Sweet and Sticky Garlic Stout Beef, 20 minutes and it’s so good! I’m on an airplane, somewhere over South America, between Panama and Huston, Texas. I’m trying to remember waking up this morning, but sleeping the night before I leave a trip is always impossible. My brain is processing what I’m leaving, the sunburn I’m… Read More
Stouts and Scouts: No-Churn Thin Mint Beer Ice Cream. Ten-minute prep! This is my exception. Really, the only one. I have an aversion to mint that started in a cave in Middle Atlas the day before I almost died in Morocco. But the thing is, if you are ever in a cave in Middle Atlas… Read More
Mushroom Stout Not-Bolognese AKA Best Vegetarian Pasta Sauce Ever This isn’t a bolognese, I know that because my proper bolognese with tons of pork and beef is the stuff of dreams. There really isn’t a word for this sauce, it’s vegetable based but as meaty as you can get without the meat. I’m knee deep… Read More
Individual Stout Mousse Cakes with Flambé Bourbon Beer Cherries This is for you. Or really, it’s for us. Because I decided a long time ago to redefine Valentine’s day to be about more than just romantic love (although I pretty much covered romantic love that time I wrote about blowjobs). Valentines is about the people… Read More
Chipotle Pale Ale Polenta with Stout Braised Mushrooms I have something to tell you. I’m writing another book, a cookbook, obviously. It’s a book I’ve wanted to write for a while, a book that I’m excited to create. It’ll focus on cooking with not only beer, but with in-season produce. It’ll break down the seasons,… Read More
Stout Cranberry Mascarpone Chocolate Truffles I do this thing every year, and I think you should do it, too. It’s about resolutions. I make one every year, but they aren’t about denying myself things in a way that I will spend the year torturing myself with goals that revolve around fitness or money. They’re about… Read More
Prosciutto Mushroom Pasta in a Porter Cream Sauce I’ve figured something out. I have a reverse sense of fear. Is this a thing? I think so, even if it’s a term I just made up. I’m terrified of things that shouldn’t scare me, like mall Santas, commitment, and going on a cruise. But things that… Read More
Stout Osso Buco It’s been eye opening. The way the past few months have unfolded has shaken me awake. I’ve had to face the things about myself that I kept hidden like jewels in a wall safe. What I do for attention and what I do to push people away, the masks I wear and… Read More
Stout Romesco Dip (10 minutes, so good) This was been a woodwork year. One of those years when people from my distant past, from a time when I was a person who doesn’t exist anymore, come out of the woodwork to jump back into my life. They feel equal parts foreign and comfortable, like a… Read More
Grilled Stout Steak Sandwich with Charred Poblanos and Blue Cheese Sour Cream. My new favorite sandwich! Of all the things I love about this weird job I invented for myself, I have a favorite. A hands-down-favorite aspect of it all: the people. It sounds trite, saccharine, melodramatic, but it’s true. The people you meet in… Read More
Stout Smoked Ribs with Easy DIY Smoker. Once you make ribs this way, you’ll never go back! I’m having one of those days. You have them too, I know you do. When you feel like you’re failing at everything, like you aren’t where you’re supposed to be, like if people really knew you weren’t as… Read More
Chocolate Stout Mousse Tart with Bourbon Stout Cherries. Just a few ingredients and 20 minutes! So good, and so easy! Growing up poor in America has its advantages. They are obviously less sparkly and much lower marquee value than growing up rich, but bear with me. You learn things you’d never learn if you had… Read More
Chocolate Stout Fudge Sauce. Three ingredients and SO good. Win at ice cream. This is because I know you, and I know you need this. You’re like me, I imagine. You like to give things to people, and when you do give the things, you want them to be interesting. You want to go visit… Read More
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
Ridiculous Chocolate Stout Brownie Sundaes (for two) This isn’t for people who like order. For people who want everything neat, tidy and in its place. Not for people who can’t enjoy a little chaos, or see beauty in a big mess. I am not that person. Which is probably a good thing, allowing me to survive… Read More
Baked Asian Beer Barbecue Chicken Thighs. Less than 30-minutes and just a few simple steps and you have a delicious dinner! When you work from home, with limited human interaction, you do weird things. You become overly immeshed with your UPS guy, to the point that you are genuinely disappointed when there is another guy… Read More
Slow Cooker Stout Caramelized Onion Dip I don’t do resolutions. That’s wrong. I do. Every year. Just not the ones that normal people do. Mine are never about giving things up, that’s desolate. Resolutions should give you hope about the future, not dread. I make resolutions that make me want to plow forward into the new year.… Read More
Vanilla Orange Hefe Pound Cake with Espresso Stout Ganache I come to this place every few years. The what do I want? phase. The place I seem to end up after I absentmindedly allow the people-pleaser in my heart to overtake the independent gypsy in my soul. Remember my fuck stupid food manifesto? The place… Read More