It’s a hectic Wednesday morning and I’m trying to get it all straight in my head. I have emails to answer, deliverables to finishes, calls to make. It makes me want to shut down. I’m not organized, that side of this slightly insane job that I’ve chosen for myself makes me want to crawl under… Read More
I’m sitting at a bar in Bogota, Colombia, communicating the best I can through broken Spanish. Laughing with several kitchen’s worth of chef’s, trying to convince them that, even though I nearly passed out from the altitude, and I’m in fact, not pregnant. They motion with their hands to create invisible fake bellies, then laugh.… Read More
No Yeast 20-minute Beer Flat Bread I was trapped in the back of a rug factory in Morocco when I realized how relative things are. I was sitting on a stool made out of a block of wood, walls made of thick adobe all around me, the large wooden door had been slammed shut and… Read More
Vanilla Beer Cake Bites with Blueberry Filling Sometimes I just need a second. A second to take a breath. Of course I love the tumbling-forward-faster-than-I-can-keep-up-with pace that my life takes, but I need a second. Spring is the season to pause. The season to sit on the porch, long conversations with friends, favorites rediscovered, season.… Read More
Homemade Beer Hot Dog Buns Somewhere between the tenth and fifteenth IPA I sampled this weekend, I realized something. Trying my best to taste the beer I was in charge of judging through a hop wrecked palate I realized that I love citrus. I love the bright, fresh flavors of citra hops, grapefruit peels, orange… Read More
Cream Cheese Beer Pancakes with Strawberry Saison Syrup I’m standing in the middle of a craft store talking quietly on my phone to an 87-year-old woman who wants to ship me weed. I’m acutely aware of the fact that I’m actually embarrassed to tell her that I’ve never smoked weed. Ever. Not even in high… Read More
Grilled Parmesan Beer Chicken Calzones. Your new favorite grill recipe. Sure, you can grill meat. You can throw hot dogs on the grill, and a couple burgers. You can have yourself a hot meat party and invite your friends over. Meat just scratches the grilled-food surface. It’s the obvious choice, the blended margarita on… Read More
Maple Bacon Beer Waffles. Win at breakfast. Everyday you have a flight. A flight of meals that starts with breakfast. Maybe it’s a hastily consumed piece of toast as your rush out the door, or a Grande cup of caffeine, or maybe you miss out in favor of a few extra minutes of sleep. Then… Read More
Rosemary Beer Chicken and Skillet Potatoes. Just one pot and dinner is done. I once tried to help a homeless woman get an apartment. She’d wondered into the lobby of the building I was working at in Beverly Hills. She was sweet, well over 70-years-old, and seemed quite healthy for the life she was living.… Read More
Garlic Parmesan Hefeweizen Pull Apart Bread I worked for a money laundered in college. I was a waitress at a small cafe right on the Rose Parade route through Pasadena. It wasn’t until later that I was able to dissect how complicit I was in his illegal dealings. He’d call me once a day and… Read More
Baked Rigatoni Pasta in Beer Tomato Cream Sauce. One pot, five minute prep, even the pasta gets cooked in the pan. Let’s say that we changed the way we categorize food. You’d flip open a cookbook, your finger gliding down the index, and in place of familiar section titles like “breakfast,” and “appetizers,”… Read More
Coconut Curry Beer Chicken Soup. 20 minutes, one pot, so good. The best chicken curry I’ve ever had was in a seedy part of Van Nuys, just north of Los Angles. This was also the setting of the most awkward conversation I’ve ever had with a stranger. The restaurant resembles a by-the-hour hotel with… Read More
Drunken Winter Farro Blood Orange Salad with Stout Balsamic Glaze Winter citrus is like a promise. A reminder that spring is almost here. It’s not the standard beige winter produce, it’s bright and bold and completely unlike anything else that grows this time of year. For the few weeks that blood oranges gift us with… Read More
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
Honey Hefeweizen Boule Loaf. Simple, easy and delicious. Perfect recipe for first time bakers! Last year, with a camera crew in my face, I interviewed the head brewer at my favorite Los Angeles brewery. “All I am is a yeast wrangler. I don’t work for the brewery, I work for the yeast.” He laughed until… 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
Lemon Pepper Crusted Beer Steamed Sea Bass Cheeks, just 20 minutes to a delicious and perfect dinner. I’m always drawn to things I know nothing about, comfort zones make me a bit restless. While this can get me into a bit of trouble in my personal life, it has substantial benefits in my saucepans. Take… Read More
Summer beers have arrive, filling the shelves of our bottle shops with pale ambiguous summer refreshment. If you’re new to beer, these labels can be a bit confusing due to the comprehensive lack of cohesion with the title: summer ale. Some have a beautiful bitter hop bite, some have a nice malty flavor, some are… Read More