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| Heather's Recipe, Jan. 2012 - Mike's B-day | |
The idea for this meal all started with searching for some exciting new pasta to try. I'm always intrigued by new pasta shapes that you can't always get at the grocery stores so I ordered Italian made Benedetto Cavalieri Bucatini from Amazon. It came in a two pack! I love Amazon! Bucatini is like a thick spaghetti but has a hole running through it. I made Mike open the pasta present for a sneak preview to dinner. Read more... 
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| Topic(s): recipes new recipes home cooking books beer bucatini bolognese rocco pork ommegang arcadia ales | |
| By Gogh on February 5, 2012 at 8:30pm EST | Add Comment |
| Mike's Recipe, Jan. 2012 - Waterzooi | |
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. Read more... 
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| Topic(s): recipes new recipes home cooking books waterzooi soup stew beer dinner chicken | |
| By Pale on January 22, 2012 at 3:48pm EST | Add/View Comments (1) |
| New Restaurant - The Old Toad | |
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. Read more... 
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| Topic(s): restaurants new restaurants dinner the old toad bar british pub beer pork | |
| By Gogh on January 22, 2012 at 3:16pm EST | Add Comment |
| Ravioli Shop | |
 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. Read more... 
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| Topic(s): products home cooking shopping ravioli pasta | |
| By Gogh on January 12, 2012 at 3:09pm EST | Add Comment |
| Second Trip - The Owl House | |
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. Read more... 
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| Topic(s): second trip restaurants the owl house dinner steak grilled cheese sweet potato fries beer | |
| By Pale on January 4, 2012 at 9:00pm EST | Add Comment |
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