Grilled Beer Butter Scallops with Cherry Salsa

Grilled Beer Butter Scallops with Cherry Salsa, with a grill or a grill pan!

Let’s talk scallops for a second. I know, I’ve given you this lecture before but it’s been a while. And I can’t just go around assuming you remember everything I say, I forget half of what I say on a daily basis.

I know the reason your home-cooked scallops don’t taste as good as the ones you buy at a restaurant, and it’s a really easy fix. There are two ways to buy scallops: “wet” and “dry.” A wet scallop with be soaked in a phosphate solution to preserve it. This makes it taste soapy and gives it a bit of a rubbery texture. Unfortunately, the vast majority of scallops sold in US markets are wet. Dry scallops are more expensive, harder to come by, but infinitely tastier.

If you can’t find dry scallops, the best way to treat a wet scallops is a quick brine. If you aren’t sure if your scallops are wet or dry (or your fish guy gives you a vacant stare when you ask) they’re probably wet. Just assume they’re wet unless you know for sure they aren’t.

Have you ever been cooking scallops, just minding your own business, and they start weeping out a milky liquid like they hate you? That’s the phosphate solution we need to get rid of, the extra step is well worth it.

You don’t even have to tell anyone that you know the secret. You can just cook the best scallops they’ve ever had and just pretend like it’s your magic shelfish touch. I won’t tell.

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Grilled Beer Butter Scallops with Cherry Salsa

Ingredients

Scallops:

1 lbs colossal or jumbo scallops
2 tablespoons salt
1 cup (8oz) beer pale lager, pilsner, wheat beer
4 tablespoons (57g) butter, melted
¼ cup (2oz) beer
Creamy polenta or rice for serving

Salsa:

1¾ cup (½ lbs) pitted and quartered Bing cherries
1 jalapeno seeded and minced
2 tablespoons (25g) minced shallots
2 tablespoons (4g) minced cilantro
1 tablespoon (15g) lime juice
pinch salt

Instructions

In a large bowl add the scallops. Fill with water, drain. Repeat until the water is no longer milky. Drain the water off, leave the scallops in the bowl.
Sprinkle with salt and cover with beer. Refrigerate for 2 to 12 hours. Rinse and drain. Add to a stack of paper towels to fully dry the scallops.
Combine all the salsa ingredients in a bowl, chill until ready to use.
Preheat a grill (or grill pan) to medium high.
Stir together the butter and the beer. Brush the scallops liberally.
Place on the grill (or grill pan), brush again with butter. Flip when grill marks appear, cook on the other side until grill marks appear.
Serve topped with cherry salsa.

Honey Beer Glazed Salmon with Mango Avocado Salsa

Honey Beer Glazed Salmon with Mango Avocado Salsa

I need this, it’s rather necessary. Since I spend my life contractually obligated to drink beer and eat foods like this and this, I need recipes like this Salmon with Mango Avocado Salsa. For the sake of my liver and my skinny jeans, it’s important. But I can also act like a spoiled child when it comes to food and really need something that tastes fun and indulgent.

So I make these recipes that I get really excited about and hope that I don’t notice that it’s also rather healthy, much in the same way you smuggle cauliflower into your toddler’s mashed potatoes and hope they don’t notice. I do this with myself, I’m really good it. I don’t even notice that I’ve made a healthy meal because I got so excited to make it in the first place.

I know, it’s ridiculous. But I have to do what I can before my liver figures out how to call the cops on me for widespread abuse.

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Honey Beer Glazed Salmon with Mango Avocado Salsa

Servings: 4 servings

Ingredients

For the Salmon

4 salmon fillets
¼ cup 85g honey
½ cup 115g pale ale beer
1 teaspoon 6g salt
1 teaspoon 1g red pepper flakes

For the salsa:

1 large mango peeled, pitted and diced
1 large avocado peeled pitted and diced
½ 1 large red onion diced
1 jalapeno diced
1 red bell pepper seeded and diced
¼ cup cilantro chopped
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Add the honey, beer, salt, and pepper to a wide, shallow bowl. Stir to combine (heat slightly if the honey is resisting combining with the beer. Make sure to cool before adding salmon to prevent the marinate cooking the salmon).
Add the salmon, turn over a few times to fully coat the fish. Cover and chill for 1 to 24 hours.
Preheat the grill to medium-high.
Add the salsa ingredients to a large bowl, toss to combine.
Place the salmon on the grill, skin side down. Close the cover, cooking until the salmon is cooked through (no need to flip over, the salmon will cook with the grill cover closed).
Remove from grill, add to a serving plate. Top with salsa before serving.

Prosciutto Wrapped Beer Brined Scallops with Chimichurri Butter + The Tabletop Draft Pour System that I love

This post was sponsored by Fizzics. Partnerships with The Beeroness and outside companies only occur when the company’s products are ones I use and enjoy myself. All ideas, words, and opinions are my  own

Beer is communal. It’s more than a beverage, it’s the center of a gathering. Whenever I travel I always bring back beer, not just to remember what the trip tasted like, but to share it with friends. It’s the best way to experience travel stories, over the beer that you were drinking while those stories were unfolding.

I recently tried out this Fizzics Draft Pour system and I was really impressed. It’s small, super easy to use, and it fits any beer in my beer fridge. The pours that come off of it have a sort of CO₂/nitro hybrid taste and mouthfeel without the need for any additional chemicals or gasses. It uses sound. Crazy, right? It works beautifully and unlike that table-top soda machine I had that one time, you don’t need to constantly refill any gas cartridges because it doesn’t use any. All you need is 2 AA batteries, or you can just plug it in.

It makes the bottles I brought back from California taste like a draft pour, and it couldn’t be easier. It also looks great in my bar. It’s small, light and has a nice modern look that fits into my bar area.

I already have plans to give a few Fizzics out as gifts to my most hard-core beer friends, it’s perfect and unexpected. I’ll be giving this with a few bombers of hard to find beer and my beer nerd friends will flip (and Father’s Day is coming up!!).

If you have any questions about my experience with it, please reach out!

I also have a recipe for you, an appetizer that is perfect with that beer you brought back from your trip. I’ve long had an issue with wrapping scallops in bacon, the bacon takes much longer to fully cook than the scallops (I need crispy bacon) and using prosciutto solves my issues. Not only does it not technically need to be cooked, but it also crisps much faster.

Did you know most store-bought scallops are almost always soaked in a milky phosphate liquid to help extend their shelf life? A brine is necessary for washing the phosphates out of most store-bought scallops. If you don’t brine, the milky solution will weep out of your scallops while they cook, preventing a good sear and giving the scallops a soapy taste and rubbery texture.

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Prosciutto Wrapped Beer Brined Scallops with Chimichurri Butter

Course: Appetizer

Servings: 6 people

Ingredients

For the scallops:

1 lbs colossal or jumbo scallops
1 tablespoons salt
12 ounces beer pale lager, pilsner, wheat beer
4 oz thinly sliced prosciutto one slice for each scallop
2 tablespoons (28g) butter

For the IPA Chimichurri Butter:

1 tablespoon (10g) finely chopped shallots
¼ cup (3g) fresh parsley, minced
2 tablespoons (1g) fresh oregano leaves, minced
1 teaspoon (3g) red pepper flakes
1 teaspoons (6g) lemon juice
1 clove garlic grated with a microplane
¼ teaspoon (1.5g) salt
¼ teaspoon (0.5g) black pepper
4 tablespoons (57g) melted butter

Instructions

In a large bowl add the scallops (if buying scallops at a grocery store rather than a high-end seafood purveyor, frozen is often better. Scallops are usually frozen on site and avoid the chemicals used to extend their shelf life).
Sprinkle with salt and cover with beer. Refrigerate for 2 to 12 hours. Rinse and drain. Add to a stack of paper towels to fully dry the scallops.
Add a slice of prosciutto to a flat surface, fold to the width of the scallop. Tightly wrap the scallop. Repeat for all scallops.
Heat the butter in a pan over medium high heat until very hot.
Add the scallops, flat side down, searing until browned before flipping to sear on the other side (if scallops stick to the pan, don’t panic and try to pry them off. They will release from the pan once they sear). Ideally, you want the scallops to be seared on the outside with a slight translucent hint in the center.
Stir together the chimichurri ingredients, making sure the butter is warm and the ingredients are all well combined.
Serve the scallops along side the chimichurri butter.

Salmon in Italian Beer Cream Sauce

Salmon in Italian Beer Cream Sauce is a simple, one pot, crazy delicious way to make dinner in under 20 minutes.

It’s fitting, don’t you think? A dish that’s both easy and transitional, an echo of the month in a way. September is the most transitional of all months, far more than January and closely followed by June. It’s changing of the weather, a realization that not only is the year mostly over but we’re nearing the holidays, it’s back to school, back from vacation, back into sweaters.

I wanted to make a dish using those last gasps of summer produce, but nodded at the chill filling the air. Something quick (because we have enough to so this month amiright?), but something you could serve to guests. Or just something that felt special even for an average Tuesday.

So I did this, and I hope you like it. I LOVED it, and I’ll make it again soon. If you make it, let me know. Getting Instagram notifications that you’ve made, loved and posted one of my recipes makes my day. For real.

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Salmon in Italian Beer Cream Sauce

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

1 lbs salmon, cut into fillets
2 teaspoons salt, divided
2 teaspoon pepper, divided
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 tablespoons butter
1 cup (150g) diced onions
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon cornstarch
¾ cup (6oz) brown ale or Belgian ale (look for a malty beer with a low hop profile)
1 cup (240mL) heavy cream
½ cup (55g) fresh grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
1 teaspoon garlic powder
3 cups (70g) baby spinach leaves
1 large tomato, chopped
1 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped

Instructions

Sprinkle 1 teaspoon each salt and pepper on the salmon.
Heat the oil in a pan over medium high heat. Add the salmon, skin side down, cooking until the skin is crispy, about 5 minutes. Flip and cook on the other side until fish is cooked to desired doneness. Remove from pan, set aside.
Melt the butter in the pan, scraping the brown bits from the bottom.
Stir in the onions, cooking until starting to brown, about 10 minutes. Stir in the garlic, cooking for about 30 seconds.
Sprinkle with cornstarch, stir to combine.
Pour in the beer, scraping to deglaze the pan. Allow to simmer until reduced by about half.
Stir in the cream.
A handful at a time, stir in the cheese. Stir until completely melted before adding more cheese.
Stir in the garlic powder and remaining 1 teaspoon salt and pepper.
Stir in the spinach, cooking until wilted. Remove from heat, stir in the tomatoes and basil.
Return the salmon to the pan, serve warm.

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Crab Tarts with Saison Béarnaise Sauce

Crab Tarts with Saison Béarnaise Sauce

This is because I don’t care. I don’t care that “blogging is dead,” so says everyone who spikes higher on SEO than I do. I don’t care that this is not a very googleable recipe, therefore it won’t earn me much incoming search engine traffic.

Your capacity to care about all the things is limited (also known as: how many fucks you have to give), so I really have to limit what I care about to the things that matter most, and let the rest lie like Chowder Jones in the sunlit patch of my living room.

I do, however, care about you. I care that you like what I’m doing, probably far more than I’d ever let on. I care that you make my recipe, post them on Instagram and tag me.

Honestly, it makes my day (unless your setting are set to private and I can’t see it). I care that you drink beer that you like, and I care a LOT when that beer does heart-melty things like give a portion of the profits from ALL of their beer to nonprofit organizations like The Chicago Women’s Health Center.

Middle Brow, a brewery out of Chicago does this. The remarkable thing, if you don’t know much about beer, is how hard this is.

Craft beer has a remarkably low-profit margin, some newer craft breweries hardly break even. It’s hard enough when you just have to worry about your own bills, but then to factor in giving some of that small margin away; it’s truly philanthropic. They’ve been doing it for years, so clearly they have somethings figured out.

When making these tarts—and freeing myself from all the things I don’t care about—it was easy to focus on the things I do. I did, after all, spend my first few years post-college as a social worker for gang kids.

Once you’re immersed in the world of non-profit-helping-people-organizations, it’s stick with you. And so does this beer. Chicago, you’re lucky to call this place a local spot.

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Crab Tarts with Saison Béarnaise Sauce

Ingredients

For the tarts:

1 sheet puff pastry
2 tablespoons olive oil
8 oz lump crabmeat
1 ear of corn, grilled or roasted, kernels cut off
½ of 1 large red bell pepper, small chopped
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons minced green onions (plus additional for garnish)
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper

For the sauce:

¼ cup minced shallots
¼ cup white wine vinegar
¼ cup pilsner or wheat beer
2 tablespoons chopped fresh tarragon
3 large egg yolks
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
½ cup unsalted butter

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400°F.
Roll the puff pastry out on a lightly floured surface. Cut into 12 circles, each about 3 inches across.
Add to a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Brush with olive oil, pierce all over with a fork.
Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven. While still warm, use the back of a small, round, spoon (like a tablespoon) to press the center in to create a hole.
In a bowl stir together the crab, bell pepper, corn kernels, lemon juice, green onions, salt and pepper.
Plate the tart crusts, fill with the crab mixture.
In a small pot stir together the shallots, vinegar, beer, and tarragon. Bring to a boil, cooking until reduced by half, about 8 minutes, remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.
In small food processor or blender, add the yolks, salt, and pepper. While the processor is running, slowly add the vinegar reduction and melted butter, process until thickened (if you’re having a hard time getting the sauce to thicken, add to a sauce pan, heat slightly until thickened).
Drizzle the tarts with Bearnaise sauce, sprinkle with green onions, serve.

Notes

*To make ahead: make the tart crust, store in an airtight container. Make filing, store in a separate container. Make the sauce, store in an airtight container. To serve: reheat the sauce in the top of a double boiler, add 1 tablespoon beer, whisk until warmed. Plate the tarts, fill with crab mixture, top with sauce and serve!

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Day Two on the BC Ale Trail and Garlic Sriracha Beer Steamed Mussels

Garlic Sriracha Beer Steamed Mussels

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of BC Ale Trail and Tourism New West, Discover Surrey and Tourism Delta. All opinions and text are mine.

TO COME

Day two began how all days should begin: with fried chicken. River Market in New West is a destination all on it’s own. Fresh bread, craft coffee, homemade soap, produce, and restaurants. It’s a lovely place to get lost in. I impatiently waited outside the doors of Freebird Chicken Shack to get my hands on some of the fried chicken I’d been hearing so much about, and it didn’t disappoint.

My suggestions: Turmeric Fried Chicken, and Hot & Sour Fried Chicken Skin

Of course, after that I need a beer. I traveled a few miles to Central City Brewery, one of the most well distributed craft breweries in Canada. With award winning beer and spirits, it’s not hard to see why.

My suggestions: Sour No. 2 Sour Kriek

The afternoon was spent in one of the more unexpected locations: Crescent Beach, a charming little beach town that felt equal parts far away destination and small town quaint. I lingered over oysters, fish & chips, and beer at Hooked Fish Bar, then spent a few hours paddling around the inlet on a stand up paddleboard. An afternoon that went by too quickly and left a beautiful sun soaked memory.

The trip ended in the perfect way, a pot of garlic beer mussels and one of my favorite beers from Four Winds Brewing at Hawthorne Beer Market, a place I could have stayed for hours. The beer list was extensive, the food was fantastic, and the service was outstanding. It’s already bookmarked for my next trip up there. And there will definitely be a next trip.

Coming home I had to recreate the recipe, full of garlic, heat and beer, it was impossible to stop thinking about.

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Garlic Sriracha Beer Steamed Mussels

Yield: 2 to 4 servings

Ingredients

½ cup unsalted butter
5 cloves garlic, smashed
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon sriracha
1 cup pale ale
½ cup chicken broth
1 lbs live mussels, cleaned, beards removed
¼ cup chopped fresh Italian parsley
Bread for serving

Instructions

In a large pot or deep skillet add the butter and cook until melted.
Stir in the garlic, salt, paprika, sriracha, beer and chicken broth, stir to combine, bring to a low simmer.
Add the mussels, cover and allow to cook until mussels have opened, about 5 minutes.
Discard any that didn't open. Sprinkle the parsley over the pan.
Serve with crusty bread.

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Grilled Garlic Beer Butter Lobster

Grilled Garlic Beer Butter Lobster

I needed a code word, a signal that it was too much. It was devised as a way to tell me that I needed to knock it down a few pegs. When I drink, I get a little less reserved and a little (a lot) more inappropriate.

The people in my life needed a code word to let me know that I needed to pull it back. The code is: “Mississippi.” Which spawned the term “Mississippied” as in: “Jackie, you got Mississippied four times last night!”

I tell you this because although I seem a bit reserved on this platform, it’s not because I don’t want to spill my guts to you. I do, but it should only take place in an arena where it’s just between us, where it won’t be immortalized in digital print.

A venue where you can Mississippi me if it gets to be too much.

Last week was a reminder to me that I can do that, if we ever do meet for pints at a pub. After a post that was uncharacteristically vulnerable, I had so many of you reach out, ask if I was OK, tell me that you’d felt the same way from time to time.

So thank you. Thank you for reading what I write, responding to it, and reaching out when you have feelings too.

As a thank you, I made you some grilled lobster, it’s one of my favorite dishes to make for friends.

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Grilled Garlic Beer Butter Lobster

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

½ cup unsalted butter
4 large cloves garlic, smashed
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup IPA or pale ale beer
4 lobster tails (thawed, if frozen)

Instructions

Preheat the grill to medium high.
Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the garlic, salt, and beer. Turn off heat and allow to steep for ten minutes.
Cut the lobster tails in half, lengthwise. Clean out any vein that may still be there.
Place the lobster tails in the pot of butter for ten minutes, allowing to soak in the butter.
Remove from butter (reserve butter).
Place lobster tails on the grill, cut side down, close the lid. Cook until the tails turn bright red and the flesh has turned white, about five minutes. Turn the tails over, baste with the butter mixture.
Remove from the grill, serve immediately.

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Beer Battered Cod Po’ Boy Sliders

Beer Battered Cod Po’ Boy Sliders

Island beer feels different.

The patio is always full of people who don’t just know the beer, they know the story. They know the owners, the jobs they held before the lure of the frustration of brewing on a tiny system in the middle of an ocean pulled them into an uncommon life. The beer is always brewed on a system that looks to be just a tick bigger than a home brew system, and it’s running around the clock.

This weekend, on a small island, I stumbled upon Island beer. True to form, the patio was full of the people who run the line between patron and family. The system was on display behind the counter, in a stage between cleaning and brewing, and the beer was beautiful. Earlier this year I was on a tiny Island in the caribbean and found the same sort of beer-island-family that welcomes you in, serves you beer and wants to know your story.

Island beer is different. It doesn’t want to take over the world. It doesn’t seek a buy-out. It doesn’t concern itself with mass distribution. It’s a bit like life on the island. There is always a story of hard it was the get even that small system onto the island, a bigger one is just a far reaching fantasy. Island beer wants to be there for the locals, a backdrop to the stories they tell and the life they lead. It’s consistent, and memorable. It’s worth seeking out, pulling up a seat in the tap room and asking the owners to tell you about how they got started. You might find yourself being treated like part of the family before the end of the night.

Next time you’re on an island, look for the beer. Then find out the story.

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Beer Battered Cod Po’ Boy Sliders

Yield: 12-14 sliders

Ingredients

1 lbs cod (or similar white fish)
1 ½ teaspoon salt (9g)
½ cup (105g) buttermilk
1 cup (95g) pale ale or pilsner
½ cup (95g) fine corn meal
½ cup (60g) flour
2 teaspoon (6g) Creole seasoning
oil for frying (canola, safflower, or peanut work well)
1 cup (240g) sour cream
1 tablespoon (15g) sriracha red chili sauce
1 long French baguette, cut into 3 inch slices, split to resemble buns
2 cups baby arugula
2 large tomatoes, sliced

Instructions

Cut the fish into 1-inch strips, sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt.
In a medium bowl stir together the buttermilk and beer. Add the fish to the bowl, making sure all fish is submerged. Allow to sit for ten minutes while you prep the dredge.
In a separate bowl stir together the cornmeal, flour, creole seasoning, and remaining ½ teaspoon salt.
Add 3 to 4 inches of oil in a pot. Clip a deep fry thermometer onto the side. Heat the oil to 350F, adjusting heat to maintain that temperature.
A few at a time, remove the fish strips from the buttermilk, allowing the excess to drip off. Add fish to the cornmeal dredge, tossing until well coated. Add to the oil, frying until golden, about 4 minutes. Remove from oil and allow to drain on a wire rack.
In a small bowl stir together the sour cream, and sriracha.
Spread the sour cream on the insides of the sliced baguette. Fill with a few pieces of fish, arugula and sliced tomato. Serve immediately.

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Beer Steamer Clam Linguini

15 Minute Dinner: Beer Steamer Clam Linguini

I’m on a layover in Salt Lake right now, in an airport bar resisting the urge to hair-of-the-dog my way out of sleep deprivation and a small sprinkling of a hangover. I’m going to tell you something that will make you think I’m crazy, but I already rolled that dice when I told about the time I decided to be a vacuum salesman and that time I assaulted a waiter in Spain: I like layovers. I like the energy, this mix of people, the contentment of knowing there isn’t a lot expected of me at this moment, the brief pause in a day otherwise filled with travel, the calm before I get back home and jump back into my life. I look at the faces of the other travelers and wonder if we’d have been friends if we’d ever really met. I wonder if we’ve ever been in the same place before this, or if we ever will again.

I made a decision two years ago—in the midst of the biggest personal crisis of my life— to figure out how to enjoy my time instead of “kill time”. The last thing I need to do is go around killin’ the moments of my life that don’t please me as much as I’d hoped, and then later complain when it goes by too fast. Maybe all moments aren’t amazing, or even traditionally enjoyable, but as my theory goes: if you can figure out how to enjoy a layover then just maybe those great moments will be even better. Maybe not. But at least I’m not just going’ around killing off moments in the prime of my life.

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Beer Steamer Clam Linguini

Total Time: 15 minutes

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

¼ cup (56g) unsalted butter
1 shallot, chopped
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 teaspoon (1g) crushed red pepper
1 cup (80z) wheat beer
1 lbs clams (Little Neck or Manila)
1 lbs linguini pasta
¼ cup chopped Italian parsley

Instructions

Melt the butter in a large saucepan with a lid.
Add the shallots, cooking until just starting to brown, about 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic and the red pepper.
Stir in the beer, bring to a simmer over medium heat. Add the clams, cover and cook until most of the clams have opened, about 6 minutes. Discard any clams that have not opened.
If using dried pasta, cook until just before al dente, about 6 minutes. Add to the clam pan, stirring until combined, cover and cook until cooked through.
If using fresh pasta, add the pasta directly into the clam pan without par cooking, cover and cook until pasta is cooked, about 4 minutes.
Plate the pasta, sprinkle with parsley.

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Bacon Beer Shrimp with Beer Cheese Grits

Bacon Beer Shrimp with Beer Cheese Grits

Every few months I find myself here.

In a brewery, doing my best to learn how to turn what some see as an ugly industrial space with bad lighting into beautiful photos. Mostly, I’m a self-taught photographer. I took classes, read books, watched a decades worth of YouTube videos, sat in online workshops, and even joined an online photo mentorship group. But I always feel behind, always feel like I’m not quite there.

I’ve often wondered if I’ll ever be where I want, if “arriving” in a creative sense even exists. I’ve worried that I’ll never be able to give people the images I want to shoot. But I’ve never once thought about giving up. Not once.

It’s easy to get pulled into the undertow of comparison. It’s easy to see more clearly how far we have to go rather than the long road we’ve already traveled. In those moments I tell myself, “Keep your head down and keep going.” It works. It moves me forward. I get closer all the time to the place I want to be.

At the end of the day, that’s all we have. We have the ability to move forward, to drive closer to the life we want and the people we want to be. Perfection is a dangerous myth that robs us of contentment. Let’s just be able to sit here, in the gratitude that we are moving forward.

Let’s take a few minutes each week, grab a beer, grab some food, and just be content. Harder than it sounds, but we can do. Even if we need a few beers first.

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Bacon Beer Shrimp with Beer Cheese Grits

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

For the grits:

12 ounces wheat beer
2 cups water (plus additional)
1 cup yellow grits (not instant)
1 ½ cups grated sharp cheddar
2 tbs unsalted butter
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper

For the shrimp:

4 strips thick cut bacon, chopped
2 tbs unsalted butter
1 lbs raw shrimp, peeled and deveined
½ tsp salt
½ tsp black pepper
¼ tsp smoked paprika
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp chili powder
¼ cup wheat beer
2 tbs chopped chives

Instructions

In a large pot over medium heat add the beer and 2 cups of warm water. Bring to a simmer and slowly add the grits. Cook over a low simmer, stirring occasionally, until thick and tender. Add water ¼ cup at a time when the grits begin to dry out.
Once the grits are cooked stir in the cheddar, butter, cream, salt and pepper.
Cook the bacon in a skillet over medium heat (don’t turn the heat too high, medium heat will render more fat than high heat) until the bacon is crispy. Remove the bacon, set aside. Pour off all the bacon fat except about 1 tablespoon. Return pan to heat, melt the butter in the skillet.
Add the shrimp and spices, toss to coat. Pour in the beer, cooking until shrimp are cooked through, about 5 minutes.
Add the grits to serving bowls, top with shrimp, bacon and chives.

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Coconut Pale Ale Curry Cod

This, in one form or another, is my go-to dinner. It’s a pantry recipe and one of the main reasons I always have coconut milk on hand. I’ve made it with every imaginable protein, and even mushrooms when I’m the mood to only consume plants. I’ve replaced the chard with spinach, arugula, basil and even cilantro and it holds up. It’s reliable and filling. It’s a way to make dinner when I don’t have the energy to think. I can double the shallots or the curry paste and it still gives me what I want. I can add tomatoes or jalapeños and I still love it. I can make a triple batch and have it for next three days and It’s still a favorite.

Sometimes, in the midst of trying to give you a recipe that will be clink-inducing-share-worthy I forget that you also need the solid standby recipes that won’t let you down. The culinary equivalent of the faded Levis that you’ve been wearing since high school and that friend that always drives you to the airport even if it’s 5 am. So here it is, my faded-Levis-airport-guy recipe.

I hope you love it as much as I do.

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Coconut Pale Ale Curry Cod

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

1 tbs olive oil
1 shallot, chopped (1/4 cup)
2 cloves garlic, minced
3/4 cup pale ale
1 (15 wt oz) can coconut milk (full fat)
1 tsp red curry paste
1 teaspoons fish sauce
1 tsp sea salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 Thai green chile, chopped (optional)
1 to 2 lbs black cod, cut into 4 fillets
1 cups Swiss chard, rough chopped
rice for serving

Instructions

In a large, deep skillet with a lid heat the olive oil over medium high heat. Add the shallots,
cooking until softened and slightly browned, about 5 minutes.
Stir in the garlic until fragrant, about 30 seconds, stir in the beer.
Add coconut milk, curry paste, fish sauce, salt, pepper, and chile (if using) simmer until slightly reduced, about 10 minutes.
Add the Cod fillets into the pan, reduce heat to low, cover tightly with a lid and simmer until
cooked through and fish flakes easily with a fork, about 10 minutes. Stir in the chard until wilted, about 1 minute.
Serve in bowls over rice.

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Coconut Beer Steamer Clam Chowder

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 arms around him, pinning his arms to his sides. Their tandem screams, dulled by the shock that had numbed my brain, tumbled together like puppies rolling down a hill…

I have these narratives rolling around inside me, fighting to get to the surface. They wake me up at night. Sentences form out of nowhere that take me back to a forgotten time and place.

Mostly, it’s repressed memories from my days in Hollywood, and the times I worked with gang members in South Central Los Angeles. It’s parts, mostly, of experiences I can’t remember entirely. Feelings searching for words. But the thing is, experiences are made up of an amalgamation of your senses. It’s a big ball of touch, smell, taste, sight, and sound. Words don’t fit well in that sensation cocktail. Even when the words leave me, I know they are so small, so inadequate. But it’s all I have. It has me, more than I have it. I’ll never claim that editing and technical writing is my calling in life, it’s always been a struggle. But creative expressions via words and images has sucked me into it’s undertow.

So, please. Give me a pass when the verbs and tenses don’t stand in a perfect line, and typos come en masse. I’m trying to turn feelings into words, and there is only one part of that I can do at a time.

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Coconut Beer Steamer Clam Chowder

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

4 wt oz (114g) pancetta, diced
1 large (43g) shallot, diced
1 large (110g) carrot, diced
3 tbs (22g) flour
1 cup (236g) wheat beer
1 ½ cup (360 mL) chicken broth
13.5 fl oz (400 mL) coconut milk
½ tsp (4g) salt
½ tsp (1.3g) black pepper
½ tsp (1.3g) garlic powder
½ tsp (1.3g) smoked paprika
3 medium sized (300g) red potatoes, diced
1 lbs manila clams
2 cups (44g) sliced Swiss chard (or spinach)

Instructions

Add the pancetta to a large pot or Dutch oven (add pancetta to a cold pan, it will render better than if you add it to a hot pan). Cook over medium high heat until crispy, remove with a slotted spoon.
Pour off about half of the fat in the pot, leaving about 2 tablespoons.
Return to medium heat, add the shallots and carrots, cooking until very soft and slightly caramelized, about 15 minutes (if the pan dries too much, add a bit of olive oil).
Sprinkle flour on top, whisking until the flour turns slightly brown.
Add the beer, scraping to deglaze the bottom of the pot.
Stir in the broth, coconut milk, potatoes, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, smoked paprika and red potatoes. Simmer until slightly thickened and potatoes have softened, about 15 minutes.
Reduce heat to low, add the clams and chard, cover and allow to cook for 6 minutes. Discard any clams that have not opened. Serve immediately.

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Grilled Chili Lime Beer Shrimp

I was at a brewery in Southern California early last year and a brewer handed me a small cup of warm wort to sample from a batch he was in the middle of brewing. “What is it?” I asked. He shrugged.

“It was a bunch of leftover bits from bags and batches. I just decided to brew something with it. Maybe a Hoppy Brown Porter? or…an India Chocolate Ale..with… Never mind. I have no idea.”

Unlike wine, which is often labeled for the grapes that produced it, beer is hard to name. Sure, there are certain designations that make it easy to classify some brews, but there is plenty of beer that doesn’t fit any category. This isn’t a problem as much as it’s an opportunity. It’s evidence that beer is evolving at a pace so rapid, categories have a hard time keeping up.

In 1987 the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) had just 12 categories in which to award medals. In 2015, there was 92, many with subcategories. It’s a spectacular example of the evolution of beer.

For this recipe, I used a beer with a designation that’s only been recognized for the past handful of years: the Black IPA. Also called a Cascading Dark Ale or American Black Ale, it’s a hybrid of different styles. It has the looks of a porter with the spirit of an IPA. It has a bit of the roasty characters of a darker beer, but tastes light and hoppy like an IPA. Should you try it? Absolutely. Will you love it? Who knows, but at least you’ll have tried it. That’s part of the adventure of beer.

A few to try:

Bear Republic // Black Racer

Deschutes // Hop in the Dark

21st Amendment // Back in Black

Southern Tier // Iniquity

Founders Inspired // Artist Black IPA

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Grilled Chili Lime Beer Shrimp

Ingredients

¼ tsp cayenne pepper
½ tsp cumin
1 tsp smoked paprika
2 tsp salt
2 tsp black pepper
2 tsp chili powder
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp honey
½ tsp fresh garlic, grated with a microplane
2 tbs fresh lime juice
½ cup beer (black IPA, or hoppy red ale will work great)
1 lbs raw shrimp
¼ cup chopped cilantro

Instructions

In small bowl add the cayenne pepper, cumin, paprika, salt, pepper, chili, garlic powder, honey, garlic, lime juice and beer.
Add the shrimp to a large re-sealable plastic bag, pour the marinade over the shrimp. Chill and allow to marinate for 1 hour and up to 24.
Preheat the grill to medium high.
Skewer the shrimp on metal or pre-soaked wooden skewers.
Grill until cooked through, about 2 minutes per side, don’t over cook.
Sprinkle with cilantro.

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Honey Balsamic Beer Glazed Shrimp Skewers

Honey Balsamic Beer Glazed Shrimp Skewers

“What’s your favorite beer?”

It’s a question get asked all the time. The problem is, it’s a trap. There is no right answer. If I talk about well-distributed beers I love, “Black Butte Porter is a great beer,” or “Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar is one of my favorite brown ales,” I’ve disappointed people looking for insider knowledge.

If I talk about the whales (hard to find beers), “Pliny is a great beer, but so is Heady Topper,” people see me as a snob who’s just following the craft beer sheep pack. If I mention a beer they have never heard of, “Wow, Blitz Pack from Huminstat Brewing is amazing,” they have no frame of reference, maybe it’s a terrible beer, or maybe I just made it up (I did).

The real issue is that I don’t have an answer, and it’s mostly a bullshit question. I don’t have a favorite food either, it changes with my mood and what I feel like eating that day. My favorite beer does the same, and I like beer that lives in harmony with the food on my plate.

When I go to a beer bar I ask the bartender what he drinks, or if there is anything exciting on tap right now. Anything special release? Anything new? There are days when I just want a stout, and during hop harvest season I want to drink all the fresh hopped beers I can find.

If I go to a brewery that specializes in a specific style, give me one of those. Maybe it’s because I’m not picky, I’m a very go-with-the-flow person. Or maybe I just believe in adventure over comfort. Or maybe I just love all the beer.

So the answer to the question, “What’s your favorite beer?” is most likely, “Whatever you want to serve me.”

Because you buy the beer, and I’ll make the food. I’ll drink what you bring, and you’ll eat what I make.

Deal?

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Honey Balsamic Beer Glazed Shrimp Skewers

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

½ cup stout or porter beer
½ cup honey
¼ cup balsamic vinegar
1/2 tsp red chili sauce (such as sriracha)
½ tsp garlic powder
¼ tsp ground ginger
1 lbs raw shrimp, shell and vein removed
salt
2 tbs chopped green onions or chives

Instructions

Preheat grill to medium high.
In a large pot over high heat add the beer, honey, vinegar, chili sauce, garlic powder, and ginger. Bring to a boil. Stirring occasionally, boil until bubbles have mostly subsided and turned glossy and the mixture has thickened, about ten minutes.
Thread the shrimp onto metal or pre-soaked wooden skewers, sprinkle with salt, brush with glaze.
Cook on the grill until cooked through and glaze has slightly caramelized, about 2 minutes per side. Sprinkle with chopped green onions prior to serving.

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Beer Battered Fish Tacos with Pomegranate Guacamole

Beer Battered Fish Tacos with Pomegranate Guacamole

The first time I had fish tacos I was somewhere off the coast of Mexico. I was 17, sunburned and a little confused. After a few crumbled pesos changed hands I was hastily pushed onto a boat, clung to an orange vest for about twenty minutes and gratefully exited the floating death trap onto the beach of what looked like an uninhabited country.

A small woman with sun-leathered featured stood watch near a metal grate set over a hole in the ground. From the beach I could see the flames jumping up to lick the shrimp she was tending. I didn’t say a word, hunger pushing towards the wooden bench in the designated eating area. The other castaways that had ended up on the boat with me followed suit.

The “tour” guide shoved a Corona into one of my hands, not bothering to inquire if I wanted it, and motioned to a bowl of pickled radishes and carrots on the table. A few minutes later a wooden plated piled high with grilled shrimp was set in the middle of the rickety plastic table, along with a stack of homemade corn tortillas, a bowl of diced onions, a bit of cilantro and modified ketchup bottled that had been reused as a homemade hot sauce dispenser.

I didn’t care that the health department in the US would have had a heart attack looking at this place, I didn’t care that there was clearly no running water, gloves or hand washing options. I didn’t care that I had no idea where the shrimp came from. I was starving.

I chugged my sub-par beer, and ate my weight in beer battered fish tacos.. They were amazing. The hot sauce was the best I’ve ever had, and the tortillas were perfect. Since then, I want my tacos simple. Homemade tortillas, some diced onions, maybe some hot sauce or guacamole. No lettuce. No cheese. No sour cream. No ground beef.

But I’ll put pomegranate on anything and beer, beer is always a must.

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Beer Battered Fish Tacos with Pomegranate Guacamole

Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients

For the tortillas:

2 cup masa harina (corn flour)
½ tsp salt
1/3 cup olive oil
1 cup room temperature beer

For the Guacamole:

2 large avocados
juice from one lime
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp chili powder
½ tsp salt
1/3 cup pomegranate seeds
¼ cup cilantro, chopped (plus additional for tacos)
¼ cup red onion, chopped (plus additional for tacos)

For the fish:

1 cup flour
¼ tsp salt
1 large egg
1 cup pale ale
Oil for frying
1 pound cod, cut into 3 inch strips

Instructions

Make the tortillas:

In a large bowl, add the masa and the salt, stir to combine.
Add the beer and oil, stir to combine. If the dough is too dry to hold together, add additional beer or water. If it is too wet, add more Masa. (It should be the consistency of soft Play-Doh)
Form into balls a bit larger than golf balls.
Prepare a tortillas press by wrapping in plastic wrap or covering with parchment paper (you can place tortilla ball between two sheets of parchment and use a rolling pin). Place one ball in the center.
Press, rotate and press again until thin.
Heat a griddle (or cast iron skillet) to a medium high heat (about 350 for electric griddles).
Cook until slightly brown on the bottom (about 30 seconds to a minute) flip and cook on the other side. Don’t overcook.

Make the guacamole:

Add the flesh of the avocado, lime juice, garlic powder, chili powder and salt to a bowl, smash until well combined. Stir in the pomegranate seeds, cilantro and red onions.

Make the fish:

In a medium bowl add the flour and salt. Make a well in the center, add the egg and beer. Stir with a fork until just combined.
Heat about 2 to 3inches of oil in a pot over medium high heat. Bring to 350 degrees using a deep fry thermometer, adjust heat to maintain that temperature.
One at a time dip the fish strips into the batter until well coated. Add to the oil, fry until golden brown on all sides.
Fill the tortillas with fish, guacamole and sprinkle with onions and cilantro.

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Beer Crab Cake Balls

Beer Crab Cake Balls, incredibly delicious and adictive. Perfect for game day!

We can’t over think this one. We wont.

Because if we did we would think about deep-frying, get nervous about it, wonder if people actually like crab and deep fried things as much as we do, worry about the friend who pretends to be gluten free and the guy who’s a vegetarian. And then we’d miss out on the best appetizer we’ve ever made for a football party. And that would be horrible. An actual real life First World tragedy.

Because this needs to be made for the Super Bowl. It’s crab, which can be proudly claimed with strong possession by both Seattle and New England. And so can great beer. And apparently great football teams. And amazing women (Just trust me). It’s a dish that doesn’t take sides, but it knows who’s going to win. It’s the city with the best beer. And the best women. Obviously.

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Beer Crab Cake Balls

Yield: 12 to 16

Ingredients

1 cup Panko bread crumbs
½ cup flour
1 ½ tsp Old Bay seasoning
½ tsp baking powder
pinch cayenne
½ cup pale ale
¼ cup green onion, chopped
1 large egg + one yolk
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 teaspoon brown mustard
2 tsp hot sauce (such as tapatio)
1 pound lump crab meat, drained well
peanut or canola oil for frying

Instructions

Stir together the panko, flour, old bay, baking powder and cayenne in a large bowl.
Add the beer, green onions, eggs and yolk, sour cream, mustard, and hot sauce, stir until combined.
Gently fold in crab meat.
Cover and chill for 30 minutes.
Prepare the oil by adding about 3 inches of oil to a pot over high heat. Add a deep fry thermometer to the side, adjusting heat to keep oil at 350 degrees.
Using a cookie scoop, roll batter into balls about the size of golf balls.
Deep fry until golden brown, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack set over a baking sheet until drained, about 1 minute.

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Garlic Beer Butter Cod with Pale Ale Romesco

Garlic Beer Butter Cod with Pale Ale Romesco. So easy and SO good. The Romesco is insanely amazing.

Cod needs to be made with butter. It needs the beautiful richness to pull itself up through the firm flesh of this gorgeous fish and have it’s way with the flavors. Cod needs to be seduced by the warm golden pool that’s melted beneath it. Cod’s underrated, overlooked as people reach past these thick white filets to grab a brilliantly pink salmon. The texture is just as good and the flavor is better, it’s more accessible, it makes you want another helping, even when you’ve finished the entire pan. A flavor mellow enough to tease you into begging for more, but strong enough to stand up to a bold romesco. Romesco is the touch that runs the perfect line between rough and gentle. It’s bold, warms, spicy, delicious and demands to be remembered in an effortless-cool sort of way. These two make the perfect partners, add in a beer and some good company and you never know where the night will take you.

Garlic Beer Butter Cod with Pale Ale Romesco

Ingredients

Romesco Sauce:

2/3 cup (2.8 wt oz) sliced almonds
1 large bell pepper, roasted (from a jar is fine)
1 cloves garlic, smashed
6 wt oz tomato puree
2 tbs chopped Italian parsley
3 tbs pale ale
1 tsp red pepper flakes
½ tsp smoked paprika
½ tsp sea salt
½ tsp black pepper
¼ cup olive oil

For the Cod:

4 cod filets
salt and pepper
6 tbs unsalted butter
5 cloves garlic, smashed
2 tbs pale ale

Directions

Put the almonds in a pan over medium high heat. Pull the pan back and forth across the burner to toss the almonds until the almonds have lightly toasted, about 3 minutes (keep a close eye, they burn quickly).
Add the almonds, red pepper, garlic, tomato puree, parsley, beer, red pepper flakes, smoked paprika salt and pepper to a food processor. Process for about one minute, then slowly add the olive oil until well combined.
Dry the cod well then salt and pepper on each side.
Heat the butter over medium heat until melted, add the garlic and beer, stirring until slightly reduced and thickened (about 5 minutes) making sure to the heat isn’t too high or the garlic will burn.
Add the cod, cooking on each side until cod is cooked through, about 3 minutes per side.
Plate the fish with some of the beer butter drizzled around the fish.
Top each filet with 2 to 3 tablespoons of Romesco sauce.

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Puff Pastry Shrimp Beer Cheese Sweet Chili Bites & Why I Hate Santa

Puff Pastry Shrimp Beer Cheese Sweet Chili Bites. Only 10 minutes prep!

Right out of college I got a job working with gang kids in South Central Los Angeles, like this one and this one. I was prepared to be afraid of them, bracing myself to be on the defense, even packing pepper spray in my purse. I wasn’t prepared to fall in love with them. I worked with kids as young as 5, and as old as 19, all either on probation or in foster care, sometimes both. To this day, some of the kids I met during that time are the smartest, most kind hearted, motivated kids I’ve ever met.

The first year I worked at a group home in a particularly rough part of Hollywood, I tried to make a big deal out of Christmas in a very middle American ignorant white girl kind of way. Let’s decorate the tree! Let’s make Christmas cookies! When I found out that the very small budget the organization had to cover Christmas gifts wasn’t enough to get the kids more than one small gift each, I ran around getting donations. Kids need presents.

To my WASPY surprise this wasn’t well received. The kids, all boys between the ages of 12 and 17, were mostly kind about it, although visibly annoyed. I wanted to know why, what where the traditions they grew up with, what did they miss? A few days before Christmas one of the younger kid, Jamal, offered to help me wrap some of the gifts, so I asked him.

He sighed, not sure how to proceed.

“Is this another one of my white girl questions that you guys tease me about?”

He laughed, “Nah, it’s just…a lot of us don’t got good memories of Christmas. It’s not really our thing. Some kids do. But most don’t.”

He told me he didn’t get presents when he was little because they either couldn’t afford them or his mom was too drunk to buy any. For years he figured that it was because he was bad, that’s the story right? Santa brings presents to good kids, bad kids don’t get any. He also told me a story about waking up on Christmas morning when he was 5, spending it alone because his mom was on a bender. He sat in his living room hoping that Santa wasn’t real. Santa’s lack of existence was comforting, rather than the idea that he was alone and present-less because he was bad. It hit me how terrible the Santa story is for kids that don’t get gifts. My world opened up a bit that day, being taught life lessons by a 12-year-old will do that to you. I’ll never forget his face, so matter of fact, not the tears or grief you’d expect.

I can’t remember what I got for Christmas that year. In fact, I’d be hard pressed to name a dozen gifts I’ve been given over the years. But I’ll never forget Jamal and I hope he never has to spend Christmas alone again.

Puff Pastry Shrimp Beer Cheese Sweet Chili Bites

Ingredients

8 wt oz cream cheese
2 tbs cornstarch
¼ cup pale ale
½ cup mozzarella, shredded
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp salt
1 sheet puff pastry, thawed
16 jump shrimp, raw, de-veined, shelled
¼ cup honey
1 tbs warm pale ale
1 tsp sriracha
1 tsp red chili flake
3 tbs cilantro, chopped

Directions

Preheat the oven to 375.
In a blender or food processor add the cream cheese, cornstarch, ¼ cup pale ale, mozzarella, garlic powder, and salt. Process until well combined
Roll the puff pastry out on a lightly floured surface.
Place 1 tablespoon rounds of cheese about one inch apart for a total of 16 evenly spaced mounds of cheese mixture.
Top each mound of cheese with a raw shrimp. Cut the dough with a sharp knife between each shrimp/cheese mound.
Place the squares on a baking sheet.
Bake at 375 for 15 minutes or until puff pastry is golden brown.
In a small bowl combine the honey, warm pale ale, sriracha, and chili flake.
Plate the shrimp bites, drizzle with chili sauce, sprinkle with cilantro.

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