After months of empty promises, I finally bring you the post you’ve all been waiting for.
Butterbeer, Tudor Style. Yesssss.
The Tudors were an interesting culinary bunch. They ate lots of funny meats (badger, anyone?) and insisted that beaver was a fish so they could get around the “only eat fish on Fridays during Lent” thing. Inventive, [...]
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Recipe: Butterbeer Part 2, Tudor Style!
Posted in dessert, drinks, tagged beer, butter, butterbeer, cusine, harry, hogwarts, medieval, potter, rowling, tudor on March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recipe: Butterbeer! Part One.
Posted in drinks, recipes to impress, tagged harry potter, madame rosemerta, the three broomsticks, butterbeer, butter beer, butter, beer, madam, rosemerta on July 31, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Earlier in the week, a friend emailed me a link to a recipe for real, Tudor-style butterbeer. Apparently butterbeer is not just the stuff of Harry Potter culinary lore, but a real drink imbibed by real people with a real recipe to boot.
This brought to mind my high school days, when I would make faux [...]
Special “OMG It’s HOT” Duo: Recipe: Pico de Gallo and Margaritas
Posted in drinks, ethnic foods, snackies, tagged alcohol, cilantro, lime, mexican, onion, salsa, summer, tequila, tomato on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been ungodly hot in San Francisco the past few days. As a result, I haven’t felt like turning on the stove. Or the oven. Or anything that produces heat, really. I’ve subsisted on pico de gallo and margaritas.
Ok, that was a lie. But I am eating/drinking them right now, and I have to [...]



