Chocolate Christmas Ale Cake with Dulce de leche Cream Filling Do you Christmas cake or do you Christmas pie? I do both. I love this chocolate pie that’s requested so regularly I am not allowed to attend holiday gatherings without it. But I also want cake because I’m like that. Apparently, I just love chocolate… Read More
Sticky Apple Pie Beer Focaccia Does anyone else think that “pumpkin spice” could just as easily be “apple pie spice” and be less basic and more appetizing or are you normal? I like pumpkin just fine but if it wasn’t shoved right into my face repeatedly from August until January I’d most likely forget about… Read More
This week is a crossover, it’s a convergence of seasons and it’s my favorite part of the seasonal Venn diagram that makes up the year. We have cozy-fall-fireplace weather but we also still have summer produce in abundance. Including but not limited to the absurd amount of tomatoes in my garden that didn’t get… Read More
Cuban Sandwich Sliders with Beer Pickled Peppers and Onions Do you know how long it’s been since I’ve made sandwiches for a crowd? Yes, yes you do. Of course you do! Because you’re a human, with eyes, who has also been a party to the past 18 months of existence in this crazy world. We… Read More
I know what you’re thinking. You’re looking at this thinking, “Why you say crostata when this is clearly a galette?” No? You weren’t thinking that because you’re normal and not a huge nerd like me? Sorry. But now I have to address this issue. This is what happens when I create a problem that didn’t… Read More
Overnight Maple Beer Pecan Croissant Bread Pudding Muffins Let’s talk unpopular opinions again, shall we? It’s fun when we pretend to fight. I’ll start off this holiday edition of UO with these little gems: Love Actual is a terrible movie. It’s about people who hardly know each other and aren’t really in LOVE but just… Read More
Beer Bacon Cranberry And Cream Cheese Bites, the perfect Thanksgiving appetizer! You guys, you have to give me a break. I just got back from here and now I’m having a hard time functioning in the rain with my residual mild sunburn. I know, I know, you don’t feel bad for me AT ALL. I… Read More
Spinach Artichoke Dip Stuffed Beer Steamed Mushrooms (perfect appetizer for thanksgiving or vegetarian main!) You guys, it’s here. IT. IS. HERE!! After two years of working and waiting I finally have an actual, real-life, physical copy of my book LUSH in my grubby little paws. It’s gorgeous and by far my favorite book I’ve ever… Read More
Beer Ricotta Raviolo with Egg and Herb Butter Sauce, time to get fancy! Plus a book giveaway! It’s somewhere North of 3 am and we’re walking the winding back country roads of Big Bear, California. Thin dresses swishing in the cool August air as we try to walk back into town from the wedding Linda… Read More
Beer Eggnog Ice Cream I’m here to change your mind, to flip your vote. I know, I know, eggnog is gross, right? Yeah, I thought so too. Then I realized that it’s not. It’s actually quite amazing, it’s basically boozy, drinkable ice cream. IF you make it right. Most importantly: back off the nutmeg. Because… Read More
IPA Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars with Beer Candied Pecans I know, I get it. You’re already sick of pumpkin things and the season hardly started. I hear you, for me fall is all about hops. Spending last week running around the hop fields of Yakima, my love for hops has never been stronger (I’ll tell you… Read More
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… Read More
Fiery Thai Kettle Chips and Sweet Potato Burgers with Beer Sweet Chili Cream Sauce I was a vegetarian for 3 years. Mostly because I grew up on a farm, and I saw how the sausage was made. It didn’t stick, but what did stick is my true and complete love for non-meat burgers (and yes,… 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
10-minute Beer Bread Cinnamon Rolls: Takes ten minutes to get these in your oven! It started years ago, when, for a brief moment, I was trying to be less weird and figure out if “normal” was my bag. For some reason, cinnamon rolls seems like something normal people did on Christmas. I grew up with… Read More
Mascarpone Winter Ale Stuffed French Toast Winter ushers in a new crop of hard-to-get-your-hands-on beers, and they are just starting to poke their heads out the pumpkin saturated beer crowd. Winter ales have flown under the main-stream-beer-radar for a while, getting a bit lost as beer drinkers trample from the squash-spice section over to the… Read More
Puff Pastry Cake with Maple Ale Pastry Cream It’s storming in a way that makes me nervous. But maybe not in the way you’d expect. I watch the outage map light up all around my town as the lights start to flicker off. I hear the light footsteps of rain on the roof and the… Read More
Lemon Garlic Beer Butter Cod You have to jump, sometimes. When I was in high school I was a lifeguard on a lake in Northern California for a summer doing a steady rotation of pool watch, lake watch, and zip-line duty. The last of which was my least favorite. I was there for the water,… Read More