Beer Bread

This recipe is one of the easiest, tastiest, and most versatile recipes I have ever used. You should already have the ingredients as pantry staples, and if you have beer you are one hour from warm, buttery beer bread.

Now you may ask, what beer is best? Well you can start with a basic lager, I liked to use a nut brown ale until one day I had a chocolate porter I decided to use in the recipe. The results where fantastic! So from there the ideas started to flow I made Irish beer bread, cheddar jalapeño, maple bacon. With all the styles and flavors of really good quality beer available the only limit is your imagination.

Beer bread
Makes 1 loaf

3 cups sifted flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar
12 oz beer
1/4 cup salted butter melted

Preheat oven to 375
Mix dry ingredients together add beer mix pour mixture into sprayed loaf pan pour melted butter over mixture bake 1 hour in conventional oven or 45 minuets in convection oven.

Buffalo Chicken Chili

1 diced red pepper
1 large yellow onion diced
2 stalks celery diced
2 T oil
2 T chopped garlic
1 T oil
2 # ground chicken or turkey
2 c chicken broth
1 can kidney beans drained and rinsed
1 can cannellini beans drained and rinsed
1 15 oz can crushed tomatoes
1 15 oz can tomato sauce
1 6 oz can tomato paste
1/2 cup franks hot sauce
1 t salt
1 t pepper
3-4 T powder butter flavoring for popcorn or to taste
Crumbled blue cheese
Frito corn chips

Add first 5 ingredients to pot sauté until softened
In separate pan sauté next 2 ingredients until cooked trough, drain off any fat left over in pan. Add meat to vegetables stir in next 10 ingredients simmer for 15 minutes. To serve garnish with Fritos and crumbled blue cheese.