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The first Irish Coffee I ever had was in San Francisco. It might have been at the Buena Vista (t’was a long time ago) but if not it was certainly in the same small tulip glass, a perfect balance of cold cream and hot slightly sweet boozy coffee. That was how it should be. It was years […]
On the coffee snob scale I think I fall somewhere between Chock Full of Nuts (I’m not even sure that is still for sale but I do love the old theme song) and a bean with flavor notes longer than my arm that requires a specific temperature and method of brewing or pressing or distilling. […]
This delicious custard cream pie uses the raw ingredients for Irish Cream (no Baileys, just Whiskey) to make a from scratch pie that satisfies all your Irish Cream cravings. With a crisp graham cracker crust and just a whisper of chocolate and coffee this should remind you both of your favorite cream pie and of […]
A rich and hearty gravy made with Guinness Irish Stout and mushrooms. Perfect with potatoes, bangers, or add a little milk or cream and make a luxuriously silky malty beer for breakfast biscuits and gravy.
Quick and delicious Individual Irish Soda breads slathered with chive butter. Made without eggs and kneaded in the food processor these rolls, adapted from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, are as quick as biscuits but as versatile as yeasted bread. Feeling Lucky: on finding four-leaf clovers For my fifth and sixth grade years we […]
Ice cream floats for grown ups. Smoked Maple Bourbon Caramel sauce drizzled over your choice of Milk Chocolate Extra Stout or Double Vanilla Ice Cream and Extra Stout Beer. Yesterday we had an ice cream social, the house full of family, friends, and stout (root beer for the kids). I guess you could also call […]
Homemade Guinness Mustard: Spicy, malty, mustardy, and made by you. Eat it all or share with your friends. Ah March, home of the other amateur drinking day when the party tents go up at every Irish bar in town. Years ago in San Francisco I went to one of my favorite watering holes with a […]
Not too sweet and spiced how you want them these simple to make gluten free graham style crackers are delicious on their own and amazing in pie crusts.
