Not sure if this officially qualifies as pizza. It has no sauce. You cover the crust with provolone, then add slices of pear, then sprinkle some crumbled gorgonzola, and finally add some nuts. Supposed to be walnuts, but all we had was pecans, and that worked well, too.
If you’ve ever had gorgonzola, you know [...]
Yes, leftovers. I had another pairing last night I hope to post on, but I’m going to go with what’s fresh on my mind right now.
Hobgoblin is an English brown ale. Newcastle is an English brown ale. The chasm between them is vast. Hobgoblin is very rich, malty, and pleasantly sweet. It’s not overpowering but [...]
Not great steak, just top sirloin on sale at Publix. Wrapped in bacon at the suggestion of my daughter. And I tried to hit medium using a digital thermometer, but it ended up just a smidge below well done. So, whatever. Bacon covers a multitude of sins.
The beer was from a [...]
“If people were really honest with themselves, they’d realize that sometimes they’d just rather have a beer.” So goes the recent Sam Adams commercial. Too true. For example, when you break out the Penzey’s Chili 9000 and cook up some red and yellow bell peppers, onions, and chicken, can you think of a better beverage [...]
Malty beer, red meat. Good bet.
The beef stroganoff I make is from a 5 ingredient/15 minute cook book. Well, of course I can barely cook a hot dog in 15 minutes. Something like this takes me quite a bit longer. The guts of this are ground beef, mushrooms, a jar of [...]
Give me a break. What does it take to find a good beer pairing with this dish?
This time it was a homebrewed tripel. A fine example of the style if I do say so myself. Previously I’d tried two different IPAs with a big fail. In contrast, I’ve had some success with pairing Belgian-style beers [...]
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On a trip to the local Aldi’s grocery store, my wife picked up some potato chips as a novelty, knowing that I’d be interested in trying something that calls itself “Beer Chips.” The Beer Chips website says that they are “thick-cut kettle style chips with a serious coating of sugar and salt and to top it off, [...]
Yes, round two with my world famous spaghetti with Italian sausage with creamy tomato sauce. Still top notch even as a leftover. I credit the perseverance of tastiness here to my keeping all the parts separate in the fridge. Sauce separate from noodles separate from sausage.
Serve it all up on a plate and microwave for [...]
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There is a universal law you cannot escape, no matter how far or fast you run from it: all meat tastes better wrapped in bacon. Plenty of vegetables too. But 100% of meat: chicken, pork, steak, turkey, fish, whatever. Wrap it in bacon and easily pump up the yum.
This was an ad hoc meal with [...]
I had previously done a successful pairing with Sweetwater IPA and an Italian dish, but the food was kinda crudely thrown together, and it featured a cream sauce. I wanted to give it another go with a more properly-prepared Italian dish, and one featuring a tomato-based sauce. If I keep this blog going long enough [...]
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