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Mike's Recipe, Jan. 2012 - Waterzooi
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We received a great book for Christmas this year called The Best of American Beer & Food. It's full of cool recipes that utilize and pair with craft beers. I knew I wanted to do a recipe from it for my January New Recipe post, so I got to work flipping through it.
We often have a lot of beer in the fridge and basement here so I wanted to find a recipe that could utilize a beer we already had. The two beers I was most interested in cooking with were Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout and Weyerbacher Merry Monks' Ale (a tripel). Most of the recipes that called for a stout also involved grilling red meat. I figured I'd save those for the summer, so I ended up going with an intriguing recipe for Waterzooi that called specifically for a tripel-style ale. Merry Monks' would be perfect and its one of our favorite beers.
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Topic(s): recipes
new recipes
home cooking
books
waterzooi
soup
stew
beer
dinner
chicken
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Pale on January 22, 2012 at 3:48pm EST |
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New Restaurant - The Old Toad
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We had a very fun date night planned, to eat somewhere new and then go watch Cesar Millan at Rochester's Auditorium Theater!
A couple of our dinner ideas fell though though because they were closed on Sunday, Edibles and Lento (both will be added to our Upstate Bucket List). So we decided on a local favorite we've heard good things about called The Old Toad, a British pub. Good beer and homey food sounded wonderful on a cold winter evening. We had a nice time but unfortunately it wasn't perfect.
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Topic(s): restaurants
new restaurants
dinner
the old toad
bar
british pub
beer
pork
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Gogh on January 22, 2012 at 3:16pm EST |
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Ravioli Shop
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A few years ago, a friend gave me a box of handmade ravioli from The Ravioli Shop. They were excellent and we always wanted to check out their shop. Well, a Groupon came up for half off their goods and we couldn't pass it up.
The shop is cute. One wall is lined with refrigerator cases full of so many different flavors. They also had breads and speciality Italian products.
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Topic(s): products
home cooking
shopping
ravioli
pasta
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Gogh on January 12, 2012 at 3:09pm EST |
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Second Trip - The Owl House
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Back in November we went to The Owl House. We mentioned at the end of that post that we really wanted to bring my vegetarian sister back there over the holidays and we were able to do just that.
Heather and I arrived early and got the opportunity to sit at the bar and get a drink. There is something so pleasant about sitting at a quaint bar like that while being served wonderful beer. We came straight from work so it was a nice quiet way to wind down from the day before dinner. I was able to get a Stone Vertical Epic 11.11.11. We have a bottle of both 10.10.10 and 11.11.11 in our basement aging but haven't tried either. Getting a chance to understand exactly what we were aging was a treat. It's a Belgian strong ale with a fruity finish, one of my absolute favorite styles of beer.
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Topic(s): second trip
restaurants
the owl house
dinner
steak
grilled cheese
sweet potato fries
beer
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Pale on January 4, 2012 at 9:00pm EST |
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Heather's Recipe, Dec. 2011 - Cuke Cups
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I was asked to make an appetizer for my family's Christmas get-together and I decided to make something light because there is always sooo much food. When I saw these cute creamy cuke cups in December's Everyday with Rachel Ray they reminded me of the peppadew bites (filled with goat cheese, mint, and drizzled with balsamic syrup) I've made in the past and thought it would be an interesting twist on a already family fav.
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Topic(s): recipes
new recipes
home cooking
cucumber
goat cheese
blueberries
appetizer
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Gogh on December 27, 2011 at 6:17pm EST |