Every year since 1982 the Great American Beer Festival has given Coloradoans and visitors a chance to sample thousands of brews. I was lucky enough to attend a few years back, and I sampled my fair share. I also stood in the friggin’ long lines for the bathroom. You know you’ll be drinking great beer, but nothing prepares you for that sea of port-o-potties.
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I feel like Karen and Jack must’ve felt in Will & Grace. Remember when someone in the scene would say a seemingly innocent word that could easily be spun into a dirty word? Oh, how Karen and Jack would laugh.
Cheese ball.
(Withholding laughter.)
Tee hee.
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You know I love Mediterranean and Middle Eastern foods. The garlic, the tahini, and all that dipping and saucing makes it one of my most craved cuisines.
But pronouncing it, well, that’s a tough one for me. My Midwestern accent means there’s nothing sexy about me saying tzatziki.
Pronounced tsah-ZEE-kee, it is a cold sauce and can be eaten as a dip, too. For example, a little tzatiki on pita bread will satisfy the hungriest dip lover. I enjoy tzatiki most as a sauce over my gyro breakfast or atop a green salad.
I know Mexico and Spain have different cuisines, but when I made a Spanish tortilla I was at a loss for complementing the dish with a sauce. Every time I’ve eaten Spanish tortilla it was sans sauce, so I could’ve have just eaten it solo, but c’mon. Who do you think you’re talking to?
I am the Saucy Dipper. (more…)
I recently purchased the Cuisinart Smart Stick® Hand Blender and promised to write a review, but then I remembered…this is the first hand blender I’ve ever owned, so how can I write a review? I can, however, tell you how to use a hand blender effectively and how it really can take the place of a bulky, expensive food processor or blender in some cases. (more…)
Who wouldn’t want to kiss this?
Today is the only time I’ve ever worn bacon. I am forever changed.
We’re seeing a trend in bacon wearing. You can find bacon t-shirts, bacon earrings, bacon belts, and even bacon bras made from actual bacon or depicted bacon. People love the cured meat because everything tastes better with it and because of a handful of other fascinating facts that I talk about over Cooking with Caitlin. (more…)
Based on this picture you can probably guess that I made a Middle Eastern-themed meal big enough for 12 people, not two. I spent three hours in the kitchen cooking up hummus, baba ganoush, tzatziki sauce, falafal, and moussaka (with béchamel sauce).
My motivation for making this feast came in part from my urge to use my new immersion blender, part because I wanted to make one of the five mother sauces, and part because I’ve come across several eggplant recipes lately. Despite not liking eggplant in the past, I felt I needed to try again. Our tastes do change, and I figured now that I’m all of 31-years-old I needed to see if my tastes had matured.
Turns out I’m not that grown up yet. (more…)
Novice sauce maker. Dipstock hostess. Bacon lover. I am the Saucy Dipper.
