Recipes for baking and cooking with beer that marry my love of food and good craft beer.
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…
Beer Cheeseburger Pie with Dill Pickle Potato Chip Crust This was the first recipe I ever cooked. Well, a variation of this, devoid of beer and with the inclusion of Bisquick. I was 9 and my mom asked me to pick a recipe I wanted to cook. I had no idea where to start. I…
There are foods that I relent to making from scratch, taking hours to carve a meal out of whole ingredients. Hours spend on homemade pasta, breads, pie dough and sauces. The extra time is more than worth it for real food, feed to those I love from the earth, to my hands to the table.…
The creaminess of chocolate pairs so well with a well crafted porter. For this tart I used Firestone Walker Reserve Porter, it has the perfect balance of flavors for this recipe with notes of chocolate, coffee, caramel and a touch of a citrus taste. You also want to use a really well made chocolate, because, like beer,…
Baked Buttermilk Beer Popcorn Chicken with Honey Beer Dipping Sauce. So easy and even freezer friendly! When I was 22 I worked at a locked down level 14 facility that housed juvenile delinquents. I was only there to work with one. A baby faced 12-year-old named Tyrell with dark chocolate skin and big brown eyes.…
Beer Candied Bacon Dark Chocolate Bark plus Holiday Gifts for Beer Lovers If you were to ask me about the best gift I’ve ever been given it’d take me a while to come up with the answer. I’m always uncomfortable getting gifts, awkwardly opening them as the giver waits for the expected reaction. Giving them,…
A few years ago I read an email from a reader, late at night, right in the middle of my most honest hour. She asked about culinary school, art school, college, where should she go? What should she do? “Don’t go” was my answer. I told her to save her money and travel. If you want…
Peach Ale Crème Brulee Tart & Let’s Talk about Peach Beer A craft brewers excitement for the changing of the seasons and the new crop of fresh produce to play with rivals even the most innovative chefs. Mention fruit beers just a few years ago and the collective groan from most beer lovers was…
Chocolate Stout Candy Cane Cake & Christmas Beers
Chocolate Stout Mousse Brownies and What The Heck Is A Stout?
Honey Beer Biscuits with Strawberry Belgian Ale Sauce
I’m going to start this post by telling you that I am biased. That being said and out of the way: The West Coast of the United States has the best beer in the world. At least, it has the highest concentration of fantastic craft breweries. I used two old favorites for this post. Black…
Vanilla Beer Cake Bites with Blueberry Filling
Awesome Chocolate Stout Loaf Cake that Happens to Be Vegan For a very meat eating, dairy lover I have an odd obsession with vegan food. But I have a few hard and fast rules. First and foremost, it can’t be “good for vegan,” it has to be so good people actually say “wait…this is vegan?”…
I’ve learned a few things in the handful of days I’ve lived in Seattle. People here drive like nice, sane, humans. Unfortunately, I’ve been conditioned by the LA freeways to drive like a pissed off asshole. I’ve been driving in LA since I was a teenager. I need to learn to drive like a sane…
Apple Pie with Pale Ale Mascarpone Cream and Beer Pie Dough
Pumpkin Ale Farro Roasted Asparagus Pomegranate and Goat Cheese Salad Somehow I ended up being the girl who brought salad to Thanksgiving. Not my usual holiday offering. Spending the holidays in an unfamiliar city and not being the host for the first time in forever drove me to beer up a salad. Maybe it’s caused…
Drunk Diablo: Chocolate Stout Devils Food Cake with Mexican Hot Chocolate Frosting When you have a weird job, there are two categories of projects you work on. The first types are the reasons you got into this in the first place. The love projects. The creative soul projects. The goosebumps and fevered excitement projects. Those are the ones…