Beer Candied Bacon Bark....oh my!

OK, so my crush on the Beeroness is now complete! Beer Candied bacon, in chocolate bark? I can't think of a better treat for your next holiday get together, or homemade gift idea for the beer lover in your life!! Check this out, its simple, delicious and is sure to be a hit! Check out the Beeroness's complete write up on this recipe as well as additional holiday gift idea's for the beer lover from this amazing woman here......

Beer Candied Bacon Bark

Ingredients

• 6 strips thick sliced bacon
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 2 tbs stout beer
• pinch cayenne
• 10.5 wt oz dark chocolate (72% cacao content)
• ¼ cup pale ale beer
• 1/3 cup smoked almonds

 

Directions

Preheat oven the 350.

In a sauce pan over medium high heat, bring the brown sugar, stout and cayenne to boil, boil for one minute.

Place the bacon on a wire rack over a baking sheet. Brush the bacon on each side with sugar mixture.

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes, flip, re-brush with sugar mixture, bake for ten more minutes until bacon is a dark brown. Remove from oven, allow to cool. Bacon will harden as it cools. Chop the bacon once it has cooled.

In the top of a double boiler over gently simmering water add half the chocolate, make sure the heat isn’t too high or the chocolate will seize. Stir constantly until chocolate is almost melted. Slowly stir in the beer until well combined. Remove from heat. Stir in the remaining chocolate until melted and well combined. Stir in the smoked almonds.

Pour chocolate onto a baking sheet that has been covered with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Sprinkle with chopped bacon. Chill until set. Break into pieces.

 (you can check out my previous recipe for beer candied bacon bacon here....)

 

 

Another amazing recipe from this incrediable chef! If you ask me, she has, by far the best cooking with beer site on the web. Check out this, and all her great recipes at www.thebeeroness.com

 

Until next time

Bottoms up my friends

 

The Beer Czar

 

Stove Top Beer and Bacon Mac and Cheese....the Beeroness does it again!

The Beeroness (she's cute too!)

OK, if you are looking for great sites on cooking with beer, there is really only one site you need to check out, The Beeroness. She is without a doubt (at least in my opinion) the best beer cooking site/blog that I have seen. Her recipes are wide ranging from the simple, 5 ingredient recipes to the much more complex recipes that require  a decent knowledge of cooking techniques and more exotic ingredients. You can find recipes for apps, desserts, man dishes or sides using all styles of beer. I've posted several of her recipes on this site before, and well, every time I look on her site, I see about a dozen more recipes I want to post here. Sometimes I see one that I just have to post, and this is one such post.

 Beer, bacon and mac and cheese, 3 of my favorite things!! Its not only a delicious recipe, its SUPER easy. If you can bowl water and cook bacon, you can handle this one!




Check it out!

Ingredients

• 2 cups elbow macaroni 
• 4 strips of bacon, cut in half
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 egg
• 2/3 cup beer (pale ale, blonde, bock, and Hef work well, an IPA will give you a very strong beer flavor)
• 1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese (fresh grated, pre-shreaded has additives that prevents it from melting properly) 
• 2 tbs butter
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
• pinch cayenne pepper
• salt to taste

 

Directions

• In a large pot of boiling water, add the noodles and cook until just before done. Don't over-cook the noodles or this will end up mushy.
• Drain the pasta, return the pot to the stove and cook the bacon until crispy, remove from pot and allow to cool.
• Drain off bacon grease and return drained noodles to the pot.
• In a separate bowl, add the beer, egg and sour cream, beat until well combined.
• Add the butter and the beer mixture to the noodles and return to medium heat. Stir until the butter has melted.
• About 1/4 a cup at a time, add the cheese. Stir until cheese has melted before adding more.
• Add the spices and chopped bacon, stir.
 
Makes 4 entre sized portions.
For her entire article with this recipe, you can click here....
 
OK, it doesn't get much easier, or better then that now does it. Give it a shot and let me know what you thought of it!
 
 
Until next time
Bottoms up my friends!
 
The Beer Czar

Cooking with beer - Beer-Candied Bacon

I have posted this recipe before as part of a Fathers Day breakfast. I was actually asked to post it again on its own. So, here it is.....this look fantastic!

 

Beer-Candied Bacon

1 lb thick-cut, high quality bacon
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup + 2 tbsp beer ( I like to use a nice brown ale)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine brown sugar and beer in a small bowl, whisking well to form a thin syrup. Set aside.
Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place a wire cooling rack on top. Place the pieces of bacon on top of the rack, overlapping if necessary. Place in oven and cook for 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and brush one side of the bacon with the beer syrup. Flip, and coat the other side with the syrup as well. Return to oven and cook for 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and repeat process another time or two more, until bacon is crispy and browned, and you have used all the glaze.

Cool on wire rack for at least 1 hour before serving.

 

 

 

 

Until next time

Bottoms up my friends

 

The Beer Czar

Father's Day is coming, get Dad breakfast in bed, with BEER!!

Berliner Weiss Pancakes   (Draftmag)

OK, Father's Day is just around the corner. While it seems traditional to take Mom out for breakfast/brunch for Mother's Day, Father's Day is more about BBQ's. Why can't Dad enjoy a nice breakfast as well, one he would love, yet still maintain all the testosterone laden manliness we've come to expect from Father's Day? Well, now he can. Here are few breakfast ideas that feature beer in the recipe!!! What Dad wouldn't love that?
First off, check out this article in Draft Mag, with 5 breakfast recipes that feature beer! Everything from Berliner Weiss Pancakes, to biscuits and gravy made with Rauchbeir!!! Click the link below.

Draft Mag's Beer for Breakfast

Or, how about some bacon, with a side of beer, check out this recipe for Beer-Candied Bacon!!!

Beer-Candied Bacon

1 lb thick-cut, high quality bacon
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup + 2 tbsp beer

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine brown sugar and beer in a small bowl, whisking well to form a thin syrup. Set aside.
Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place a wire cooling rack on top. Place the pieces of bacon on top of the rack, overlapping if necessary. Place in oven and cook for 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and brush one side of the bacon with the beer syrup. Flip, and coat the other side with the syrup as well. Return to oven and cook for 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and repeat process another time or two more, until bacon is crispy and browned, and you have used all the glaze.

Cool on wire rack for at least 1 hour before serving.

Oh my god, does this sound just awesome!!!



So, to all you Dad's out there, I hope you have a great, and happy Father's Day. I will be spending the weekend camping in Sedona with my family!!

Until next time
Bottoms up my friends!

The Beer Czar