The summer of beer

A coworker had a birthday this week, and she asked me to make Irish Car Bomb cupcakes. I did that, but that means I have five more bottles of Guinness extra stout, and I'm more of a pale-ale kind of gal. So, I googled Guinness recipes, and we'll be trying some here. Maybe there will meatloaf, braised short ribs or beer chicken. We'll see what catches my fancy. I love Guinness Irish Stew, but it's not really the right weather for that. If you have any good recipes for extra stout beer, let me know. I saw a few bread recipes, which would give me an excuse to use that bread machine that I never use. Also, in slightly less exciting news, the producer of my Internet cooking show has moved back to Texas. So that sucks, but I will try to take more pictures so this does not continue to be the most boring blog in the history of the Internet.

Developments

So, I have this friend who is big into social media and new media (unlike me, who's into being a print-journalist dinosaur who barely has a blog) and she recently told me that I needed to have an Internet cooking show.

I know I am funny, but am I strangers-watching-me-on-the-Internet-and-being-entertained funny?

Plus, I'd have to clean my kitchen.

However, today I decided to search for a recipe to make baked beans in the crock pot (yes, I know they are not really baked if you make them in the crock pot) to take to a cook out this weekend.

My normal go-to recipe site friends at Betty Crocker actually had a recipe that was not much more than opening up some canned beans, plopping them in the crock pot and adding a few condiments.

And there was a video for it. There was a video for dumping canned beans into a crock pot and cooking them all day.

I am going to watch some Internet cooking shows to see how it all works (or maybe doesn't work), but I figure whatever video I make will be better than dumping canned beans in a crock pot.

Stay tuned.