Roasted Bourbon Sweet Potatoes Roasting creates a pleasant, slightly sweet flavor in many vegetables. It’s a simple cooking method that helps preserve nutrients and enhances flavors. Our relationship with vegetables has evolved over the years thanks to roasting. Previously, if we were to saute or steam vegetables, we found them to be mild and approachable; we were [...]
The Ultimate Nightcap We obviously advocate cooking with alcohol. It can be a lot of fun. But when kids are involved one needs to know the facts. Several years ago, we had a dear friend and her 4-year-old daughter over for dinner. We ended a great meal with a signature dessert of ours – Bourbon [...]
The Bacon Bourbon Chocolate Chip Cookie We really should not be left alone in the kitchen with a bottle of bourbon. Things happen. Weird things. Sometimes the weird things are also good things. And occasionally something great happens, like these Bacon Bourbon Chocolate Chip Cookies. Take the three best things you’ve ever had, and bake them into a [...]
Maple Bourbon Scallops Spring is the time of year around here when everyone taps trees and makes their own maple syrup. If you don’t know someone who was up all night tending their boiler, then you’re not a real New Englander. Spring is also the time of year we pull the grill out of storage [...]
Hammerstone’s Bourbon Slush Meteorological signs favor a historically hot summer for 2012. Experts are predicting that there’s a strong chance of breaking into the top 25 hottest on record. With this news in mind, it’s evident that a plan is needed. A plan on how to beat the impending summer heat. Success begins with preparation; [...]
Maple Bacon Bourbon Pecan Pie Our grandmother used to make the best pies. Of course, everyone’s grandmother made the best pies, but believe us when we say our grandmother made the world’s best pies. She made a killer sour cream apple, a delightfully complex peach rhubarb, and a lemon meringue that would knock your socks off – literally, we would [...]
Bourbon Pecan French Toast As you may well know, when we’re not busy making our famous whiskey stones, we’re in the kitchen. And one of our favorite times to be in the kitchen is when we prepare breakfast. We love French Toast here at Hammerstone’s Whiskey Disks, but then again, who doesn’t?! It’s a sweet [...]
Chili Chocolate Bourbon Cake In the early 1500s, Montezuma in his Mexico City palace drank chocolate daily, usually with red chili in it. Apparently the king knew that chili, in small amounts, amplifies and enriches the taste of chocolate. It appears that he had quite the palate. We’re no experts on pre-Columbian history, but we’re pretty [...]
Pancakes for breakfast? Amazing. Pancakes for dinner? A-friggin-mazing! I think I may have crossed the line. I fear I may have created a glitch in the Matrix. Because last night I made breakfast for dinner. Pancakes, to be specific. And to be even more specific, whiskey pancakes. Now to be fair, the eggs I used were free-range [...]
If you aren’t interested in wearing socks anymore, you’re in luck. Because our recipe for Bourbon Pecan Caramel Corn will knock’em right off. It’s true, bourbon does make everything better.
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