A couple of weeks ago I received an email asking if I was available to take part in the Sharp’s connoisseur choice cook off final, apparently the recipe I’d submitted on Sharp’s Facebook pagehad been chosen by 2 michelin star chef Nathan Outlaw to represent him in the final. It seemed like far too good of an [...]
View Post beer and food, beer recipe, beer recipes, bottled beer, cask ale, cornish beer, recipeThis recipe was part of the winning menu on Masterchef, and is taken straight from the BBC website here, Hope Tim doesn’t mind as I’ve been a bit cheeky and jumped on the bandwagon but these burgers looked amazing and they have beer and chilli in the recipe what more could you want? Big Congratulations [...]
View Post beer and burgers, beer and food, beer recipe, beer recipes, burgers, cooking with beer, masterchefThis excellent Pheasant recipe was entered into the cooking with beer competition, Pheasant is one of my favourite meats and this stew sounds absolutely delicious. You can check out the full version on Ale is good, which also has some other yummy sounding recipes on there. Ingredients 4 pheasants – jointed into breasts, legs, and [...]
View Post badger beer, beer recipe, beer recipes, cooking with beer, stewFollowing on from the cooking with beer competition here is one of the excellent recipes that was submitted, It comes from Leigh of The Good Stuff, which is one of my favourite blogs, full of food and beer stuff. Leigh is a great guy too, knows his stuff, despite supporting Leeds. So over to Leigh [...]
View Post beer and pork, beer recipe, beer recipes, cooking with beer, smoked beerSorry it’s taken so long to announce the winner of the wonderful mixed case from My Brewery Tap, we had way more entries to our cooking with beer competition than I ever imagined. There was everything from Pork cooked in beer to nutella and beer pancakes, some of the recipes were incredibly simple others required [...]
View Post beer and food, beer recipes, BrewDog, cooking with food, recipeA couple of days ago I spotted Richard Fox’s Beer and Food book going cheap so decided to order it and see what it was like. I’ve only had a quick flick through so there will be a proper review of it soon, but in the meantime I decided to make his beer mashed potatoes [...]
View Post beer and food, beer recipes, bottled beer, cooking with beerLast night @davelozman and his mrs came for tea, It’s always a great night and we usually sup some fantastic beer so I took a bit of a risk and tried to incorporate some beer into the first course. I’ve made beer batter before but only ever for big chunks of fish and I usually [...]
View Post beer and food, beer batter, beer recipe, beer recipes, BrewDog, IPAThis is my favourite recipe for beer battered fish n chips, it’s totally up to you which beer you use but I find the fizzier, yeastier ones give a better texture to the batter, the trick is to have the beer really cold too. I like to fry my fish then let it stand while [...]
View Post beer batter, beer recipe, beer recipesNow that the nights have drawn in and the weather has got cooler, I start to fancy darker, richer food as a result the slow cooker gets more of a hammering that usual. My beer tastes also start to change, I move onto the more autumnal, darker fruity beers such as stouts and porters, that’s [...]
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