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The Beer Lover's Table: Sausage Casserole with Wild Garlic Butter and Lager Sauce and The Kernel Dark Mild

Beer Lover's Table Claire Bullen Mild SE London The Kernel

The Beer Lover's Table: Sausage Casserole with Wild Garlic Butter and Lager Sauce and The Kernel Dark Mild

Every spring, my cooking is governed by a single objective: find as many ways to use wild garlic as possible. There are the staples I make every year – wild garlic pesto in vast quantities, irresistible cheddar and wild garlic American-style biscuits – and the yearly experiments and novelties (quesadillas and pierogi, soup and fried artichokes). Now added to the pantheon is this year’s latest entry: a humble sausage casserole, made memorable with a generous quantity of wild garlic butter. In search of a low-effort and high-reward Easter main a few weeks back, I landed on this dish: Here, delightfully herbal...

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The Beer Lover's Table: Aubergine Massaman Curry and Boxcar Brewery Double Dark Mild

Beer Lover's Table Boxcar Brew Co Claire Bullen East London London Mild

The Beer Lover's Table: Aubergine Massaman Curry and  Boxcar Brewery Double Dark Mild

If sourdough bread was very Lockdown 1, then Lockdown 3 looks more like one-pot cooking projects: long-simmered stews, tender meatballs, creamy pasta dishes. In the middle of a deep cold snap, the stove is the warmest place in the house, and standing in front of it for an extra hour or two has never felt so inviting.  Of course, there are other sensory pleasures to be had there, beyond the heat thrown off by the gas burners. If you’re making this Thai massaman curry, you can luxuriate in its beguiling, house-filling perfume right at the source. The fragrance is complex...

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