Tag: drinks

From the kitchen and the bar – grilling lots of meat, my adventures with kimchi and a few new beers

My husband and I wanted to try to grill out something other than steak. So, rather than getting one more steak from work, I got a pork tenderloin, a small piece of beef sirloin and a couple of chicken breasts. We marinated each of these in a different marinade. I did a bit of web … Continue reading From the kitchen and the bar – grilling lots of meat, my adventures with kimchi and a few new beers →

From the Bar and From the Back Room – Ginger Beer and Kvasir

Recently, I indulged myself in a quick bit of fermenting. One of my favorite magazines, Imbibe, had a recipe for homemade ginger beer. Currently, that recipe isn’t up on their website (they have one that is a bit of a cheat since it uses a CO2 cartridge). I’ll reproduce it here with my changes though … Continue reading From the Bar and From the Back Room – Ginger Beer and Kvasir →

From the Bar – Another week, another sixpack of random beers.

At my current job, a sixpack of random beers costs about what I make working for an hour and a half.  It’s more fun that going to a movie with people who always annoy me, so I guess it’s a fairly cheap entertainment.  One, Otto’s Apricot Wheat, we had before, so I’ll only review the … Continue reading From the Bar – Another week, another sixpack of random beers. →

From the Bar and Kitchen – Strong drink, duck and a blue cheese tart

It’s always curious to see a “no fly” symbol on your newly purchased alcohol.  The alcohol in question is Stroh 80, a 160 proof (80%) rum from Austria, which is about as not Caribbean as you can get.  Having some Austrian ancestry, and an eternal curiosity about strange liquor, I had to get a bottle.  Happily, … Continue reading From the Bar and Kitchen – Strong drink, duck and a blue cheese tart →

From the kitchen and bar – monkfish, and yes, more beers plus a cider

A week or two ago, my husband asked if I could pick up some fish for dinner.  When asked what kind of fish, he said “white” aka “not salmon”.  So off I went to the seafood department to look for some “white” fish, as opposed to whitefish which I generally get smoked. They had quite … Continue reading From the kitchen and bar – monkfish, and yes, more beers plus a cider →

From the Bar, from the kitchen etc – Naan, beers and pizza

Snow day today, thanks to the current snow storm moving across Pennsylvania.  A fair amount of  snow and it is getting windy. My coming home from work after dark could have been a bit dicey.  So I’m happily typing here on my couch, sipping a bit of tea from Republic of Tea and hang out with my husband … Continue reading From the Bar, from the kitchen etc – Naan, beers and pizza →

From the Back Room – John Palmer’s Elevenses, aka hobbit beer aka boggie slobber

Finally, we have a new beer brewed by us. This is Northern Brewer’s Elevenses, a recipe that they co-created with John Palmer, evidently a well-known homebrewer, but you couldn’t prove it by me.  In that both my husband and I spend inordinate amounts of time imagining what our sword and sorcery characters eat and drink, … Continue reading From the Back Room – John Palmer’s Elevenses, aka hobbit beer aka boggie slobber →

From the Bar – Five new wines

For Thanksgiving, we did a couple of Cornish hens, aka little chickens.  They came out nicely, roasted for nearly two hours at 375.  Nothing special with them, just stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy and my husband’s favorite cranberry orange sauce (recipes for the last here). This weekend we made my husband’s fabulous seafood chowder.  Along … Continue reading From the Bar – Five new wines →

From the Kitchen and From the Bar – chicken paprikash, a French wine and a holiday beer

Chicken paprikash is a meal I grew up with.  Half my ancestry is Hungarian, with those relatives having settled in New Jersey right off the boat.  We would have a big bowl of this dish with a pile of poppy seeded Kaiser rolls from the City Bakery in New Brunswick.  That bakery is long gone … Continue reading From the Kitchen and From the Bar – chicken paprikash, a French wine and a holiday beer →