Category: food & drink
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suds
Belly up to the bar, folks, this beer’s on me! Read.
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summbier
This latest batch is a little different from any other beer I’ve brewed, mostly because it’s the first time I’ve tried making beer without a recipe. Usually, I think of a beer I’d like to drink, google the name of it, and click through the various recipes until I find one that sounds like it’s… Read.
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stalled
Twelve hours later and no activity at all. The yeast seems to be completely inactive. First time that’s ever happened to me. UPDATE: 6:28 pm – False alarm. The beer’s okay. I was a little worried that I did something that would have killed the yeast, and I’ve spent the whole day going over and… Read.
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seeded
Planting season has arrived. It’s official when dinners go from being meticulously prepared over a period of hours and eaten long after sundown, to being deli-sliced pastrami and cheese sandwiches with a bag on chips on the side – still eaten after sundown, but now so that My Darling B can spend the last hour… Read.
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spoo
Day three, and my first batch of beer is still fermenting like crazy. One the yeast gets going, there’s no stopping it until it eats up all the malt sugar, converting it into alcohol and carbon dioxide so enthusiastically that they thrash up a big head of foam. I pour the beer into a giant… Read.
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blink
And, in the blink of an eye, the weekend was over. For the first time in months we slept in late Saturday morning – didn’t get out of bed until almost eight o’clock! What a couple of hedonists we can be! After we’d cleared the cobwebs from our heads with a couple cups of coffee,… Read.
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brewing
I have brewed again. I wanted to start with a simple ale, a lawnmower beer for the early spring weather, so I googled spring ale and clicked through the results until I found a recipe that was meant to be a clone of Anchor Steam beer. I didn’t follow the recipe exactly. Why would I?… Read.
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patio
As she was driving across town yesterday afternoon, making a mental list of all the things she would need from the store to make eggs Benedict for dinner that evening, My Darling B realized that dinner and this lovely day would be best enjoyed at the same time on a patio, and that’s how we… Read.
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thin
When THE STORM OF THE CENTURY blew into town yesterday afternoon, I was a little worried we wouldn’t be able to get to the library before it closed and we’d have to postpone our Nick and Nora weekend until next Friday. But no! My Darling B’s winter driving skills prevailed against the snow and slush… Read.
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classic
“No gin tonight son … unless it’s Hendrick’s!” On the advice of a good friend, we splurged on a bottle of Hendrick’s so we could enjoy classic cocktail night with a classic gin. The before-dinner gimlet was delicious, and the after-dinner perfect martini was, well, perfect. Best thirty dollars we ever spent. Read.
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