Recipes for baking and cooking with beer that marry my love of food and good craft beer.
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…
Vanilla Beer Cake Bites with Blueberry Filling
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…
When it comes to baking, I’m always intrigued by a new spin on an old favorite. Not to say that I don’t fully appreciate the simplicity and beauty of a perfect and well done classic recipe. I’ll never tire of a traditional, straight forward apple pie with a huge scoop of homemade vanilla bean ice…
Strawberry Pineapple Pale Ale Cake with Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting This is the new beer-to-watch of 2016. Pineapples have been slowly sneaking their spiked heads into brew kettles for the past few years, closing the lead on grapefruit’s fruit-of-the-moment status. IPA’s are often the drug of choice for the pineapple craze, but the tentacles of…
Irish Red Ale Butternut Squash Bisque with Goat Cheese and Pomegranate
Grilled Angel Food Cake with Beer Macerated Strawberries
I came across Albion Amber Ale, from Marin Brewing Co this week. It isn’t a traditional Amber, but the flavors are bright and complex. One taste of this brown ale, and a caramel sauce immediately came to mind. The rich toffee and nut flavors paired beautifully with this recipe and the strong caramel and malt…
Beer Poached Pears with Chocolate Stout Fudge Sauce and Moose Munch Crumble
Collaborations are more than a partnership, more than a blending of ideas or a meeting of brewing minds. It’s a handshake that says, “I trust you, I trust your ideas, and I’m putting my breweries name on the line to prove it.” More prevalent in the beer world than in nearly any other industry, collaborations…
Beer Brined Rotisserie Spiced Chicken Legs I spent a few years resenting chicken. Not chicken in general, beer can chicken. Mostly because when people found out that I cooked with beer for a living, that was the first recipe they thought of. “Like….beer can chicken?” Um, yeah. Or Beer Brined Duck with Stout Pomegranate Sauce…
I made you a summery pie with a Double IPA Don’t be scared, this double IPA plays nice, I promise. I’m hesitant with double and triple IPA’s, over hopping a beer can result in a poorly balanced, pinchy tasting, bitter-in-a-bad-way beer that leads to my hesitation to sample the D & T IPA’s. That’s…
As summer heats up, so does my longing to add beer to everything I consume. I linger on the idea of changing classic recipes into beer recipes far longer than my busy day should allow. How would I add beer to a Tarte Tatin? What about an Blueberry pie? Or Eggs benedict? What beer would…
Irish Apple Beer Cake & Craft Beers For St Patrick’s Day Years ago I spent Saint Patrick’s day in Ireland. Stumbling around the city with rowdy locals, watching fireworks burst over the River Liffey. Since that night I’ve fostered a love for Ireland, her people, and her beer. There isn’t a celebration that can compare…
Invisible Apple Cake with Beer Caramel Sauce This is why you don’t try to do things halfway. And by “you” I mean me, I’m talking to myself again. It happens, look away if you must. On my way to dinner at a lovely couple’s house, I decided to kill two birds (not literally, I swear)…