Take pizza for example. I do love using my pizza stone in the oven, but there’s just something about grilling a pizza in the summer. Might be the satisfying grill marks… who knows. In any case, I grilled some pizza the other day.
Did I mention that we have a Weber grill? Of course we do! [...]

I could totally go for some of that beefy goodness right now. Especially like the ones my husband and I made for dinner the other night.
We used to be really into mixing a whole bunch of extra ingredients into the burgers — onions, peppers, jalapeños, Worchestershire sauce, spices, sauces, and the list goes on. We’ve [...]

I had hoped to come back from the Garden State Craft Brewers Festival with a glowing review to post, but unfortunately, this one was pretty disappointing. So I’ll make this quick.
The fest took place on the Battleship NJ. It would have been pretty cool, except that the festivities were housed under a giant, claustrophobia-inducing tent, [...]

My husband, Tim, and I make a really tasty Foreign Extra Stout. This style of stout is sweet and fairly high in alcohol (ours is around 8% ABV). It’s intended to be a relaxing, refreshing beer, to be enjoyed in tropical climates. We use black patent malt to give it a nice chocolate-coffee roastiness, but [...]

My husband turned this:
into this:
Tim is what one might call “a keeper.”

To see the progression of this marvelous feat, check out the pictures.
I can’t explain it nearly as well as he can, but to quickly overview, he started with a regular-ol‘ chest freezer. We purchased a regulator, which turns off the freezer when it’s reached [...]

Okay, not really. But we did manage to make it into Flying Dog’s video recap of Savor.
As I said previously, we’ve been following/followed by Flying Dog on Twitter for some time now, and we actually got to meet the Flying Dog guys at Savor last month. They had a video camera with them and conducted [...]

On Saturday, May 17, 2008, I had the extreme pleasure and joy of attending the first and hopefully annual Savor in Washington DC! Whoa!
I attended the event with my husband (Tim), my brother (Ray), my brother’s girlfriend (Melissa), and two friends (Tyler and Allison). Ranging in age from 24-27, we were, in all probability, the [...]