Vacation, a New Year, and Some Delicious Beer Bread

My goodness, I wrote this post well over a month ago and never got around to putting it up. Here it is, in all its neglected glory.

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Well, it's been a while, hasn't it? It seems like between the holidays, final exams and trying to stay sane, the last month or so has flown by.

We had a pretty relaxing holiday. We flew to Arizona to visit my Dad and had a lovely Christmas dinner with my Aunt and Uncle and all their kids and beautiful grandkids. We, of course, drove to the Grand Canyon to look down into it for 10-15 minutes and take some pictures and then the last two days we spent at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas and relaxed. The view from room's our terrace overlooked the famous (and beautiful) Belagio fountains, when we managed to pull ourselves away from relaxing in the beautiful hotel room we spent our time exploring the shops, other casinos, and of course the Ferrari dealership right on the strip (we also had the best Thai food EVER in a sketchy looking strip mall). All in all it was a wonderful trip, but one red eye flight and a train ride later, we're home and back to real life, cleaning, laundry and falling alseep watching TV on the couch.

Real Life:

So, I've been wanting to try this recipe for Honey Beer Bread for a few months and I didn't get around to it until just now. We went to a friend's house for low key New Years Eve (some nibbles, some Trivia and then we headed home at 10:30) and they happened to serve a version of the bread there, and man was it fantastic.

So here are some photos from my own attempt.

Yummmmm