Posts Tagged: Beer and Food
Book Review: The Beerbistro Cookbook, Beaumont Morin
Posted by on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 in - 2 comments
I found most of the dishes in this book of beer-laced recipes quite easy to prepare and a pleasure to serve. • No, I didn't. Of course I didn't. I never know what to say about cookbooks. The whole function of the book is to help you do something other than read them but in the review its only …
One April Night With Scandinavians In Toronto
Posted by on Sunday, March 22, 2009 in - 2 comments
I got a call from Vlado of Roland and Russell a few weeks ago with a plan: he wanted to get me to Toronto on April 15th, get me to Beerbistro and pour great Scandinavian beers into me as I eat wonderful food. Sadly (or rather happily) the life of the family man in the county town rarely provides …
And The Headline Read "Pub To Host Sausage Meet"
Posted by on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 in - 3 comments
I can't decide whether this is better than the Beer and Pie Festival or not that I wrote about almost a year ago. Is it because it is February? Is it because there are those (we go nameless) who consider beer an appropriate vegetable course when in the presence of beer or sausage or BBQ or any …
New York: Local 1, Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NYC
Posted by on Saturday, February 7, 2009 in - 3 comments
I picked this up two weeks ago at Wegman's in Ithaca for just $8.99. Even with an 80 cent dollar exchange rate that is great value... especially as this is an old school ridged bottle - so when the end times come, I can trade that for rice and mustard, right? • Tonight, we baked salmon slabs and …
Maine: Tom Attends Beer Dinner At Bar Lola, Portland
Posted by on Thursday, February 5, 2009 in - leave a comment
[Ed.: My pal in Maine, Tom Whitehead has forwarded his report on a beer dinner recently held at Bar Lola, Portland. Tom is one of my go to guys when I am in Maine for doing things like dropping Mentos in Coke to see when happens. Sometimes he screws up his face at the odd Belgian brew that I hand …
Saturday Night Dinner Norwegian Style In Canada
Posted by on Saturday, September 27, 2008 in - 1 comment
I hope Knut would be proud. I made dinner tonight entirely out of the Kitchen of Light, a Norwegian cookbook based on a series by Andreas Viestad called New Scandinavian Cooking. We have a series on DVD. The parsnips baked with cumin and olive oil were the best but the way Viestad directed that … read more »
Water??? You People Are Clearly Not Doing Your Part!!!
Posted by on Monday, April 28, 2008 in - 3 comments
Sadness reigns with the tragic news that I read this evening: • “In a new report on bottled water consumption, the industry newsletter Beverage Digest said in its latest issue that per-person consumption of bottled water has now outpaced that of beer and is second only to carbonated soft drinks …
Notes From My Day Off Blogging But On Grilling
Posted by on Sunday, April 20, 2008 in - 5 comments
I have fallen into a habit of posting every day. I don't know when that started but I didn't so much not post yesterday on purpose as I had other things to do: driving guests around showing the town, organizing meat procurements, soaking ribs in Church-Key West Coast IPA, smoking and grilling …
Russian Bar Snacks Are My Bar Snacks!
Posted by on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 in - 12 comments
When I lived in Poland back in 1991, I loved the food. I was warned that the post-Soviet economy would mean line ups, inflated prices and scarcity. Nothing could be further from the truth for the experience I had in my Baltic resort city of Kolobrzeg. But even with the zap-shacks, bigos domovi … read more »
What Does Tasting Mean To Each Of Us?
Posted by on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 in - leave a comment
Taste and memory...clam fritters and plain ice tea. • I shouldn't be so lazy. The house is mine for a few days what with a March break trip. I have projects like a tub to caulk. I have beer to brew and to bottle. Heck if I wanted to I could get into those four krieks I have laid in for a … read more »
