What’d You Do Last Weekend?

Heading to a party where there will be lots of wine, and not sure what to take? How about some simple savory cookies - biscotti and sables made for wine pairing?
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Sour Cherry Stout

Posted by jenny on 07/25/2009
Sour Cherries

After making a really lovely hefeweizen earlier this year, we decided to make a sour cherry stout when sour cherries came into season. Cherry season – at least sour cherry season – is remarkably short in Seattle given how long the season is for bings and Rainiers. By the time I’d identified friends with cherries on their trees, the cherries were either on their way out, or birds and critters had already taken the best of the crop.


Rhubarb Hefeweizen, Part 2

Posted by jenny on 05/23/2009
Rhubarb Hefeweizen Bottling

Bottling night arrived, and we had a good haul for 5 gallons of beer - 26 bottles (all around 18 - 24oz). It's still pretty bitter, but we added some sugar and put the caps on and will hope for the best. There's not much rhubarb flavor to the beer - there was some initially - but it looks like a nice, milky wheat beer nonetheless. In a couple of weeks, we'll celebrate and pop open a bottle or two.


Rhubarb Hefeweizen, Part 1

Posted by jenny on 05/20/2009
Rhubarb Hefeweizen

Last week we started our first homebrew of the season - and it's the first brew we've done in a while. We had some beautiful rhubarb in the garden, and considering our affection for sour beers, Todd and I decided to take a chance with adding rhubarb to a basic hefeweizen recipe. We won't know for a few weeks how it will turn out, but it should be a nice refreshing wheat beer for summer, I hope.


Beef & Guinness Pie with Irish Soda Bread

Posted by jenny on 03/13/2008
Irish Soda Bread

With the weather still a little cold, Todd was itching to try out a beef & Guinness pie recipe he'd seen on Saveur.com. I wanted to bake something, so I accompanied the pie with soda bread, and of course we did this the night before St. Patrick's. The pie was so-so - the crust was nasty (it was a nice store-bought puff that had been languishing in the freezer too long), and there was a lot of sauce that didn't have a great flavor. With some variation, I think this will be an excellent recipe for our files!


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