Kimchi.

Decided some time ago to start making my own kimchi, which is about as essential as rice. If there is no other banchan, kimchi is the very least to have. The great thing about kimchi is that there are different types of kimchi for all of the seasons.

Everyone does theirs a little differently to taste, but the basics are napa, cut and salted and drained, then pitched with ground red pepper, sugar, green onions, lots of garlic. I've seen fish sauce and other vegetables included. A few days sitting out, covered, will let it ferment.

Cottage Pie.

Decided to try a different spin on cottage pie, using sliced potatoes on top instead of mashed potatoes, mainly because I could never get a good crust on my mashed potatoes. Turned out pretty well. The sliced potatoes roast up better and lets more of the gravy through to glaze over the top.

Empire IPA.

A solid, localish (Syracuse) IPA from Empire.

Craft Beer Exchange.

Testing some stupidness in Bloggers draft and publishing date system. A whole bunch of stuff is going to get pushed without pictures for a while, I guess.

Craft Beer Exchange is a sweet, new (at time of draft) program that lets me buy things like Stone IPA on draft at a frickin' gas station. AWESOME. Some gas stations around the area are now equipped with 6-12 taps where you can get growlers filled with craft beers, which is a really cool idea. It gets craft beer a whole lot more visibility and brings more options for my growler fills.

Extreme Beer Fest.

I have a billion posts in draft after this that I haven't pushed because this one is drafting. Short story is that we went to Boston and drank amazing beers. One tasted and smelled like apple pie. Mind blown.

Long story and maybe pictures to follow.

Also, it would be cool if Blogger would not wipe out the draft date and fix the publish date to when the draft was actually started.