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 [...]

Last weekend I participate in Fuggled’s International Homebrew Project; aimed to get some hombrewer’s together around the world to pick a recipe, brew it and then blog about it This year’s recipe was a remake of a 1933 Barclay Perkins Milk Stout. Frankly, before this came up, I’d never heard of it; shameful to be sure! Kristen England from the BJCP [...]

I don’t normally make New Year’s resolutions. In the past I’ve made them in order to hold myself accountable to do specific things; get my drivers license, lose 20 lbs…blah, blah, blah. Never works. I didn’t get my drivers licence till I was 27 (10 failed resolutions later) and I go up and down those 20lbs based on what exciting [...]

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 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 [...]

This week my pre-ordered wet hops from Brewmasters Warehouse are finally in! I have a pound of Citra and a pound of Cascade coming that are certainly destined for great things out of my brew pot!! I had thought we might do two separate beers and single hop them, but it seems I underestimated the equivalencies between dry and wet [...]

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 [...]

This was a dinner I threw together the other night, and promised to post the recipe…sorry for the slowness (Sara!). We picked up some organic white Quinoa at Costco a couple of weeks ago (I know – Costco has cool, healthy ingredients? Who knew?) and I’ve been trying to think of things to do with it that don’t involve me [...]

  After brewing some interesting beers over the past months, Brent and I both decided it was time to brew some drinkable, sessionable and wide-appeal beers. I decided to do with an Oskar Blues "Dales Pale Ale” clone and Brent did a Dogfish Head “60 Minute IPA” clone. Of course, because a) We are not Brian Lutz or Sam Calagione [...]

I’ve definitely been lacking on the potable side lately, and seeing those that almost drained the keg on the 4th July and Daily Beer Review’s Rob seemed to really like my most recent attempt, I thought I would post the recipe for posterity! Read Rob’s review here, and then follow his blog while you’re there! This was a recipe where [...]

I made these delicious looking morsels for dinner last night They were a great, relatively light dinner; I usually am not a fan of the turkey burger but after having a delectable one at Relish Burger Bar a couple of weeks ago, I decided to revisit them. I stepped outside of my normal burger-spice-realm with some Moroccan style spices and [...]

I love barbecue, and I love screwing with traditional recipes. This combines both! I think this recipe started a couple of 4th of Julys ago when I was looking for some “all American” food to whip up for an Independence Day celebration; I took a recipe from Bon Appétit and messed with it until I had a recipe based on [...]