Beer Braised Chinese Five Spice Short Ribs over Mimolette Polenta with Red Plum Chimichurri This is going to sound crazy, I know that. But short ribs need stone fruit. They do, it’s a perfect pairing. You don’t believe me? Are you doubting my powers of uncommon food pairings? This is a mistake on your part… Read More
Cream Puffs with Browned Butter Pastry Cream and Espresso Stout Chocolate Sauce So, we’re eating our feelings this week, yes? Yes. Three-day weekends are built for long cooking projects and this week is built for emotional eating. I do this sometimes, bake really complicated things because it gives me a solid win when I need… Read More
Overnight Bourbon Stout Pecan Croissant French Toast with Blood Orange Mascarpone Cream I like when we do this. We make what is obviously a dessert (sshhhh!) and serve it for breakfast because if you add syrup and coffee it’s for breakfast. Don’t worry, I’ve been here before I know the road. It also helps to… Read More
Stout Brown Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookies It’s officially stout weather and stout weather waits for no man. The second the mercury drops below 60°F it’s time for a celebratory stout. I will admit that I’ll drink stouts in the middle of an August heat wave but I don’t expect you to partake. That is… Read More
Thai Meatballs with Stout Peanut Sauce We need to make goals that are easily attainable. At least in equal measure with the difficult ones. For every goal you make that involves weight, money, or extended family, make one that’s easy to keep. You know, for motivation. I have one for you, it’s easy. Your new… Read More
Korean Beer Glazed Short Ribs Do you also get anxiety over the most obscure things? Like when someone asks you what your favorite [random category] is? I don’t like this, it makes me panic and second-guess all my life choices. The truth is, I DON’T have a favorite beer, or vacation spot, or color. But… Read More
Browned Butter Shortbread Salted Beer Caramel and Espresso Chocolate Bars We’re almost there, in the homestretch now. We are close to the end of the strangest year that ever was and we all deserve a treat to celebrate. We made it, we’ve survived, mostly intact, only partially traumatized. Spend the next handful of days letting… Read More
Black Pepper Flank Steak Sandwich with Brie and Beer Caramelized Onion Jam The times has come to make fancy sandwiches. Because we are SO sick of the same rotation of food and take out that we’ve been consuming this year and it’s time to make something we are genuinly excited to eat. The only part… Read More
Chocolate Stout Salted Caramel and Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Pie Apparently, there is quite a bit of disagreement about ice cream-related desserts. So, let’s get into it. Do you call this an ice cream cake or are you right and call it a pie? Do you like a layer of cake in the center… Read More
Bourbon Beer and Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies Apparently, the holidays are here. And by “holidays” I mean an excuse to eat all the things and fatten up my neighbors with cookies and beer. It’s festive. Merry Cookies and Beer Every Day season, it’s a nondenominational holiday that we can all get behind. We need… Read More
Peanut Butter Chocolate Stout Fudge Remember how cute we were in March when quarantine started and we all collectively yelled, “Two weeks?! We are going to be like this for two weeks?!” That was adorable. I’m glad I didn’t know how long we’d be doing this because I don’t know if I could have handled… Read More
Hobo Cookies with Beer Candied Bacon I know, I KNOW! What does “hobo” cookies even mean?! There are cowboy cookies, and compost cookies, and I needed a word that went in that direction. The runners up were Pirate Cookies and Junk Drawer cookies because I can’t just be a normal person and name them “cookies”.… Read More
Chewy Gingerbread Cookies with Maple Stout Cream Cheese Filling When you were a kid, was there a thing you loved in a way that was almost embarrassing? Not pizza, or ice cream, or cake, because there is nothing embarrassing about loving the classics. I’m talking about something that you were pretty sure you’d get side-eyed… Read More
Mexican Hot Chocolate Beer Brownies with Churro Crust I made your brownies spicy and I don’t even feel bad about it. But it’s so you don’t have to share with anyone who doesn’t like spicy things. You can even over-exaggerate just HOW spicy they are in order to keep them all for yourself, I won’t… Read More
Beer Soft Pretzels with Guinness Cheese Sauce I miss pubs. I miss dive bars in strange cities, strangers in crowded bars, crowds at beer festivals. But until the world is back to normal, and until my pint doesn’t come with a side of deadly virus threats, I’ll begrudgingly stay home. And do my best to… Read More
Chocolate Murder Beer Cheesecake Bars Ok, I know, MURDER is a little aggressive. But it’s like “death by chocolate” just more intense. These aren’t a “passed away peacefully in their sleep” type of bars, these are much more in your face. Literally and figuratively. And if I’m going to be taken out by a baked… 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
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