Chocolate Stout Cake with Cherries: Fudgy and Flourless! Chocolate stout cake is the perfect way to get back into your life after getting lost in writing a book. It’s like asking for forgiveness for your comprehensive neglect without actually apologizing for fear of reminding everyone how absent you’ve been as you waded through 30,000 words.… Read More
Honey Stout Glazed Flank Steak Lettuce Wraps This post was sponsored by PCC Community Markets and Oregon Country Beef. Partnerships with The Beeroness and outside companies are rare and only occur when the company’s products are ones I use and enjoy myself. All ideas and opinions are my own. It took three planes and 30… Read More
Grilled Mongolian Stout Beef Skewers This post was sponsored by PCC Community Markets and Oregon Country Beef. Partnerships with The Beeroness and outside companies are rare and only occur when the company’s products are ones I use and enjoy myself. All ideas and opinions are my own. When I was just days away from turning into… Read More
Drunk Diablo: Chocolate Stout Devils Food Cake with Mexican Hot Chocolate Frosting When you have a weird job, there are two categories of projects you work on. The first types are the reasons you got into this in the first place. The love projects. The creative soul projects. The goosebumps and fevered excitement projects. Those are the ones… Read More
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 Recipe 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