Beer Bread with Raisins and Walnuts

Beer bread isn’t really the first thing I might think of making. In fact, as I was mixing up a batch last night I wondered what I was doing baking bread when we had two loaves in the bread basket and 8 grocery bags of apples and pears that need preserving (please post your [...]

Homemade Vermouth

Several months ago I had to drop off some equipment at a colleague’s house not far from where I live in Long Beach. It was late in the afternoon when I arrived, and after transferring the goods into my co-worker’s truck, he and his wife invited me to join them on their poolside patio [...]