Healthy Spirits: Lost Abbey Mo Betta Bretta

Now in stock!

1. Sierra Nevada+ Russian River Collaboration: BRUX

2. Sierra Hoptimum 4 packs

3. Ballast Point Double Dorado

4. Dogfish Head Namaste 750ml

5. Deschutes Hop in the Dark

6. Speakeasy Vendetta IPA

7. Alaskan Raspberry Wheat

8. Ninkasi Radiant Ale

9. Lost Abbey Angel's Share (Bourbon Barrel Aged)

cheers,

dave hauslein

beer manager

415-255-0610

Flour Less Chocolate {Garbanzo Bean} Cake

Today was a great day.... in a completely and utterly exhausting sort of way. In fact, if I had time to think about it, most every day seems to end up that way. Especially lately, the kids are out of school for the summer and it is hot here, damn HOT. The poor little bugs are cooped up in the house most of the day unless they are swimming or I can come up with somewhere cheap, cool and fun to take them. Also,  I've been working more than usual at the hospital because people are on vacation and want the surgery that they've been putting off for months or years done N.O.W. All of a sudden everything is an emergency. This means less time to get every day things done and even less time to entertain the kids.

4 very hot, extremely bored, cooped up kids   =   NOTHING GOOD.   Complete madness I tell you.

It also makes for one  very  scatter brained and irritated mommy.


*Cue me to enter the picture with my unkempt hair and unpainted toe nails dragging my tired,  out-of-shape-B.U.T.T.  into the embarrassingly neglected house. 

Case and point:

I made this cake weeks ago for a friend of mines birthday who has a severe gluten intolerance and have been trying since then in vain to get a post and recipe up on my blog. I've sat down at least 9 times this evening alone trying to edit pictures and write something articulate and witty or  at least  legible and coherent and am quickly coming to the conclusion that smart, funny and easy are things of the past for me. Replaced with loud, messy and bewildered.

Flour- Less Chocolate Garbanzo Bean Cake

Like I said, at least it was a good day. We went to the MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) in Phoenix and had an amazing time! It was far more beautiful and grand than I thought it would be. I could definitely spend my summer there. Even the little ones had a good time and enjoyed listening to all of the different music from around the world.

Mona Claire enjoying a musical selection from Germany and the costumes from Africa.

Most flour less cakes have an exorbitant amount of eggs in them which is fine in moderation I suppose but wanted a healthier option for an every day sort of cake. I searched high and low and found this recipe which sounded too good to be true but in fact was perfect. I love garbanzo beans and all of their healthy benefits but in a cake?  I chose not to tell that tid bit of information to my unsuspecting co-workers. 

Ingredients 

• 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

• 1 (19 ounce) can garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained

• 4 eggs

• 1 teaspoon real vanilla

• 3/4 cup turbinado sugar

• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

• 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar for dusting

Directions 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch round cake pan.Place the chocolate chips into a microwave-safe bowl. Cook in the microwave for about 2 minutes, stirring every 20 seconds after the first minute, until chocolate is melted and smooth. If you have a powerful microwave, reduce the power to 50 percent.Combine the beans and eggs in the bowl of a food processor. Process until smooth. Add the sugar and the baking powder, and pulse to blend. Pour in the melted chocolate and blend until smooth, scraping down the corners to make sure chocolate is completely mixed. Transfer the batter to the prepared cake pan.Bake for 40 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate. Dust with confectioners' sugar just before serving.

Be Merry and EAT CAKE!

Linked to:

Tasty Tuesday's
Just another Meatless Monday

Healthy Spirits: New Arrivals

1. Stone Smoked Porter with Vanilla Bean

2. Stone Smoked Porter with Chipotle Peppers

Healthy Spirits: New Arrivals

1. Bruery 4th Anniversary: 100% Barrel Aged FRUET (Limit 1 per customer)

2. Hanssens Kriek 375ml

3. Prof. Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse

4. Thornbridge Hall Jaipur

5. Maui/Jolly Pumpkin Sobrehumano Palena Red Ale cans

6. Marin Brewing White Knuckle Double IPA

7. Ballast Point Sculpin 6 packs

8. Glazen Toren Saison D'Erpe Mere glassware

9. Gavroche French Red Ale

10. Weihenstephaner Pilsner

cheers,

dave hauslein
beer manager
415-255-0610

Beer Cheeses: Frumage Baladin, Chimay and Belgian Kriek Beer Cheese!

Hey all,

If your like us you love beer and cheese. Well several producers have made it even easier to get our beer and cheese fix on by combining the two. First we have the tried and true Chimay cheese, which is made by the trappist monks and washed in Chimay beer. They've been making this traditional wash rind cheese since 1876. Next we have a special Belgian kriek beer cheese, which is made from cows milk and washed with kriek beer. The paste is a beautiful mild white cheese with a subtle sweetness and slight hint of cherries. Our newest beer cheese comes from Italy and is called Frumage Baladin. They use raw cows milk, thistle rennet and then wash it in birra baladin. To foster even more of a connection with the base beer they throw some spent mash from a running of baladin inside the cheese, leaving the paste speckled with butterscotch colored flecks of heaven. You want these:

-Chimay Biere Cheese
-Belgian Kriek Beer Cheese
-Frumage Baladin

Cheers!

Nate

Healthy Spirits: New Arrivals

1. Allagash Victor (Belgian ale w/red wine grapes)

2. Allagash Victoria (Belgian ale w/white wine grapes)