Chocolate! Bananas!
My latest spent grain baking project: Chocolate Banana Bread. That is all. (Find the awesome recipe here!)
Eating & Drinking
Little Sumpin’ on a Tuesday Night
Way back in May 2010 I came across She Brews Good Ale. The first post I ever read was one on making Sima and I excitedly sent it to my husband, who was in the beginning stages of his interest in brewing beer. It was the first thing he ever brewed. In fact, it could be credited …
English Pale Granola
Beer bubbling away in my living room = English Pale Ale. Spent grain cooking experiment happily resting in my kitchen = granola. I am really pleased with how my second adventure in spent grain cooking turned out. I combined a couple of recipes (one for spent grain and one for just regular granola) and the …
Brew Day Just Got a Little Sweeter
Yesterday was a Brew Day at our house. Today there’s a batch of Bourbon Barrel Porter happily fermenting in corner of my living room. There are also several dozen beer cookies resting happily in my kitchen. I’ve been aware of the concept of baking with the leftover grain from the brew process (called spent grain*) …
These Vagabond Shoes . . .
As referenced in my previous post, I just spent a long weekend in New York. I planned the trip as a celebration of my husband’s 40th birthday. While the trip alone was a great celebration; even better was the fact that three other friends travelled from Richmond, and two additional from New Jersey to celebrate …
Worth Waiting For
Last year about this time I had just finished reading David Lebovitz’s The Sweet Life in Paris. The book is a collection of the author’s reflections on living in Paris with some of his recipes included at the end of every chapter. I drank in every word (along with a fair amount of Kir as …
Writers, Bears & Home Brew
This wasn’t my best week. We all have them, the ones where we feel like we aren’t quite bringing our “a-game.” The ones that leave us mostly exhausted. I’m lucky that these are few and far between for me. There was certainly a time in my life where they were more the norm than the …
Pickles
On a walk to see the Grand Illumination last night we noticed that Pasture was open and took a detour. Needless to say, we never made it to our original destination. We had already eaten dinner at home and settled in at the bar for a beer and peek at the menu for next time. …
Salsa Fish
I started making salsa fish more than ten years ago, when at a friend’s prompting I decided to pay a little more attention to what I was feeding myself for dinner. She was (rightly) appalled at the frequency with which I mentioned eating Lipton noodles and/or cereal for dinner. One of the first things I …
