This Duck Bacon BLT / Chicken Club made with: home cured duck breast “Bacon”, oven baked hand pulled-chicken breast, and home baked tomato skin bread made for an excellent meal; especially when served with a cold brew and some homemade potato salad.
A big bowl of spicy hot Jambalaya served with a cool beer is a great way to celebrate Mardi Gras the Cajun way. However, not everyone is accustomed to heavily spiced food, so this mild version of the classic Creole dish is a great way to be inclusive for everyone to celebrate the holiday.
While many associate crab imperial with spring and summer, with blue claw crab meat widely available in modern supermarkets and online stores, this dish can bring some of those warm summer vibes to even the frostiest of months.
With the winter winds whipping around recently, this hearty meal with a malty beer was just the thing to raise household morale. Simple preparation, high satiability, tasty carbohydrate content, and warming nature all make stuffed steak rolls rank highly in the winter comfort food scale. This delectable meal gets even better when paired up with a malty brew to complement the roasted crust on steak’s exterior.
A beer pairing with steamed dumplings is a great way to celebrate Chinese New Year! Making steamed dumplings has become a family favorite tradition over the last few years as a way to welcome the Lunar New Year, and there are always a few changes made to the recipe every year. This year, ground chicken made for a tasty filling that paired well with a mild, easy drinking, beer.
Carrots are often relegated to a side dish. Underappreciated no longer, this delicious dessert lets carrots shine as the main focus for a change; and it only gets better when topped with chopped nuts and drizzled with honey from the backyard bees, further emphasizing the carrots’ inherent sweetness. This natural sweetness provided by the carrots is balanced out with the crisp, hoppy bitterness offered by a strong pale ale or IPA, like this Zombie Dust.
With the vaccine & booster available, it seems a good time to safely (with facemasks and hand sanitizer at the ready) get out and support breweries & restaurants both near and far, ever in search of delicious beer and food pairings.
For this “filed trip”, had to stop Front Royal, Virginia to sample some great brews and food at Front Royal Brewing (now known as Vibrissa Beer)!
Hot soup on a cold winter day is one of the most satisfying simple pleasure meals anyone can have; and home baked bread with an appropriate beer pairing made this meal even better!
With the vaccine & booster available, it seems a good time to safely (with facemasks and hand sanitizer at the ready) get out and support breweries & restaurants both near and far, ever in search of delicious beer and food pairings.
Met up with some yinzers for this “Field Trip” to the Steel City; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Grabbed some great grub (and some of the giant sandwiches the city has become known for) and a few good pints at Fat Heads Saloon, and marveled at the unconventional location that The Church Brew Works has built inside of while sampling some beers made there.
Forget the milk, holiday cookies are better with beer!