Penelahpe's and Monday Night Blend Perfectly

I love cooking with beer, for real.  From sweet to savory.  I learned about cooking, poaching fruit in alcohol from Chef Joel from TEASPACE (lil five points hidden treasure circa 2007).  Sake poached Apple dumplings.  

Then the awesome and talented Chef Scotly gave me creative control on the Ormsby's dessert menu and we did SweetWater 420 poach apple dumpling stuffing with pecan streusle.  

So now the  2015-2016 food adventures bring me to the Drafty Trash Talk  Apple Pies.  I made 75 min pies from a great cause TrashWater (they make sure people in rural international spaces get clean water).  My not so secret ingredient is, guess? Go ahead I'll wait.....you are correct Monday Night Draft Kilt Scotish Ale and its flavor is worth every word.  The beauty of this Scotish Ale is not heavy and has coffee, malt, caramelized sugar,  would go great with ice cream and its the bomb with apples and cherries and brown sugar.   Say it loud "yummy!!"

The Crust is all Martha Stewart.  I'm saying , its just a good crust. 

Okay for la receta: 

Pre heat oven 350

cooking time 

20 min  on stove top

20 in oven

5 lbs.  of  golden delicious apples (preference)

1 C   Brown Sugar

1 bottle Monday Night Drafty Kilt

1 C frozen sweet cherries

3 Tsp Cinnamon

Peel and slice apples thin. Place in bowl of water and lemon juice to prevent browning until finished with all apples 

Dissolve the brown sugar in a large pot. How? add enough water just to wet the sugar. Turn stove top on med heat. 

Once the sugar is dissolved gradually add the  apples and the cherries and cinnamon.  DONT worry the apples will make their own liquid.  

Here's the fun part:

Once the apples begin to break down add your beer.

Continue to stir and taste and stir and taste (if you like super sweet allow the beer and apples to cook down first- you might be pleasantly surprised)

Now it is important to know that even though the alcohol will cook out your final product will taste like this wonderful craft beer.

Let the apple mixture cook until the apples are red and soft and tender about 20 Min

Let the apples cool before filling in your pies.

I did mini pies per the photos posted but please by all means make your pie as your want and make sure you blonde bake your crusts.

 Streusel 

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, cold butter

1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

2/3 cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

a pinch of Cardamon 

Add all in a food processor and pulse until crumbs

cover the top of pie/pies

Bake pie/pies at 350 until the edges of crust and streusel are golden brown and the juice from the apples and cherries is bubbling out. 

Lemongrass vegetable soup, penelahpe's style

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As hungry and exited guests enjoyed the Fulton County Arts Council Brunch they opened the crock pot holding the soup, smelled it looked and ask, 'What's this?"  I answered,"Lemongrass vegetable soup."   I received some odd looks and comments,  but the power of persuasion and a curious appetite lead to an empty crock pot.

Lets begin

4 Lemongrass stalks

1knuckle of Ginger

                    2 limes, roll them before juicing

2tablespoons Chili paste

Teriyaki sauce ( the liquid)   

2 small bags 12-16 oz of frozen Asian blend with water chestnuts, baby corn ect vegetable 

Salt, Pepper, granulated garlic power,  Cilantro

Place a large pot on stove add 8 cups of water bring to a boil

                    1. Cut the bottom 1/2 in off the lemongrass, 
                      Bruise the lemongrass with the butt of a knife and shop lemongrass until tiny pieces.

                    2. Peel and small dice ginger ( think about whether or to you want big chunks of ginger    
                        and  lemongrass in your soup-- the small the better)

                    3. Add lime juice,  lemongrass and ginger to boiling water-- let boil about 5-8 min
                       Taste your broth- you should taste the lemongrass, the ginger and a hint of the lime    
                        juice
                    4. Now add the rest of the ingredients:  chili paste, Teriyaki sauce and frozen vegetables
                    5. Taste and add salt and black
                    6. Turn on low and let simmer about 30-45 min.
                    7. Add about a table spoon of chopcilantro when finished.

Enjoy the soup and remember use this recipe as your base and build with other flavors: green curry, shrimp, fish sauce, caramelized onions, roasted garlic...... send me you pics and share your experience.
Peace.

Get your Double Chocolate Vegan Cake infused with Green Tea!

Let's talk about this...Double chocolate vegan cake infused with green tea.

This one has sweet potato in the icing to riching ( i made that word up) aka enrich the flavor of it more. And sweet potato between the layers of chocolate love with six layers of goodness.

This cake is available year round from www.Penelahpes.com

The back story, this original recipe is available in th Grit cookbook.  My training at TeaSpace introduced me to tea infused desserts over all, thanks Chef Joel. So the penelahpe's take away is we do flavored Cakes, hazelnut, mint, orange, green tea, cinnamon ..... There are no limitations.....