Elote Pilsner Creamy Polenta with Grilled Tajin Lime Shrimp and Halloumi Sometimes it feels as if my recipes are just a long string of predictive text that I figure out how to make into a meal. Or I keep trying one-up myself until I can’t fit anything else in a bowl, but it’s how I… Read More
Burrata Burrito with Smoked Salmon and Creamy Beer Pesto Let’s do something fun, something that doesn’t require a face mask and hand sanitizer. Find your quarantine person and somehow bring up that you want to do a cooking challenge, you against them. But, there are some rules of course. Rule 1: The dish can’t take… Read More
Huli Huli Beer Chicken, the best chicken marinade! This is the front runner in my quest to grill all the things. Meaning, it is my current absolute-without-question-totally-serious favorite grilled thing. And I have grilled ALL THE THINGS, as in, I’ve grilled cake and garlic. Not at the same time, that would just be mean to… Read More
Grilled Stout Brined Sirloin and Corn Salad with Tahini Pale Ale Dressing I want to tell you a story, one about myself, because it’s all I have to offer right now. Growing up, things were exactly easy. Here are the CliffsNotes: Dead dad, disjointed family, moved a lot, hardly enough money to feed us all. Because… Read More
Grilled Beer Chicken Legs with Caramelized Yakitori Glaze I served this with homemade biscuits, is that weird? Yes, the answer is yes. I suppose that you should serve it with something vegetal, or salad-adjacent, but I needed a big ‘ole plate o’carbs. Because biscuits are just better with dinner than with breakfast, there I said… Read More
Thai Chili Beer Chicken in Spicy Peanut Satay Sauce This is 100% because I’m clumsy. You’d think that an actual grown-up human person would be able to eat chicken off stabby things, I mean SKEWERS, without actually stabbing themselves. But you would be wrong. I have several stabby thing related injuries and I’m trying not… Read More
Brioche French Toast with Beer Caramelized Peaches Breakfast is my favorite meal. Mostly because I get to make and eat it in my pajamas without judgment, but also because most of it is basically dessert we eat as an entree. We should do this with more meals, dinner cake should be a thing. Lunch brownies,… Read More
Black Bean and Grilled Poblano Elote Enchiladas with Chipotle Stout Red Sauce Ok, so I didn’t exactly grill the enchiladas, but I did think about grilling the enchiladas. I only grilled a few ingredients in the enchiladas instead of the entire dish, but I wanted to throw the entire thing on the grates. Next time… Read More
Sourdough Fried Chicken, the best fried chicken I’ve ever made! I read the other day that sourdough starters are a problem. As in: we are wasting too much flour by feeding and discarding on a daily basis. To which my brain responded with: yeah, I’m going to go ahead and worry about that as soon… Read More
Crispy Sweet Potato and Mushroom Confit Tacos with Smoky Crema Hey, friend. How are you? It’s getting harder and harder to stay positive these days, but I think it’s rather imperative to our emotional wellbeing to at least try to hold onto the good stuff longer than the bad. Not reading the bad news, and… Read More
Overnight Sourdough Beer Waffles Do you remember parties? The kind you went to in-person and didn’t involve internet access and a Zoom account? Yeah, me too, just barely. Do you remember being in a group of strangers, standing close, and even letting them taste your beer? Now that idea is slightly horrifying but also rebelliously… Read More
Tandoori Beer Meatball Subs with Garlic Raita I forgot about meatballs. For years I failed to realize that meatballs do not necessitate a bed of pasta. I love pasta, this you know, and I love meatballs, but in my brain, the two are not a match. Meatballs and pasta are like that couple you know… Read More
Sriracha Stout Braised Beef Shanks over Gouda Polenta Slow cooking things helps in times of crisis, this is a true fact. It reminds us that everything changes and good things are ahead, we just have to be patient. We have to sit back and let the things work, even if we can’t see the things… Read More
Grilled Harissa Sesame Beer Chicken with Lemon Cilantro Tahini Remember when I had you buy tahini to make this Beer Chicken Shwarma with Tahini Aoili? Well, that jar of tahini is about to get another workout. I COULD sit here and tell you it’s because I think you already have some and I don’t want you… Read More
Japanese Beer Pancakes I tried to make this as easy as possible for you. Because I know that although I really like to spend all day in the kitchen, you probably don’t. The first run-through I tried a blender because it’s how I make crepes. I was hoping the blade would blend the egg whites… Read More
Drunk Ramen Carbonara, the ultimate pantry meal! I don’t want to tell you how to live your quarantine life, but you should make this. It’s a huge step up from just eating a package of store-bought ramen, which, let’s be honest, we all want to do right now. It makes you feel like you’ve actually… Read More
There is a lot of uncertainty right now, but let’s talk about what is certain. Yoga pants and pajamas are socially acceptable all day. Cake can now be eaten at all meals without guilt. And the government has officially declared brewery staff to be considered essential during the shelter in place lockdown. But we already… Read More
Hoisin Pineapple Beer Pork over Coconut Lime Rice How are you out there? Are you ok? If you’re like me, and I kind of think you are, you have two opposite feelings, nearly back to back, and it’s unsettling. My thoughts jump from “Everyone needs to settle down, you are all overreacting!” to “Are we… Read More