Outpost 505

Among the best beers in the world, and enjoyed by three of my favorite beer nerds this weekend. It was soooo good to have the dudes here, and I can’t wait to see them again in DC in a few weeks. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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How we spent our evening: And this was in addition to the nearly 5 dozen pretzels from this morning’s bakefest (thanks for the post, Olivia)!  All credit for these sweets goes to Juli – though we did contribute our sensational decorating skills.  I tried my hand at flooding, Shane made creepy faces, Juli made an amazing [...]

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I woke up this morning with pancakes on the brain.  Specifically, this pancake, which I read about the other week on Food 52. Before I tell you about the pancake, however, let me tell you about two things that led to the making of the pancake. First, there’s Food 52, which I started reading after [...]

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2006: 14 friends, 1 guest dog, 1 cat, 1 arm in a cast, 1 dropped cutting board, 2 sneaky surprise guests. Photo by Keem 2007: 2 friends from Massachusetts and 1 from Illinois brave horrible holiday traffic to travel to DC, visit the zoo, play trains, and talk about DRUNK BEES. 2008: Day after Thanksgiving [...]

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Back in the day, a very long time before I knew Shane, he was really into electronic music.  I’m not sure if his devotion to electronic music reached the same heights as my devotion to a certain Canadian band, but I do know that he was similarly involved in online communities related to his musical [...]

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Another really lovely night of food and conversation but no photos! While there were many delightful things to look forward to on this trip, one of the highlights for me was getting to have dinner with two of my college friends, Blaze and Heather.  We were all students at Rockford College, but didn’t meet until [...]

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Our second day in San Francisco was the only one with a pre-planned agenda: lunch with my friend Erin Fae, then dinner with friends from college. Fearing the vagaries of changing hotels and public transit in a new city, I had planned our day down to departure times – which paradoxically made having a relaxing [...]

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I am so very disappointed that my photos from tonight’s dinner didn’t turn out.  Janet, among others, has been on me for months to improve my use of our DSLR, and tonight’s photos illustrate her point – I have a great deal to learn and, perhaps more importantly, remember. Since I have no usable photos, [...]

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Who would’ve thought you could go from this: to this: with really not THAT much effort? OK, it did involve ten minutes of kneading. And also clearing out my fridge so that 2 1/2 dozen bagels could do their thing: 2 minutes boiling in the pot, a bit of an egg wash, and some expert [...]

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Photo by bichromephoto I’ll be honest – I spent most of today looking forward to cocktails at the second meeting of the Knights of the West Side. I even did a little research as to what constitutes a classic cocktail, mostly to determine whether or not I should be able to order a Vesper martini. [...]

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