Friday, October 29, 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Beer and Carving

Since our last post, we have been talking non-stop amongst ourselves about different pumpkin beers. So we decided to stop talking and start tasting.

We threw ourselves a little party and carved some pumpkins while we drank/learned about different pumpkin beer.

Below are the results...
of the pumpkin carving...

aaand the beers we drank...
We tried (from the left) Magic Hat Hex (not a pumpkin...), Fisherman's Imperial Pumpkin Stout, Shipyard Pumpkinhead, Dogfish Head Punkin Ale and Blue Point Brewing Company Pumpkin Ale.

Hopefully we open in fall so we can make our pumpkin beer sauce!

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Oktober Flavors

Fall is one of my favorite seasons because of all the flavors associated with it- pumpkin, spiced apple, nutmeg, cinnamon... And as such, it has got me to brainstorm how we can use those amazing flavors to make special fall sauces for Saus. (Since we will be having weekly special sauces we constantly need to brainstorm so we don't run out.) Here are some of my ideas for autumn sauces... if we get open in time!

Spiced applesauce (applesaus?!)- made with freshly picked apples (maybe the Saus team could even go to an orchard and pick them ourselves, instead of just calling up our supplier and ordering local apples. Field trip!) Any ideas on favorite apple varieties? I think this would be great on our waffles (maybe even the frites...)

We already have a Cheddar Duvel sauce. It would be fun to substitute it with a fall variation... Cheddar Pumpkin Beer. Renee's favorite pumpkin beer is by Shipyard. However, I recently tried Pumpking, which could be great. Or, instead of temporarily replacing the Cheddar Duvel with a pumpkin beer, we could make a whole new beer sauce recipe. Ideas?

Anyway, I'm "falling" in love with fall flavors. Yeah.. I know. I had to go there.

Any other fall flavors I missed that you love?