The Great Ginger Beer Adventure This is a cross-post from over at Inn at the Crossroads, because I love ginger beer, and want to share it with everyone! And since I’m just crazy about making my own after trying the basic recipe I … Continue reading
“We went back into his little kitchen, and I sat on a stool at the tiny counter while he made the one thing I’ve never been able to get to come out right: It is an Eastern bread, only slightly … Continue reading
Thoughts: I’ve never really held with the idea that the Butterbeer in Harry Potter is basically some sort of cream soda. No way. To me, that’s a very American interpretation, with artificial flavoring, and so much sugar that it … Continue reading
“Menolly had detoured to the Lower Caverns and shared with him the handful of meatrolls she’d cadged from the cooks.” -Dragonriders of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey Thoughts: These are terrible. A curse, in that, so-easy-to-make addictive sort of way. I … Continue reading
“Jean’s dinner, smoked rock eel in caramel brandy sauce, lay chopped into fragments and scattered like debris from a battle. He was making his way slowly through dessert, a cluster of marzipan dragonflies with crystallized sugar wings that glimmered by … Continue reading
“Queequeg,” said I, “do you think that we can make out a supper for us both on one clam?” However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us. But when that smoking … Continue reading
“Laura made a great chili. She used lean-cut meat, dark kidney beans, carrots cut small, a bottle or so of dark beer, and freshly sliced hot peppers. She would let the chili cook for a while, then add red wine, … Continue reading
“‘Conte, I do believe Master Fehrwight has just requested nothing less than a ginger scald.’ Conte moved adroitly to fill this request, first selecting a tall crystal wine flute, into which he poured two fingers of purest Camorri ginger oil, … Continue reading
Although I’ll be updating posts while gone, I wanted to share with you that I’m going on a brief vacation. I’m off for a week to rural Pennsylvania, where I’ll be camping with 12k other people, and keeping a weather … Continue reading