Miniature Dutch Baby Oven Beer Pancakes with Nutella Whipped Cream I’m not sure what I miss more, travel, or alone time. Both of these have been scarce this year, and I miss both fiercely. This is what I miss: airplanes. Being on a plane, headphones in, looking out the window from somewhere in the middle… Read More
Chewy Gingerbread Cookies with Maple Stout Cream Cheese Filling When you were a kid, was there a thing you loved in a way that was almost embarrassing? Not pizza, or ice cream, or cake, because there is nothing embarrassing about loving the classics. I’m talking about something that you were pretty sure you’d get side-eyed… Read More
Beer Brined Lamb Chops with Herb Sauce over Fried Goat Cheese Let’s say you made a playlist, but for food. Except I’m going to call it a mixed tape because it makes me happy. On my Mixed Tape of Food I would have to include goat cheese. You can’t have complete dishes on your Mixed… Read More
Beer Caramelized Apple Tarte Tatin I wish I could tell you what apples I used for this, but I can’t. And by CAN’T I don’t mean WON’T, because I’d tell you anything, especially after a few beers. But these apples came from my backyard apple tree of unknown origin. The Apple Tree of Resentment, as… Read More
Beer and Berry Cobbler Bars Cobbler doesn’t make sense to me. It’s delicious, obviously, but it looks like a mistake. Like an upside-down pie that fell into a pan someone just pretended it was supposed to be that way and we all just went along with it because we still wanted to eat it. Which… Read More
Overnight Yeasted Beer Waffles with Blueberry Syrup This is really because I love you. And waffles, obviously. My favorite waffles of all time are the Sourdough Beer Waffles, they are gorgeous and amazing but do require the wild-fermented magic of a sourdough starter that takes at least a week to coax into existence. And when… Read More
Lemon Ginger Éclairs with Beer Caramel Topping. Easier than they look, and no frying makes these a simple and gorgeous way to make dessert. You need to prepare yourself for what I’m going to say, take a seat. These are not that hard. I’m serious. I’m grab-you-by-the-face-and-look-into-your-eyes serious. I know, you don’t believe me, and that’s… Read More
Pineapple Beer Jalapeño Ice Cream So, I did the thing. That thing where I tell you about a recipe but don’t actually give it to you. Because apparently quarantine has made me into an asshole. Or at the very least, unaware of life outside my little bubble of beer and making all the things. As… Read More
Grilled Beer Butter Lobster Tails with Thai Chimichurri Just decide right now to make this. Just trust me, especially if you don’t have a lot of lobster-cooking experience. It’s not hard and you won’t screw it up, I promise. Lobster tails have had all the hard tasks already done for you. All the scary, stare-a-beast-in-the-face-while-you-kill-it,… Read More
Mexican Hot Chocolate Beer Brownies with Churro Crust I made your brownies spicy and I don’t even feel bad about it. But it’s so you don’t have to share with anyone who doesn’t like spicy things. You can even over-exaggerate just HOW spicy they are in order to keep them all for yourself, I won’t… Read More
Beer Soft Pretzels with Guinness Cheese Sauce I miss pubs. I miss dive bars in strange cities, strangers in crowded bars, crowds at beer festivals. But until the world is back to normal, and until my pint doesn’t come with a side of deadly virus threats, I’ll begrudgingly stay home. And do my best to… Read More
Elote Pilsner Creamy Polenta with Grilled Tajin Lime Shrimp and Halloumi Sometimes it feels as if my recipes are just a long string of predictive text that I figure out how to make into a meal. Or I keep trying one-up myself until I can’t fit anything else in a bowl, but it’s how I… Read More
Blueberry Beer Cream Cheese Cake with Basil Whipped Cream This might be a giant blueberry muffin with an almost creamy texture, and it might be a cake that doesn’t actually need frosting. Maybe it’s a hybrid, the nexus of two similar foods, a “Cuffin”, or a “Make.” But don’t overthink it, it’s an easy one-bowl… Read More
Burrata Burrito with Smoked Salmon and Creamy Beer Pesto Let’s do something fun, something that doesn’t require a face mask and hand sanitizer. Find your quarantine person and somehow bring up that you want to do a cooking challenge, you against them. But, there are some rules of course. Rule 1: The dish can’t take… Read More
Chocolate Murder Beer Cheesecake Bars Ok, I know, MURDER is a little aggressive. But it’s like “death by chocolate” just more intense. These aren’t a “passed away peacefully in their sleep” type of bars, these are much more in your face. Literally and figuratively. And if I’m going to be taken out by a baked… Read More
Huli Huli Beer Chicken, the best chicken marinade! This is the front runner in my quest to grill all the things. Meaning, it is my current absolute-without-question-totally-serious favorite grilled thing. And I have grilled ALL THE THINGS, as in, I’ve grilled cake and garlic. Not at the same time, that would just be mean to… Read More
Sourdough Old Fashioned Beer Doughnuts, no bakers yeast makes these easy to make! This is the exception to the rule. As a rule, yeasted doughnuts are superior to all other doughnuts and cake doughnuts are just fried muffins. BUT we can all make an exception for Old Fashioned doughnuts because they are the best and… Read More
I know what you’re thinking. You’re looking at this thinking, “Why you say crostata when this is clearly a galette?” No? You weren’t thinking that because you’re normal and not a huge nerd like me? Sorry. But now I have to address this issue. This is what happens when I create a problem that didn’t… Read More