Cooking on the stovetop in a frying pan has a lot in common with painting a picture. You take all these separate elements and put them together in a certain order and at the end, when you plate up, you have a complete story. A frying pan is like an artist’s palette, where colours and flavours are mixed and combined to create something greater than the original components. Imagine creamy white leek, fiery red chilli, buttery crushed garlic, green, red and yellow capsicums (peppers), rich muddy-red chorizo, pink pork fillets, purple and white onion, copper saffron threads, shiny purple-skinned eggplants (aubergines), ruddy brown paprika, ruby-red ale, pearly white rice, green and black olives, vibrant yellow lemon, green herbs and there it is – your masterpiece gently simmering away on the stove awaiting to nourish, delight and excite all the senses.

List of Recipes

Dark ale lamb tagine

Chicken and leek pie

Beef beer bourguignon

Hoegaarden seafood risotto

Cockle and beer butter pasta

Stout and preserved lemon risotto

Chilli con carne

Crumbed sardines with sou’western pasta

Fish pie

Indian-style fish curry with Belgian ale

Spanish lentils with chorizo in Belgian ale

Mussels with fennel, leek and dark ale

Ale cassoulet with pork sausage

Tomato and rocket wheat beer risotto