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
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
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
Apple Pie with Pale Ale Mascarpone Cream and Beer Pie Dough There are always these things that I keep coming back to. Faded destroyed jeans, vintage rock t-shirts, Van Morrison, Old Rasputin, the first Back to the Future movie, apple pie. It was one of those recipes that always felt perfect, even when it wasn’t.… Read More
Twenty Minute Cinnamon Roll Beer Biscuits, plus the secret to the perfect cinnamon roll filling that doesn’t leak out the side once cut. I’ve had a complicated year. One that began with life in one state and ended in another, literally and figuratively. A year of answering questions with “It’s complicated.” Where I’m living, what… Read More
If there is one type of book that I will always want in the print version, it’s a cookbook. I want to feel the pages, make my own notes, and someday pass it down to future generations. It becomes a conversation between decades, an engagement among generations, that connects people in a way that… Read More
How to Make Flaky Biscuits, step by step with photos, & Sour Cream Cheddar Beer Biscuits Biscuits, the glorious tender flaky beast that they are become the subject of massive levels of debate for something with so few ingredients. Ask a Southern grandma what she thinks and she’ll tell you you’re doing it… Read More
Puff Pastry Shrimp Beer Cheese Sweet Chili Bites. Only 10 minutes prep! Right out of college I got a job working with gang kids in South Central Los Angeles, like this one and this one. I was prepared to be afraid of them, bracing myself to be on the defense, even packing pepper spray in… Read More
Spicy Chicken Sausage White Bean Beer Chili. One pot, twenty minutes, crazy good. For the first time in my life, winter has been the best season of the year. 2014 has been hard on me, beating me up in ways I didn’t expect, traumatic in ways I’ll never forget. Seattle, and the beautiful winter, has been… Read More
Beer Candied Bacon Dark Chocolate Bark plus Holiday Gifts for Beer Lovers If you were to ask me about the best gift I’ve ever been given it’d take me a while to come up with the answer. I’m always uncomfortable getting gifts, awkwardly opening them as the giver waits for the expected reaction. Giving them,… Read More
Trashed Up Beer Cheese Tater Tot Pizza. Worth every. single. calorie. SO good. A great blog sucks you in. Not just the food, or the photos, but the person behind it. A person you become a least mildly obsessed with. A real-life human who writes in a way that you makes you want more of… Read More
Sriracha and Beer Fried Chicken with Sriracha Honey Glaze. The best fried chicken I’ve ever made, and really simple. The best fried chicken I’ve ever had was in a trailer park in Compton, a particularly rough part of South Central Los Angeles (you can read that story here). Since then I’ve had a mild obsession with… Read More
Roasted Garlic and Potato Beer Cheese Soup I’m a bit of a free spirit, an outside the box person. The thought of taking a cruise makes me feel panicked and trapped, as does the thought of living in a tract house, or working in a cubicle. These are all things that people want, right? To… Read More
Football fries: Chipotle Beer Cheese Oven Fries When I was 17 I decided to sell vacuums door-to-door. It was a great plan, I’d met a guy who had made a few thousand dollars in just one day, it seemed like easy money. After a quick intro seminar in an office park in a bad area… Read More
Blackberry Beer Breakfast Muffins A few years ago I spent a week in Ireland, at a hostel at the base of the Guinness brewery. Somewhere near 9am I wandered into a nearby restaurant that was much more pub than grub. At the bar was a bit of a surly local, just him and me. I… Read More
When I was 22 I was recruited by a modeling agent while I was shopping for shoes on Melrose. I said no. Nothing about that interested me at all. At the time I was teaching anger management skills to gang members in south central LA, doing work that matter to me,… Read More