Bottoms Up Down Under

I love a delicious beer even more than I love wearing a nice pair of strappy heels. Until a recent vacation in Australia, I never really felt like my love for beer was any more unusual than my penchant for strappy shoes. 

My family uses our Irish ancestry as a ready excuse to be zealous about our beer drinking. In fact, while my home-brewing dad discourages me from changing my car engine oil (why would I want to get my hands dirty?), he has encouraged my hearty drinking of good beer. So it never occurred to me that my beer drinking might actually be a challenge to my womanhood (oh, yes, I am a woman).

I know beer has traditionally been associated with men and manly things, like cavernous rooms with overstuffed black leather couches, big screen TV’s, and lots of corn chips and yelling. But I thought we had evolved to a beer drinking that could be done out in the open, by both men and women, while having real meals

There was a time in my life when I like so many others out there would drive down to one of my local "Italian" restaurants when I was in the mood for one of my favorite dishes, Chicken Marsala.  Now I've had this dish hundreds of times but I've only had it done well maybe a handful of times so you can imagine my frustration.  Well all this frustration became more than I could take and being the resourceful I guy I am I decided to break the cycle of disappointing Marsala experiences and create a version of my own, one that would live up to my lofty expectations.

Now there are a lot of things I love about this recipe.  Right up front its easy, pretty quick to prepare and actually quite cheap to make but it delivers a big plate full of hearty flavors that can only be matched by something like homemade beef stew.  I think if you make this dish this weekend you'll find that it becomes one of your favorites and may even get a slot on the weekly

I don't know about you but when fall rolls around I tend to crave spicy, hearty soups, there's really nothing better on a cold fall night than to sit down to a big bowl of steamy goodness.  It's with this in mind that I have started to develop a line of recipes that everyone can enjoy especially with an frosty craft beer.

The first recipe in the series is my Fire Roasted White Chili with Chicken which is one of my all time favorites and is very healthy and full flavored. Here's what you will need to get this recipe started.

Ingredients

3 Skin on Chicken Breast       
1 Tbls Ground Cumin
2 Jalapenos Chiles       
11/2 Tsp Ground Coriander   
2 Anaheim Chiles