels new to me, these fun cool things. I spent years working with grubby, incredible, wonderful, difficult, heartbreaking kids in South Central LA. Then I worked behind a desk, in the… Read More
Beer Crab Cake Balls, incredibly delicious and adictive. Perfect for game day! We can’t over think this one. We wont. Because if we did we would think about deep-frying, get nervous about it, wonder if people actually like crab and deep fried things as much as we do, worry about the friend who pretends to… Read More
Short Rib Black Bean Beer Chili, SO GOOD. It’s eat-it-out-of-the-pot-before-anyone-else-can-have-any good. The only food that really comforts me is the food I make myself. The food I serve to people I love, even just one person, in my small kitchen, over an exchanging of words that are hard to speak. I don’t want… Read More
Baked Buttermilk Beer Popcorn Chicken with Honey Beer Dipping Sauce. So easy and even freezer friendly! When I was 22 I worked at a locked down level 14 facility that housed juvenile delinquents. I was only there to work with one. A baby faced 12-year-old named Tyrell with dark chocolate skin and big brown eyes.… Read More
Stout Harissa Chicken Thighs. Crazy good one pot chicken. Let’s talk about an interesting question. A specifically head-tilt inducing question I’ve been asked a few dozen times over the past few months, “How do I get people to try craft beer?” My furrowed-brow-blank-stared response is usually as simple as, “Why wouldn’t they?” The… Read More
Garlic Beer Butter Cod with Pale Ale Romesco. So easy and SO good. The Romesco is insanely amazing. Cod needs to be made with butter. It needs the beautiful richness to pull itself up through the firm flesh of this gorgeous fish and have it’s way with the flavors. Cod needs to be seduced by… Read More
Honey Hefeweizen Boule Loaf. Simple, easy and delicious. Perfect recipe for first time bakers! Last year, with a camera crew in my face, I interviewed the head brewer at my favorite Los Angeles brewery. “All I am is a yeast wrangler. I don’t work for the brewery, I work for the yeast.” He laughed until… Read More