Eat Me Like One of Your French Girls

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Sage and Black IPA Chicken with Mushrooms and Crème Fraîche By Fontina Turner – Bacon & Legs I am always looking for inspiration in my cooking. Not just for the website, but for my everyday life. Believe it or not, I don’t typically cook shit for myself. I eat black …

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Honey Basil Ale Chicken & Goat Cheese Flatbread

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   By Fontina Turner – Bacon & Legs Ingredient-specific beers get me going. Especially when the brewers take such care in selecting their ingredients. When I tried Bison Beer’s Organic Honey Basil Ale, I knew I had to cook with it. I’ve been hammering out the recipe for a couple …

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Classy as Fudge

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By Fontina Turner – Bacon & Legs As a follow up to last week’s beer-candied orange peel recipe, I wanted to give you guys another chance to cook with the Southern Tier Choklat Oranj. While the candy is delicious on its own, I wanted to use it to enhance another recipe: orange fudge.

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Spam in a Snuggie

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By Fontina Turner – Bacon & Legs We all change. Our palettes develop. We become more refined. But I had this hunch that my palette does not think it’s too good for Spam. I think it’s one of those things where it gets a bad rep because it’s processed, packaged …

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Christmas Ale Stew

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  By Fontina Turner – Bacon & Legs As I write this column, the snow is falling outside my new place in the Cleve. I have moved from my beloved Philadelphia, where I have been for my entire adult life, back to my home state. While I am sad that …

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Go Home, Burger. You’re Drunk.

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By Fontina Turner – Bacon & Legs I guess you could call me a craft beer enthusiast… as in, I’m enthused about drinking delicious beers and lots of them. Not usually all in one setting, but occasionally I over-serve myself. Usually when this happens, I’m out at a bar. I …

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Pumpkin Spice Candied Bacon

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   By Fontina Turner – Bacon & Legs I completely wanted to make this as a joke. I love pumpkin spice, but it’s becoming so popular that the act of hating it is becoming even more popular. But… hot damn. Pumpkin spice candied bacon is autumn heaven in pork form. I used …

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