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With St. Patrick's Day looming, let's whip up some champ, a rich and rustic Irish dish of mashed potatoes flecked with scallions and topped with butter. It couldn't be simpler, but as always, the devil is in the details. Let's start with a champ primer. The dish is a relative of the...

It's one of the most pervasive of culinary cliches — the exploding pressure cooker. And thanks to it, all manner of otherwise adept home cooks fearfully retreat from this kitchen workhorse. Except that it's a fear justified only if you are using a pressure cooker manufactured decades...

BY STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazette.com -

With beer names such as Java Dragon Porter, Roasted Ogre and Gnomish Beer Goggles, Storybook Brewing seems like a natural for the Ren-fest circuit. It could have been Kilhaven, the name owner and brewer Pete Kilman initially favored for his brewery, which opened in November in...

Here's a cocktail in honor of St. Patrick's Day. But you're going to have to cut me some slack. Why? Because I know what you're expecting. Any cocktail for this holiday should include either Guinness beer or Irish whiskey, right? Logically, that makes sense. But my whiskey of choice...

By ALISON LADMAN The Associated Press -

Not so long ago there really was only one way to eat Brussels sprouts. It involved boiling the sprouts into oblivion. Once they were reduced to near mush, you'd mound them on your plate, maybe add some butter and salt. You'd then gag down a few bites on the premise that they were...

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BREW CALENDAR Mondays Brewers Day Off - Home and commercial brewers receive 30 percent off and qualify for a $50 Old West Home Brew Supply gift certificate, 5-8 p.m., Green Man Taproom and Beer Garden, 320 S. Weber St.; 237-2711, drink@greenmantaps.com. Mondays-Sundays Great...

By Teresa J. Farney teresa.farney@gazette.com -

A new cookbook is taking soup recipes where others haven't gone: scaling them back to create mini servings for feeding smaller households. An empty nest served as the inspiration for Joanna Pruess' latest cookbook, "Soup for Two - Small-Batch Recipes for One, Two or a Few." "I love...

Chicken and dumplings is a wonderfully simple, deliciously comforting dish — a thick, meaty stew bubbling away beneath a patchwork of moist, pillowy dumplings. So we decided to channel that comfort for a dish suited for St. Patrick's Day. Taking inspiration from classic Irish...

By ELIZABETH KARMEL The Associated Press -

One of my favorite recipes is grilled zucchini ribbons. I first used them to spruce up a grilled Greek-style pizza. Initially, I wasn't sure the thin ribbons would hold up to the heat of the grill. But not only did the zucchini grill perfectly and develop a beautiful ladder of grill...