Food & Alcohol Pairings

Delicious and nutritious Garlic Butter Steak Bites with Lemon Zucchini Noodles take only minutes to cook. After all steak bites are cooked, return them to the skillet with some of the butter and turn off the heat, moving the steak around constantly to coat the pieces in butter. In the same skillet over medium heat, add the remaining butter with the shallots and garlic, cooking for 3-5 minutes stirring often to prevent the garlic from burning. Add the zucchini noodles and basil ribbons to the skillet and stir constantly to warm through for about 1-2 minutes.

This Banana Dream Cake is like a fluffy banana bread, with a thick layer of frosting, laced with creamy peanut butter. This cake and frosting recipe combo was inspired one of my grandmother’s banana cakes she used to make with peanut butter frosting. It’s tasty, with no additives, made from real banana, and it’s gluten free! Add the mashed banana, vanilla extract and banana extract and mix with a hand mixer until light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes.

This Raspberry Moscow mule is a simple twist on the classic cocktail, made sugar free and keto friendly! We make a super simple sugar free raspberry simple syrup with fresh raspberries to sweeten this cocktail without the calories or sugar. Here’s the recipe and instructions for making this super simple sugar free raspberry simple syrup. Our raspberry mule just adds one simple twist, and it’s the addition of a homemade sugar free raspberry simple syrup.

This raspberry syrup is perfect for this low carb raspberry pomegranate cocktail, or a keto friendly raspberry Moscow mule! It tastes like sugar, measures like sugar, caramelizes like sugar, and it won’t crystallize after refrigerating it unlike other sweeteners. This part is optional, but fresh lemon juice helps increase the shelf life of your raspberry simple syrup! Allulose acts just like sugar, tastes like it, and it won’t crystallize when cold.

If you are wondering how to pay off debt and/or looking to improve your spending and set yourself on a path to financial success, a financial fast might be a good idea for you. For example, if seeing influencers and ads on Instagram makes you want to spend with reckless abandon, consider deleting the app for a few weeks or setting up a time limit to lessen your doom scrolling. There are several different budgeting methods, including the 50/30/20 rule, which suggests putting 50% toward what you need, 30% toward what you want, and 20% toward savings and debt repayment, and the envelope system, which has you set aside cash in different envelopes by category and allows you only to spend what’s in each envelope. Take time to focus on the things you really need to spend money on, like groceries and rent, and the things you could probably give up for a while, like fancy dinners out and extra-foam lattes.

If you love roasting root vegetables, heat to the grocery store to pick up some carrots and radishes for a super simple side that you can make on a sheet pan! Add a little bit of olive oil, some onions, fresh thyme, salt and pepper and if you have veggies that you’ll actually want to eat. – Fresh garlic packs a huge punch of flavor, and you could add this in toward the end of roasting if you want! Then add in your salt and pepper, fresh thyme, and olive oil.

No more hours spent hovering over the stove; use a pressure cooker to speed up the process for making sweet, buttery, Caramelized Onions in the Instant Pot. Personally I find it works best for me when it can actually make something delicious and save some time and have results that are much like those I would expect if cooking from a standard recipe, like these Caramelized Onions. After the five minutes of cooking at High Pressure, the pressure valve is released to let out steam and the cooking stops; for the quick version, it’s just a couple of minutes of final sauteing and you’re done and they can be used at this point… When I’m asked what I think is the best reason for an Instant Pot, I’ll often cite that I use it regularly as a rice cooker, it makes beautiful hard boiled eggs, it’s the only way I make pulled pork, and now…I can share that it makes the easiest and quickest Caramelized Onions.

Preparing caramelized onions in an electric pressure cooker (i.e. often the Instant Pot brand), results in the same deliciousness in a fraction of the time it would take to do them on the stove-top. After the five minutes of cooking at High Pressure, the pressure valve is released to let out steam and the cooking stops; for the quick version, it’s just a couple of minutes of final sauteing and you’re done and they can be used at this point… After the onions have been sautéed for a few minutes and turn a nice golden brown color, I add a quarter cup of water to them, cook it down until the water evaporates and a crust forms on the pan, then do that a second time being sure to scrap the bottom. When I’m asked what I think is the best reason for an Instant Pot, I’ll often cite that I use it regularly as a rice cooker, it makes beautiful hard boiled eggs, it’s the only way I make pulled pork, and now…I can share that it makes the easiest and quickest Caramelized Onions.

These powerful plants contain special compounds that can naturally help regulate our hormones and metabolism, but one of the most important benefits of adaptogens is the way they help our body adapt to stress and protect us from the damage it can cause on a cellular level. In a two-month randomized, double-blind study of 60 participants with mild stress, researchers found that those adults who were given a 240 mg of full-spectrum extract of ashwagandha root experienced a significant reduction of stress, anxiety and cortisol levels after two months as compared to the placebo group. In fact, KSM-66 Ashwagandha® has been clinically proven to help reduce stress, anxiety, cortisol levels, and stress-related food cravings while helping to improve memory and cognitive function. Other vitamins included like Vitamin D can help with mood and immunity, while antioxidant-acting vitamins like A, C, and E can reduce damage caused by free radicals, which can be high during times of stress.

Juicy shrimp, sirloin steak, and a creamy garlic parmesan sauce with spinach, lemon and spices. You can season your sauce and shrimp however you’d like, but our favorites are smoked paprika and some red pepper flakes for a little heat. When it’s time to serve, add some fresh parsley and parmesan cheese flakes on top if you want. Add in some of the butter to the pan, and season the shrimp with salt, pepper, smoked paprika and some red pepper flakes if desired.