Slow-Cooker Beer-Braised Pork and Black Bean Soup Ingredients 2 12-ounce bottles of beer (preferably lager) 1 can chopped chipotle chilies in adobo sauce 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 large onion, chopped 1 pound dried black beans, rinsed 1 1/2 pounds boneless pork butt (pork shoulder) Kosher salt Preparation: In the bowl of a slow cooker, [...]

And the final left over beer recipe! Beef and Beer Chili – seriously how could beef and beer go wrong! Adapted from CL – Beef and Beer Chili Ingredients 1 1/2 cups chopped onion (about 1 medium) 1 coarsely chopped green pepper 1 pound extralean ground beef 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 1/2 tablespoons chili [...]

Recipe number to 2 to rid my house of weird beer I don’t want to drink! Cheddar Beer Soup Ingredients 2 cups chopped onion (about 2 medium) 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 (12-ounce) bottle beer – harp lager 4 3 cups fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth, divided 1/2 cup all-purpose flour (about 2 1/4 ounces) 2 [...]

What do you do when you have a party and end up with a bunch of beer you don’t like? If you are me, you start looking up recipes! The winners were Beer Cheddar Soup, Beer Beef Chili, and this yummy – Beer Basil Bread! I didn’t realize it was from Real Simple at the [...]

That’s what she said…. ok, ok, i need to grow up! My co-worker/client said he had zucchini to get rid of, me being all about the veggies, said, hook me up. Of course he brings in three 8 pound ginormous zucchinis on the day i ride my bike. Jesu-cristo… I swear i lost a couple [...]

I made this for the girls craft weekend in may, and have been hanging onto the recipe debating if it was worthy of keeping. For our desert for chick flick night i decided to make it again. And, am i glad i did! Came out amazing!And headed the warning of others to put foil in [...]

Found this little ditty on Stephanie Dae’s site. I had some stew meat that i needed to do something with, and beef bourgenese(sp?) was out of the question – not enough time… 365 crock pot to the rescue! This will be a keeper for making a batch of lunches for me! Hubby was luke warm [...]

The final appetizer from my chick flick night! This one i’m not sold on. I of course used fake crab – ain’t no way i’m using the good stuff if i’m going to cover it in creamy stuff! It could have been the hot sauce i chose to use – Slap Ya Mama Hot Sauce [...]

Another items on my chick flight night was something that i have been meaning to make for years. I wish i had made it soon cause i consider it to be a keeper and better than my other humuses that are currently in my rotation! I was completely surprised as how amazing this was with [...]

Had a girls night when the hubby was away, we started out with the idea of movie and a pizza and then… I started looking at things to make! I ended up with 3 appetizers, 1 main dish and a re-do of a desert! This was the first one i found and knew i had [...]