Bluebeerry Pancakes

I love blueberry beer. Sweetwater Blue was my first "craft" beer I started drinking and actually liked. While walking around the liquor store yesterday, I found this beer by Sea Dog. Wild Blueberry! That sounds like it would go great in pancakes. Using a basic pancake recipe, I substituted the milk for beer.

  This beer has a more blueberry taste then Sweetwater Blue, but any fruity wheat will do.

All the ingredients ready to go!

A little powdered sugar on top and syrup on the side and breakfast is ready!


Bluebeerry Pancakes

• 1 1/4 cup Flour Shifted
• 1/4 cup Sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 1 Egg (I used egg substitute)
• 1 cup Blueberry Flavored Beer (or any fruit flavor. Strawberry would be good too)
• 2 Tablespoons Melted Butter

1. Mix together Flour, Sugar, Baking Powder, and Salt. 
2. To dry ingredients, add butter, egg, and beer. Pour beer in slowly to prevent extra foam. 
3. Heat a skillet to medium high heat.
4. Spray pan with cooking spray and add 1/4 cup of batter to pan. 
5. Pancakes are ready to flip bottom is golden brown. 
6. Serve with syrup and powdered sugar. 

                                 Makes 10 servings 

Bluebeerry Syrup

• 1/2 cup Syrup (I use sugar free syrup but any syrup will do)
• 2 tablespoons Beer

1. Combined ingredients and warm in microwave for 30 seconds.

Calories
One Serving: One Pancake and 1/4 cup Syrup mixture.
One Pancake 100 calories
1/4 cup Syrup 37 calories

Huck's Own Honey Orange Wheat Cookies

I used Hucklebuck Brewing Company Beer (Huck's new homemade beer) to make a glaze for these cookies. The recipe for the cookies came from the lid of the Quaker Oats container. (The only cookie recipe I have/use) I added a few extra ingredients to the dough and glazed them with the reduced beer.

Buck's Brew. No labels for the bottles yet :(

Reducing the beer. This was right before it burned, so do not walk away. It only takes a few minutes and if it becomes to dark START OVER! Burnt beer does not taste well. Trust me!

Not the best plate to use when taking a picture of Orange glazed cookies. I promise the pictures will get better!!


Huck's Own Honey Orange Oatmeal Cookies

• 1 stick plus 6 Tbsp Butter 
• 3/4 cup firmly packed Brown Sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 1 1/2 cup AP Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1 teaspoon ground Cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups uncooked Oats
• 1/2 cup Pecans (or any nut)
• 1/2 cup Toffee Bits

1. Heat oven to 350. In large bowl, beat butter and sugars.
2. Add eggs and vanilla. 
3. Combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt together. 
4. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture in a few batches. 
5. Add oats, nuts, and toffee. 
6. Drop dough onto ungreased cookie sheet.
7. Bake 8-10 minutes. (Huck likes his cookies crispier, so I cook his for 13-15 minutes. I like mine gooey, so I cook them for 6-8 minutes.)

Wheat Beer Glaze

Reduce any fruity wheat beer over medium heat until it becomes thick. Drizzle beer over warm cookies and serve.

My Beer Picnic

Maybe I over did it with the beer with this one. Everything has beer in it :) 

Smoked Boston Butt

• Boston Butt
• 1 Bottle Oak Aged Coffee Stout (I used Huck's homemade Beer but any coffee stout will work)
• Favorite Spice Blend (I used my own but did not messure ingredients :( Sorry)  

1. Rub dry spices on meat and pour beer over meat. Marinate for 12-24 hours turning in beer a few times. 
2. Prep Smoker. If you don't have a smoker, you can use a slow cooker.
3. Place meat on smoker. 
4. Using leftover marinate, reduce over medium heat and brush on meat ever 1-2 hours.  
5. Cook meat 1 1/2 hours per pound. 
6. Let meat rest before slicing.

 
Beerbecue Baked Beans

• 5 Slices Uncooked Bacon
• 1 Green Pepper-Diced
• 1/2 Onion-Diced
• 1 Can Pork and Beans 
• 1 1/2 cups Beer (I used Hopsecutisner IPA for the strong flavor.)
• 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 cup Ketchup

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Slice bacon and cook until crisp. Drain on paper towel. 
3. Remove all but one tablespoon bacon fat from pan, and cook pepper and onions until soft.
4. Stir in Pork and Beans, Ketchup, Beer, and Brown Sugar and cooked on low heat for 20 minutes. 
5. Spray casserole dish with cooking spray and place bean mixture in dish. 
6. Bake 50 minutes.

 We like Terrapin!!

German Potato Salad
This recipe was Oma approved :) And was not an original; I found it in a cook book but omitted and added a few things.

• 6-8 Potatoes- peeled and diced
• 4 Slices Uncooked Bacon
• 1/2 Medium Onion
• 1 Garlic Clove
• 2 Tbsp Flour
• 1 Tbsp Whole Grain Mustard
• 1 cup Beer (I used a lager)
• 3 Tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar

1. Cook Potatoes until tender in boiling salted water and drain. 
2. Slice bacon and cook in a pan until crisp. Drain on paper towel. 
3. Add onions and garlic to pan in bacon fat and cook until tender. 
4. Mix beer, vinegar and mustard together.
5. Add 2 Tbsp flour and allow to cook for a minute mixing with onion, garlic, and bacon fat. 
6. Add beer mixture to pan whisking to prevent lumps stirring until thick
7. Mix potatoes and beer mixture right before serving. 

This recipe should be served warm.  

Beer mixture.

Beerbecue Sauce

• 1 cup Ketcup
• 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 cup Beer (I used the Hopsecutioner again)
• 1/4 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
• 1 Tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
• 1/4 Onion- Fine Dice

1. Combined ingredients and cook until sauce starts to thicken.