A quick one today: this recipe by popular demand! For a recent party, I threw together some baked chicken wings. These things came out so tasty, even I was shocked! Although really, should I be shocked that chicken wings tossed in bacon fat & baked are delicious?? Hardly! I wish I’d gotten a better picture of how they came out [...]
(N.B. Brent wrote this back in November) So let’s give you some background. I’ve been doing Crossfit-style workouts 5 days a week for 6 months, and have gone Paleo for 2. I just got a job as a traveling consultant, and I’ve been scared to death that my “per diem” was going to take my diet and send it to [...]
Happy New Year! It sure has been a while. 2011 was a crazy year, having more ups and downs than most of the years before it. As far as beer goes, we made some great beers, attended our first National Homebrewers Conference in San Diego, and settled on plans to move to Adelaide, Australia to open our brewpub in a [...]
This year Big Brew Day fell on Brent’s scheduled weekend to brew; this was good for two reasons! 1. Brent was the one running around the house trying to brew while 20 friends were hanging out on the patio & in the backyard, and 2. I got to get in the kitchen and turn out some great beer-themed food! I [...]
My compost worms no longer love me. It’s sad, but true. The main diet that my happy little compost worms lived on up till recently was spent grain (the leftover grain from brewing day); that was until I finally decided to try my hand at making my own bread from it, instead of feeding it to the hungry, hungry wormies. [...]
I didn’t hold out a lot of hope for my Christmas Eve dinner. It’s true, that I’m usually a pretty darn good cook, but for these big holiday dinners or family get togethers I’m usually planning the menu a month in advance and swapping and changing out dishes until everything looks just right. This time, I was feeling procrastinatory (no [...]
I love when my friends out in the twitterverse get in contact to let me know they are working on a recipe they’re really proud of ; it’s even better when they are interested in having me post it for them! My friend Rob over at DailyBeerReview writes – if you couldn’t tell by the name – daily beer reviews, so food [...]
As most of you that read this blog are well aware, my family are not here in the USA, they are at home in Australia. This often leads me to a huge bout of homesickness at Christmas. Usually Brent and I keep a low profile on Christmas day, mostly joining the Jewish folk of South Florida at the movies, or [...]
Day #3 We had big plans to spend most of the morning in the Smithsonian Museum of American History and then hit the Georgetown waterfront for a late lunch. After a couple of hours wandering the amazing exhibits, my folks were done; too much walking the day before called for a lazy, sun soaked, beer in hand afternoon by the river. [...]
Day #2 in D.C. saw us hit the National Mall starting at the Captiol Building and a walk down to the Lincoln Memorial and back. Amazingly, even though Brent grew up in New Jersey (so close!), he had never done this either! It was quite a walk, probably 6 miles or so, so we’d built up quite the appetite. Another [...]
So, first things first. An apology for being gone from the blog-o-sphere for so long! School has been busy, my folks were here for a month from Australia and we took a great trip to D.C. and Delaware. D.C. and DE were great! We got to drink a myriad of beers we don’t get to drink at home, saw some [...]
So we left the big city D.C behind, and headed out to Rehoboth Beach, DE. Friends had lent us their condo for the week and we were planning on having a relaxing old time, along with a couple of brewery tours thrown in for good measure! First stop after dumping our luggage – Dogfish Head Brewpub! We tried a couple [...]
Today we have a guest post from my delightful (ahem) other half, Brent (aka BrentIndeed on Twitter). Hopefully we are going to make this a more frequent occurrence because he is way funnier than me Here he is talking about his love of all things pickled, and how he “fixed the pickles”! ———————————————————————– When I was 5 years old, I [...]
So, something rare happened in the “Shapiro” household this past weekend; we ran out of meat. This is quite the accomplishment from the couple whose freezer has been called the “meat freezer” by roommates past! Brent actually thought the idea that there was no meat in the fridge/freezer was so absurd that he actually pulled every last vegetable out of [...]
This weekend I was dying for some red meat; we’ve been mostly eating turkey and chicken lately because they are the only meats we’ve been able to find at the local Winn Dixie that are organic/grass fed (Food, Inc destroyed me people). So I gave in and bought the “all natural, certified humane” skirt steak, even though I know those [...]
