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, with a much lower marquee value than growing up rich, but bear with me. You learn things you’d never learn if you… 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 once you’ve finished it. I was alone on a train and she sits 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
These Grilled Beer Chicken Sliders with Burrata and Stout Chipotle Cherry Sauce can be made on a grill, or indoors in a grill pan. Easy and delicious, perfect for game day! Welcome to the new year. Welcome to the year that is equal parts a welcomed relief and intensely terrifying. Let’s make a plan, you and… Read More
Sweet Potato Enchiladas with Chipotle Stout Pomegranate Sauce. Quick and easy, and so delicious. Perfect Meatless Monday Meal. It finally happened. I woke up to a City covered in snow and slightly panicked about it. It wasn’t that long ago that I was living {here}, and putting up Christmas decorations in a sundress. The thing about… Read More
No Bake Chocolate Stout Cheesecake Cups are super easy and simple with only about ten minutes prep. Perfect make ahead dessert! I think it’s because of how hard this year has been. Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe it’s just time. We are all returning to the classics. Going back to what’s familiar and comforting. We’re… Read More
I have something for you, it has beer in to. I made some toffee, full of beer flavor, bacon and salty pretzels for good measure. I also have something else, something that you can fill with beer. Or give to your favorite beer loving human for the holidays. It’s a SYNEK tabletop beer dispenser that… Read More
Pulled Chipotle Beer Chicken Sliders I’ve made a decision. I need to clear the emotional cache from this past week. I need to a little distance from reality and my incessant need to over-think. I need a break and a beer and I’ve decided that a trip to Bend, Oregon can fix what ails me right… Read More
Spiked Hot Chocolate with Salted Caramel Whipped Cream Jennifer was one of those people I admired right away. Her gorgeous photos, flawless recipes (she’s a trained chef), and she just seemed like someone I wanted to have a beer with. After we passed the obligatory blog-stalking-each-other period, we became friends. She’s someone who will give… Read More
Football season is about more than just the game. It’s the communal cheering, the epic match-ups and the crowd of friends rooting for the home team. Of course, there is always that guy who’s on the wrong side of the cheering, upsetting the game-day-chi with his sad-face reaction to what everyone else is rooting for.… Read More