I’m sure you need a last-minute dish to bring to a New Year’s party (oh wait, most people are more prepared than I am??) so I present you with one of my favorite ridiculously easy recipes: beer cheese dip:
Ingredients:
2 8-oz. packages cream cheese
2c. shredded cheddar cheese (sharp is better!)
1c. beer
1 package ranch dressing mix
Instructions:
Mix.
That is seriously all. It’s like heaven on a cracker.
I really dislike the taste of beer whilst drinking it, but being from Wisconsin I’m morally obligated to ingest a certain quantity each year. Luckily, we have a wide variety of delicious foods that contain our most famous beverage: beer brats, beer cheese soup, beer battered cheese curds (I sense a theme here)… and beer bread!
This is one of the simplest recipes I know, and it’s super delicious – especially hot. I used a bottle of Matt’s home-brewed honeybee ale – it’s SO good with honey butter.
Preheat the oven to 350?.
3 c Flour (sifted)
3 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Salt
(OR 3 c Self-Rising Flour – in which case, leave out the baking powder and salt)
1/4 c Sugar
12 oz (one can or bottle) Beer
1/4 c melted butter
Mix dry ingredients, then stir in beer. Pour into greased breadpan.
Pour melted butter on dough; bake for 1 hour.
Take out of pan and let cool for 10-15 minutes before slicing.
If you know of any other good beer-inclusive recipes, let me know!
Woo! We’re getting our oil today! That means we can stop rationing the 40 gallons we had in our tank and actually turn on the heat!
So I made some bread yesterday from the fabulous book, Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. I borrowed it from the library, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to buy it. Its fabulous. They don’t lie when they say 5 minutes a day.
Yum! You can’t taste the pumpkin much- its very subtle. But I put some butter and black beans on it today, and it was amazing. Yeah, black beans. I eat them all the time.
Can I just say that I just tripped on my computer cable and the whole thing flew onto the floor, dislodging the screen and smashing the power cable? I just got finished sending an email that said “My iBook is 5 years old, and it’s still kickin’. I almost wish it would bite the dust so I could get a shiny new one!” I guess you have to be careful what you wish for.
