Well, it’s that time of year again, where a bearded fat man, in celebration of Jesus, breaks in to your house in the middle of the night, eats your food, and leaves a few things before moving on to the next house. For others who don’t recognize this bizarre annual disturbance, it is also the…
Category: Cooking With Beer
A Nice Cuppa Cascade – The Benefits of Hop Tea
NOTE: While the point of this post is showing some cool things that hop tea helps out with, it should be stated that if your symptoms are REALLY bad and you’re in a lot of pain, a doctor would be better. Really. So, this might come as a complete shock to people who know me well, but…well…every…
Cooking With Beer: Pizza Dough 2 (Electric Boogaloo)
So remember back in the early days of this site three years ago, when I wrote a post about beer pizza dough and included a recipe? No? Oh thank god. Good. Don’t try and search for it. Just keep reading. After a few years of making pizza at home, I’ve figured out a recipe…
These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty – Pretzel & Beer Workshop
Ah, the Pretzel. So soft, so salty, so delicious. Aside from a cheese and cured meat platter, it’s one of my favourite companions with beer. So it was a thrill to be invited to Kitchen Canada and attend a workshop on how to properly make an authentic, German pretzel, with suggested beer pairings by the…
Barkeep, Another Course – The Canadian Craft Beer Cookbook
Longtime readers of this site along with anyone who has known me for like, five minutes knows that one of my most enjoyable activities is cooking. Additionally, finding ways to cook with beer is another interest of mine, although I should say that beyond an excellent cake recipe, a weiss pizza crust, BBQ sauce, and…
The Cake is Not a Lie (Chocolate Stout Cake Recipe)
LOOK AT THIS CAKE. Dear lord. Okay. First, an origin story. So my friend Danielle M. Friedman, who is Sous Chef at the West & Mill Bistro Bar in Atlanta, Georgia, was pondering dessert ideas one day and I humbly suggested one of my favourites, the Chocolate Stout Cake, but with a frosting that incorporated…
My First Beer Pairing Dinner
So March 25th marked a really interesting moment in my beer learning adventures. For the first time in my life I attended a beer pairing dinner. The dinner, put on by Mirella Amato’s Barley’s Angels, a group dedicated to educating women about the wonderful world of beer and hosted by Guy McClelland of McClelland Premium…
Cooking With Beer: Beer Pizza Dough
So when I first heard that beer can be used for pizza dough I got a little excited. The source that first told me said that it could be used as a substitute for yeast and water. Since then, a few have mentioned that only unfiltered beer (beer that still has active yeasts in the…
Cooking With Beer: Ale-Braised Short Rib Sandwich With Horseradish & Pickled Vegetables
Isn’t the very TITLE of this post making you drool? Reader and all around New York artist babe Caroline sent this my way along with the text “Oh my god“. And I have to say, that about sums this recipe up. Figures that I read this recipe JUST as I start The Dieting to get ready…
Cooking With Beer: Beer Sausages Inna Bun
One of the things I’m going to be doing over the next little while is finding some recipes and coming up with a few of my own that involve beer. This will involve anything from sauces, batters, cakes…whatever I can find. Just to see what I can make with the wonderful drink. The following recipe…
The Thirsty Wench 