LouieNep Food

Take any kind of meat you want to use, and for extra flavor maybe some bacon or sausage. In a large saucepan, melt some butter with some extra virgin olive oil. Throw in your meat, and let it sizzle for a bit- until it starts sweating.

When you’re sure the pan is quite hot enough, pour in at least a bottle of beer. Bring to a boil, and simmer. Let the beer evaporate, and once there’s nothing but oil left in the pan, sprinkle with some salt and pepper, and add about a half a cup of sour cream.

Stir until smooth and hot. Serve!

Choose a beer you enjoy drinking… the flavor of the beer will make a difference in creating your sauce. A bitter beer will give you a stronger hops, malt and yeast flavor; whereas a lighter beer can result in a sweeter sauce.

My wife has been reminiscing non-stop about her favorite dish at her dad’s old restaurant: chicken breasts stuffed with cheese, topped with a creamy sauce.

Because I’m such a great husband (ahem), I thought I’d give it a shot for dinner tonight, based only on what I understood from her description.
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One of our favorite things to do is filling out this small blackboard in our kitchen with our daily menu.

A gift from my mother-in-law, we had the board painted the same color as our walls- but now that we’ve seen Not Just Blackboard we want to start a collection.

So we’re back. Got married. Moved house. Learned the joys of smoked food. We’ve been keeping an offline (read: written by hand in a notebook!) kitchen journal, so I’ll be sharing entries from that with you soon.

Oh, and since we lost the domain name, this is no longer DailyChef: it’s louienep/food.