Archive for December, 2009

From The Hop Press… Beer School: Beer and food pairing – the basics

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Before the age of craft beer, back when only macros were readily available, the only widely accepted beer and food pairing was the old standy-by: pizza and beer. And this wasn’t so much a “pairing” as it was a declaration of, “I am man! I eat pizza! I drink beer!” followed by some animalistic grunting. [...]

Gyoza

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I love dumplings. Steamed, boiled, pan-fried, in a soup, on their own, dipped in soy sauce… Any way you make them, they’re delicious. But I don’t like having to rely on take-out, so I like to make dumplings at home. Gyoza is a Chinese dumpling that’s popular in China and Japan. Gyoza is similar to [...]