Hefeweizen Mozzarella Bombs You should do an experiment. Before you become so dismissive of the impact of beer in baking (or, as a marinade for chicken), do a side by side. Sometime we beer-cook because of the flavor, but not always. Do you taste the baking soda in your cake? Of course not. But if… Read More
Coconut Beer Steamer Clam Chowder I remember the walls were dirty. Before he tried to push the glass table through my torso, I could only focus on the stains spread like a grease constellation across the Navajo White walls of the government subsidized apartment I was trapped in. His mom’s girlfriend wrapped her dark, sinewy… Read More
10-Minute Tater Tot Beer Cheese and Chives Soup You don’t have to make a decision. There’s no pressure to decide if you really want to give this a try, or if you think it’s a new deviant low in beer cooking. It can always be both. More than anything, its a reminder. Don’t look both… Read More
I grill pizza more often than I grill anything else. Unless you have a pizza oven in your backyard, it’s likely your best option when it comes to at home pizza cooking. Or, in this case, parking-lot-back-of-a-truck-with-a-portable-grill cooking. You get those lovely grilled char marks that you want when open flames are cooking your food,… Read More
Gochujang Beer Cheese Dip and Is Gochujang The New Sriracha? There are similarities, I’ll be honest. Spicy red sauces, with fermented ingredients, originally from the Far East. Americans “discovered” these sauces, that have been around for generations in other countries, and decide they are the hot “new” thing. Clearly, Sriracha and Gochujang have a lot in… Read More
Fill your glass. Fill your stomach. Fill your heart. Roast chicken, accompanied by an opened bottled of hard to find beer, is the way to communicate comfort from the kitchen. It’s a dish that’s been made billions of times, with just as many variations, a dish that can grace the silk covered tables of the… Read More
I’ve always been an adventurous eater. I ate ants in Colombia, snake meat in Greece, mint tea made with a brown liquid I couldn’t identify in Morocco. If it’s new to me, I want to try it. I want to eat all the things, even if I know I’ll hate them. Even the few things… Read More
Sugar Beer Doughnut Holes This is my go-to. It’s been my summer backyard party staple. It’s what I’ve been making for months when I get the invite to “come over, we’re making food, just bring whatever.” It’s all the things I look for in bring-to-a-party food. It transports well, it sits at room temperature for… Read More
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 really been into weed. Not ever. Not… 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