Hosted a fun bourbon tasting the other night, where we experimented with smoking cheese, tofu, and shrimp alongside two different sausages. Fresh bread and homemade Kansas City bbq sauce as base and topper, and a delicious brown butter crumble à la mode that really brought the caramel and buttery notes out of the bourbon thanks to Prairie North’s master baker, ASB!
Willett Distillery was one of our favorite discoveries during our trip to Louisville last week. I used their Old Bardstown Bourbon, which is a blend of their bourbon line, to mix up these riffs on the Seelbach Hotel’s Minted Gold. I couldn’t find a recipe online, so used this approximation: 50 ml bourbon, 20 ml apple juice, 1 tsp honey simple syrup, 80 ml ginger beer, mint. Next time I think I will bump up the honey simple syrup a bit and add more mint. Wintertime mint stash here in the north has been pretty meagre so I was being stingy on this round, but it really needs more of a fresh hit.
And that, my friends, is my epic birthday cake fail! I was trying to bake a chocolate bundt cake tonight in celebration of Dr. B’s birthday. But when I went to turn it out onto the cooling rack, the whole thing collapsed into the puddle of chocolate shards you see before you. Not sure what I did but it was pretty hilarious. Still tasted good with a snifter of bourbon regardless!
Back from traveling over feast week, and all I am craving is vegetable soup after a week of continuous (delicious) feasting! More on that to come, but for now, a simple vegan veggie soup for a snowy day.
Happy Feast Week!
Deep fry night, with panko-crusted cod and french fries. We double dipped the fish so the coating was super crunchy. ‘Twas time consuming because we had to wait for the oil to come back to temperature between batches, so all-told it probably took about 90 minutes start-to-finish, but the results were worth it!
I was late to the avocado toast game but now I can see why people are so obsessed with it. This morning’s version was topped with tomato and kalamata olives on top of homemade bread.
Ash and Prairie 