Let’s talk about sweet potatoes, shall we? Of course we shall. It’s been a while since we’ve had any root vegetable related banter. I didn’t have sweet potatoes until I was a grown-up. A literal grown-ass human. This is a true fact. I did not grow up in a house where any orange vegetables, roots… Read More
Super Soft Butter and Beer 1 hour Dinner Rolls Are you ready? Take a deep breath because you don’t have a choice, the holidays and all that goes with them, are upon us. Let’s take a second to inventory this upcoming Q4 on a personal level, shall we? Of course we should, we like doing… Read More
Beer and Brown Sugar Sweet Potatoes, an easy one pot dish that tastes like doughnuts and beer! We all like to tell the same lie to each other when we’re preparing for Thanksgiving. We pretend like the turkey is the hard part. It’s not, it’s just the main part. But, in reality, it’s pretty easy.… Read More
Summer IPA Panzanella Salad. It’s a salad with bread! It’s the best. SO good! This is my way of forcing the situation. Seattle hasn’t been kind to me this winter, the rain has been abundant, as has the power outages and the snow fall. Luckily, I’ve been able to escape to Panama and Kona, but… Read More
Salt Roasted Mini Potatoes with Garlic Sage Beer Butter. The most delicious appetizer you can make with just ten minutes prep! I have a confession to make. Or possibly more of a reminder. It occurred to me, when I was posting this on instagram, that if you just stumbled upon this weird life that I… Read More
Garlic Parmesan Skillet Beer Potatoes “If you do it right, you’ll life several lifetimes before you’re done.” She was 80-years-old, only frail on the outside, and telling me about the life she lived decades ago. One where she was a young activist living in 1960’s San Francisco. That life, she said, was one that still… Read More
Bacon and Beer Bread Stuffing As biased as I am, I can pretty solidly affirm that beer needs to be your adult beverage of choice for Thanksgiving. The flavors of your fall Holiday table will run around much better with the malt, spices, and carbonation that beer has to offer than any other alcoholic concoction.… Read More
Grilled Street Corn with IPA Chipotle Cream + What’s The Deal With Gluten Free Beer? Beer’s main objective is to taste great. To gratify an urge, quell a thirst, satisfy the drinker with a balance of it’s necessary ingredients: water, hops, malt and yeast (and possibly a few not as necessary ingredients). But let’s say… Read More
Beer Bacon and Blue Cheese Potato Salad I have a lot of great childhood memories that peripherally involve potato salad. None of those, however, involve eating it. Until I was a grown-up I thought of potato salad as this boiled, mayonnaised, mustard, mess that resided in plastic tubs at the grocery store. Someone was always… Read More
Honey Stout Glazed Bacon Wrapped Asparagus Sometimes, I wonder how long it’ll last. I sat at dinner a few weeks ago, with someone who’s quickly become a great friend, and talked about the rough years we’ve had, similar in ways, and how we keep that hurtful past close to the vest. How those years help… Read More
Bacon and Beer Cheese Brussels Sprout Gratin I judged a beer competition last year with the primary assignment of the IPA category. A fantastic assignment under normal circumstances but this day, there were some logistical issues. Pound for pound I was the smallest judge and this was the biggest category, 35 beers in total, all… Read More
Sriracha Beer Mac N Cheese (15-minutes Stove Top) These photos were taken at the beginning of a power outage that lasted two days. Luckily, the light from my window was filtering through breaking storm clouds in an eerie but beautiful way that made it possible to shoot the macaroni I’d finish making by candlelight. It also… Read More
Chipotle White Ale Cranberry Sauce This is a game changer. It’s the “best cranberry sauce ever” for cranberry sauce people, also for I-don’t-like-that-stuff people, and even for “don’t judge, but I like the phallic looking, ridged, gelatinous, canned version, don’t hate” people. It’s smokey, spicy, and has a slight hint of beer. A recipe that… Read More
Beer Is For Everyone: A Party Theme Summer is rapidly hurling towards Fall, and your barefoot in the backyard days are numbered, it’s time to actually host a party instead of just saying, “we should” until the moment passes. It’s that moment. The one that you usually let get away from you, and then wonder… Read More
Roasted Herb Beer Mustard Potato Salad It’s easy to complicate what’s supposed to be simple. Add unnecessary steps, feel the need to suffer on behalf of the task, take things a little further than needed. Potato salad, the quintessential summer side dish needs a simple touch. I roast the potatoes, the process adds a nice… Read More
Beer Brat Cheese Dip A few years ago I is was at dive bar in Germany, perched at a pub table in the center of the room with two other people. We’d ordered beers, nameless, faceless pale lagers brewed close by. Through a thick accent the bartender suggested the sausage plate to go along with the… Read More
When I was hardly out of my teens I sat down at a white formica table in a prominent Jewish deli in New York. Just after I placed my order, pastrami on rye, obviously, the waitress set down a plate of pickles. I hesitated, I hated pickled. The only run ins I’d had with those… 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