Category: food & drink

• The Bayou

  July 22, 2014

  festivals, food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, play, restaurants

  The day was still eighty degrees and damp as a dishrag when we got home last night. I mowed the lawn anyway, something I had planned to do tonight but that was before I knew I was going to eat a dinner so spicy that I would need to walk it off or risk lying… Read.

• what’s better?

  June 11, 2014

  food & drink, play, restaurants

  “I want pizza,” My Darling B said to me when we ran into each other in the hall yesterday.  I didn’t have any on me at the time, so she had to wait until I took her to Roman Candle after work, where we ordered a large pie with four kinds of meat, including some… Read.

• tasters

  May 6, 2014

  beer, festivals, food & drink, Madison Craft Beer Week, play, restaurants

  I only had ten beers, honest! And I feel just fine! We stopped by Harmony Bar after work for a free beer tasting they were hosting as part of craft beer week. I tried six or eight beers (it may have been as many as ten, but I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging)… Read.

• Craft Beer Week

  May 3, 2014

  beer, festivals, food & drink, Madison Craft Beer Week, play, restaurants

  It’s Madison Craft Beer Week! We stopped at Next Door Brewing after work to get something to eat and OH MY GOODNESS I’VE NEVER SEEN IT SO BUSY! The place was wall-to-wall beer-drinking and conversating customers! We had to wait at the bar for a table, but only for fifteen minutes or so and, as… Read.

• crazy

  April 26, 2014

  daily drivel, farmer’s market, food & drink, play

  The Crazy Legs Classic is on today. Not that either My Darling B or I will be running in it. We won’t even be in one of the fund-raising groups wearing tutus, drinking beer and walking at the very end of it, although the idea does have a certain appeal (anybody wanna join us next… Read.

• cookout

  April 13, 2014

  cook-out, food & drink, play

  The grill! I fired up the grill! It’s grill time again! Oh happy day! These are the rites of spring I dream of all winter long! Wadding up the paper, piling up the charcoal, striking the match, tending the red-hot coals. The meat patties sizzling as they grow plump on the grille. I am so… Read.

• Cheater’s Witte

  April 12, 2014

  beer, food & drink, hobby, homebrewing, play

  This is the batch I was sure I’d ruined last week by mashing it with water that was too hot. When I measured the temp of the mash just before I drained the sweet wort, it was about 170 degrees, maybe a little less. It was the first time I’d seen mash temps that high… Read.

• Wilbur

  March 23, 2014

  beer, food & drink, hobby, homebrewing, play

  I cribbed the grain bill for this latest batch of beer from the menu of Next Door Brewing, a brew they call Wilbur because of the oats they add to the mash. My Darling B says it’s her favorite of all the beers they brew, so I’m going to see if I can make some… Read.

• hospitality

  February 23, 2014

  beer, food & drink, play, restaurants

  When I was a boy, our family used to pile into the car about once a month and make the two-hour drive from our home in central Wisconsin to visit my father’s parents in Door County where, mere minutes after we got out of the car and were welcomed at the door, my grandmother would… Read.

• foamy

  February 22, 2014

  beer, food & drink, hobby, homebrewing, play

  “Bottle Bomb” is a term in the homebrewing hobby that refers to beer so enthusiastically carbonated that it blows the cap right off the bottle, and sometimes even bursts the bottle itself. I haven’t brewed a batch yet that produced a bottle bomb, but I came pretty close with a batch I brewed last July.… Read.