BEER BREAD and BROWNIES

I have been on hyperdrive for the past few weeks and after an even longer week at work I decided to stay home Saturday night and Bake. Did we have dinner that night you ask? ...NO. We "sacrificed" our waistlines to the dessert gods and had not 1 but 2 bowls of Brownie A La Mode. These aren't your everyday brownies, but Ina's Outrageous Brownies (yes the same one's i so awkwardly told her I loved at the New York Food Show). These are so RICH you really only need 1 ... but I digress. As if the brownies weren't glutinous enough, I made my mom's beer bread Sunday afternoon to go with our Minestrone Soup. This bread is so easy. I usually use 1 can of Budweiser, but we still have some Sam Adams Oktoberfest in the kegerator so subbed that. I think I prefer the Bud, but have also made it with a honey wheat beer and that was good too.

3 Cups self-rising flour

2 Tbsp sugar

1 12 oz can beer

4 Tbsp melted butter

Mix together (this dough is very dense and sticky) and bake at 350 for about 20 min then brush/pour another 3 Tbsp melted butter over the top and bake another 25-30 min.

Best warm and if you can handle it with even more butter, but good to dip in soup or in a couple of days crumble over the top of a casserole or use as the "crust" to a pot pie.

I have my Thanksgiving menu planned out and am starting to think tablescape's so I will use Michael's camera ans take a couple of pics. Let me know what you gals are making - I'm sure it will be fantastic! Love to All